Harvard bets on Bitcoin: triples its bet on BTC and doubles on gold
The richest university in the United States massively boosted its crypto and gold positions in the third quarter of 2025. Harvard increased its bitcoin holdings to $443 million, up from $117 million three months earlier, while doubling its gold allocation to $235 million.
Harvard is betting big on BlackRock’s IBIT
Did you know that Harvard University ranks first in the list of richest universities in the world with an endowment currently worth $56.9 billion? He owes it to the support of personalities like Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates. So it has the means to invest in research… but also to grow its funds.
The institution thus made a strong choice in the third quarter of 2025: it acquired 6.8 million shares in BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF (IBIT), compared to 1.9 million at the end of June.
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A 257% increase that increased the position’s value to $443 million at the time of purchase, making IBIT the largest line in the university’s reported portfolio. The line has since fallen to around $364.4 million due to the decline in the price of Bitcoin – and therefore the ETF.
This allocation thus placed his investments in Bitcoin ahead of investments in Microsoft, Amazon or even a gold ETF. It should be noted that the university never invested in Bitcoin before the second quarter of 2025, where it started with $117 million.
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Twice as much on Bitcoin as Gold for Harvard
If the timing of his first purchase was remarkable, as Harvard accumulated BTC during the Summer 2025 dip, the timing of his 2nd purchase is not ideal, since then Bitcoin has undergone a major correction. But the university certainly wants to invest in the long term.
Also Harvard at the same time increased its exposure to gold through the SPDR Gold Shares ETF (GLD). The fund now holds 661,391 shares of GLD, valued at $235 million, up from 333,000 shares in the previous quarter. Defense strategy; However, Harvard ended up assigning bitcoin twice as much as gold.
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