Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest has filed to create a bitcoin ETF

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Ark Invest – the firm run by star stock picker Cathie Wood – has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to create a bitcoin exchange-traded fund, CNBC first reported on Monday.

The ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF will track the S&P Bitcoin index and trade on the Cboe BZX Exchange under the ticker ARKB. Its investment objective is quite simple: track the price of bitcoin.

A prominent bitcoin bull, Wood has been loading up on bitcoin-related investments such as Grayscale Bitcoin Trust and Coinbase Global over the last few months.

Ark's proposed bitcoin ETF joins a long list of over a dozen applications waiting for approval from the SEC. The agency for its part has recently postponed another decision to approve a bitcoin ETF.

Bitcoin has gained mainstream adoption of late, soaring above a market capitalization of $1 trillion. It has however been trading rangebound in the past days at just half of its $64,000 peak in April.

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