Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest files for two crypto index ETFs tied to CoinDesk 20
Yahoo Finance·2026-01-27 00:51
ARK Invest, the asset management firm led by Cathie Wood, has filed with U.S. regulators to launch two new cryptocurrency exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that would track the CoinDesk 20 — a benchmark of the most liquid digital assets, including bitcoin, ether, solana, XRP and cardano. Rather than holding crypto directly, the proposed ETFs would rely on cash-settled, regulated futures contracts to mimic the index's daily performance. While one fund will track the CoinDesk 20, the other will track that inde ...