Harvard College’s endowment has disclosed a $443 million stake in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Belief (IBIT), making the fund’s largest recognized fairness place a spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund.
In keeping with the college’s newest 13F submitting with the U.S. Securities and Change Fee, the funding fund held 6.8 million shares of IBIT as of the third quarter of 2025. The place accounts for simply over 20% of its reported U.S.-listed public fairness holdings.
Institutional traders, akin to Harvard, usually keep away from exchange-traded funds, as a substitute favoring personal fairness, actual property, and direct investments. That makes this transfer into IBIT particularly notable.
For context, Harvard’s total endowment exceeds $55 billion, that means the IBIT funding represents lower than 1% of whole belongings. Nonetheless, it ranks Harvard among the many prime 20 holders of the fund based on Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas.
The submitting reveals that Harvard College’s endowment is investing in bitcoin. It comes at a time when the value of the cryptocurrency plunged greater than 5% up to now week to round $96,000.
IBIT is the world’s largest spot bitcoin ETF, with almost $75 billion in web belongings based on SoSoValue knowledge.