Overview
- Harvard’s Q1 2026 SEC 13F filing reports it sold its full roughly $87 million position in an Ethereum exchange-traded fund that it first disclosed in Q4 2025.
- The filing also shows Harvard reduced its BlackRock iShares Bitcoin Trust position from about 5.35 million shares to about 3.04 million shares, a sale of roughly 2.3 million IBIT shares.
- Harvard still held about 3,044,612 IBIT shares valued at roughly $117 million as of the March 31, 2026 reporting date.
- The 13F disclosure gives no explanation for the trades and does not show intraday activity or the endowment’s motives, so the filing signals a change in holdings without stating intent.
- The moves come as Ether has fallen more than 50% from its August 2025 peak and after leadership changes and staff departures at the Ethereum Foundation, which together make ETF exposure and token economics key issues for institutional investors and could affect future ETF flows.