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Harvard exits bitcoin ETF stake untouched in Q2 after cutting it 43% in the prior quarter
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Harvard University's endowment reported an unchanged position in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) at the end of the second quarter, pausing two consecutive quarters of selling, according to its latest 13F filing.
Key facts
- Bitcoin is trading at about $63,000, 's Bitcoin Price page, down nearly 30% year-to-date and trading at roughly half its October 2025 high above $126,000
- Morgan Stanley reported about 16.5 million IBIT shares worth $548.6 million as of June 30, down from 17.3 million shares worth $663.3 million three months earlier
- Space Exploration Technologies (SPCX) was Harvard's largest holding by a wide margin, at 12,935,100 shares worth $2.21 billion, or 52% of the total disclosed holdings
- Tudor Investment Corporation, the macro fund founded by Paul Tudor Jones, reported 688,529 IBIT shares worth $22.9 million, an increase of 109,446 shares over the quarter
Summary
Per the filing, Harvard Management Company reported 3,044,612 shares of IBIT worth $101.4 million as of June 30, the same share count it disclosed three months earlier. Harvard held 6,813,612 IBIT shares at the end of September 2025, which it cut to 5,353,612 in the fourth quarter of last year and then to 3,044,612 in the first quarter of 2026. The endowment now holds more value in gold-related products than in bitcoin funds. IBIT ranked 11th among Harvard's 19 disclosed positions and made up 2.4% of the $4.26 billion portfolio's value.