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Harvard College boosted its publicity to Bitcoin by means of BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin ETF (IBIT) by 3.6x within the third quarter to virtually $443 million, making it a bigger place than its stakes in Amazon and Microsoft.

Its newest submitting with the US Securities and Alternate Fee exhibits the world’s largest tutorial endowment held 6.8 million shares in BlackRock’s IBIT, up 257% from 1.9 million in June, making the Bitcoin fund its single largest US-listed funding, up from fifth beforehand. The place now additionally surpasses its allocation to the SPDR Gold Belief.

The transfer is a placing present of confidence in Bitcoin from the world’s largest tutorial endowment. Institutional buyers like Harvard usually favor non-public fairness, actual property, and different various property over ETFs, making the endowment’s rising publicity to BlackRock’s Bitcoin product particularly notable.

”It’s nearly as good a validation as an ETF can get,” stated Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas on X. “It’s tremendous uncommon/troublesome to get an endowment to chunk on an ETF- esp a Harvard or Yale,”

Simply checked and yeah $IBIT is now Harvard’s largest place in its 13F and its greatest place improve in Q3. It is tremendous uncommon/troublesome to get an endowment to chunk on an ETF- esp a Harvard or Yale, it is nearly as good a validation as an ETF can get. That stated, half a billion is a… https://t.co/oTiSL29llB pic.twitter.com/yw0tRcD1ad

— Eric Balchunas (@EricBalchunas) November 15, 2025

The stake makes Harvard the Sixteenth-largest holder of BlackRock’s IBIT.

IBIT Accounts For Over 20% Of Harvard’s Portfolio

The IBIT funding now account for simply over 20% of the college’s US-listed public fairness holdings.

It’s unclear from the submitting how a lot the educational endowment spent to amass its IBIT holdings. Nonetheless, the worth of its complete shares have dropped in current months following a decline in IBIT’s share worth. 

IBIT share worth (Supply: Google Finance)

Over the previous month, IBIT’s share worth has plummeted over 12%, information from Google Finance exhibits. It continued this downtrend prior to now 24 hours, when it dropped greater than 3%. 

That’s an identical motion seen in Bitcoin’s worth, which IBIT tracks, throughout the identical interval. Information from CoinMarketCap exhibits that the most important crypto by market cap plunged over 11% prior to now month, however solely a fraction of a share within the final 24 hours.

IBIT One Of The US Spot Bitcoin ETFs On A 3-Day Outflows Streak

The submitting from Harvard exhibits that the college is investing in Bitcoin, with US spot BTC ETFs now providing buyers a standard automobile to get publicity to the crypto. Concerning its option to solely put money into IBIT even whereas there are different related merchandise available in the market, the transfer could possibly be on account of the truth that IBIT is the most important spot Bitcoin ETF by cumulative inflows.

Since launching final yr, IBIT has collected $63.789 billion, Farside Investor information exhibits. That is considerably greater than the next-biggest fund, Constancy’s FBTC, with its $11.923 billion in cumulative inflows.  

IBIT is, nonetheless, on a 3-day inflows streak amid a broader crypto market hunch. Its greatest outflows have been seen on Friday, when buyers pulled $463.1 million from the fund. Different spot BTC ETFs are on 3-day outflow streaks as properly, specifically Constancy’s FBTC and Grayscale’s GBTC.

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