Cathie Wood keeps low profile in 2026

Cathie Wood has been really quiet since the beginning of 2026.

Although it’s only been ten days into the new year but one cannot help but notice the ARK Invest CEO not showing up as a headline in crypto circles.

Until a few days ahead of Dec. 31, Wood was out shopping and staking up her favourite crypto stocks like Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) and Robinhood (NASDAQ: HOOD).

However, so far, her firm has not increased its positions in any of them.

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Wood’s purchases in 2025 often coincided with dips, either in the broader crypto market or the individual stocks.

In fact, one of her last purchases in 2025 was in a couple of crypto stocks that were sliding down.

On Dec. 16, Wood raked up around $59 million worth of shares across categories. Among the purchases were $16.3 million worth of shares in $10.8 million in Coinbase, Circle Internet Group (Nasdaq: CRCL), and about $5.2 million in Bullish (Nasdaq: BLSH).

ARK has also picked up about $17 million in Tom Lee’s Bitmine Immersion Technologies and around $9.9 million in CoreWeave.

All the crypto stocks were experiencing a slide that was unrelated to Bitcoin’s then price. In fact, Bitcoin was relatively stable while crypto stocks tumbled.

Wood has been a crypto bull for quite some time. However, it was one of her recent appearances on CNBC that made big headlines.

Like any other analyst, Wood had also made a bold prediction for the king of crypto: Bitcoin would reach $150,000 by 2030.

At one point, it didn’t seem that difficult to achieve. Especially when Bitcoin touched $126,000 at the beginning of October 2025.

However, after the infamous Oct.10 flash crash, even Wood’s optimism wobbled.

On Nov. 6, Wood appeared on CNBC to share her firm’s revised outlook for Bitcoin in 2030. ARK Invest lowered the price target from $1.5 billion to $1.2 billion.

However, Wood didn’t attribute the change to the flash crash event. Instead, she explained the rising popularity of stablecoins as the main reason. Later, she added that the price performance of gold was also a catalyst behind the change in predicted target.

For Wood, 2026 didn’t begin with flashy crypto purchases. However, she has picked up a few other stakes while dumping a few others.

As per Cathie’s Ark, an online tracker of ARK Invest’s trading activity across funds, some of her recent purchases included:

• Tech stocks – Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO),

• Aviation – Archer Aviation (NYSE: ACHR)

• Machinery – Deere & Co (NYSE: DE)

• Biotech – Beam Therapeutics (NASDAQ: BEAM), Intellia Therapeutics (NASDAQ: NTLA), and others.

Although Wood has not made any crypto purchases, she did share her crypto outlook for 2026.

In a recent podcast, Wood discussed last year’s market volatility and crashes that defined crypto. However, she expressed optimism for the coming days.

Her confidence was renewed mostly on the hopes of higher institutional adoption of crypto and increasing regulatory clarity.

However, it was also pegged on the belief that President Donald Trump was not going to sit and be a “lame duck” for the last years of his second term.

He wants to have one or two more productive years,” Wood said.

She predicted that Trump, along with crypto and AI czar David Sacks, will be ensuring that the regulations are in place, especially with the de-minimis tax exemption. As per this provision, all small transactions in crypto that are between $200 and $600 would not attract tax liability.

Another thing that Trump would do, as per Wood, is start buying Bitcoin for the country’s strategic reserve.

As for her own buying activity across crypto stocks, it is still in the dark.

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This story was originally published by TheStreet on Jan 10, 2026, where it first appeared in the MARKETS section. Add TheStreet as a Preferred Source by clicking here.