Overview
- Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala increased its iShares Bitcoin Trust stake 16% in Q1 to 14.7 million shares worth about $566 million, marking a fifth straight quarter of buying.
- Harvard Management Company cut its Bitcoin ETF holdings by 43% to 3,044,612 shares and exited BlackRock’s Ethereum ETF.
- Dartmouth disclosed about $14 million in crypto ETFs, including roughly $7.7 million in IBIT plus smaller positions in Grayscale’s Ethereum Staking ETF and Bitwise’s Solana Staking ETF.
- Other moves included Barclays reporting 4.46 million IBIT shares, Hong Kong’s Laurore trimming its stake by about 22%, and Abu Dhabi Investment Council holding 8.2 million shares steady.
- The filings provide a delayed snapshot of Q1 positions and underscore ETFs as the main gateway, with BlackRock’s fund holding more than 600,000 Bitcoin in April.