{"id":525685,"date":"2025-12-08T12:00:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T12:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crypto-news-flash.com\/?p=1237773"},"modified":"2025-12-08T12:00:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T12:00:42","slug":"harvard-triples-its-bitcoin-investment-now-allocating-21-btc-over-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2025\/12\/08\/harvard-triples-its-bitcoin-investment-now-allocating-21-btc-over-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard Triples Its Bitcoin Investment, Now Allocating 2:1 BTC Over Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"eth-editorial-banner\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"eth-editorial-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crypto-news-flash.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cnf2-scaled-1-1-1.png\" alt=\"Crypto News Flash\"> <span class=\"eth-editorial-text\">All news is rigorously fact-checked and reviewed by leading blockchain experts and seasoned industry insiders.<\/span> <\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Harvard University has increased its Bitcoin (BTC) holdings from $117 million to $443 million in the third quarter of 2025.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>This implies that Harvard has more money in Bitcoin than in any other asset, including gold.&nbsp;<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<p>Chief Investment Officer (CIO) at Bitwise Asset Management, Matt Hougan, has disclosed that Harvard doubled down on its Bitcoin investment in the third quarter of 2025, adding $326 million worth of the asset to its portfolio. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crypto-news-flash.com\/harvard-leads-in-bitcoin-etf-purchase\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">detailed<\/a> in our earlier post, its holdings increased from $117 million to $443 million within the period.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1237774\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1237774\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1237774 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crypto-news-flash.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot_20251208-101008.jpg\" alt=\"Bitcoin \" width=\"632\" height=\"513\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1237774\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Matt_Hougan\/status\/1997884927141138728\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Matt Hougan on X<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Comparatively, its allocation to the gold ETF was increased by $133 million within the period. Mathematically, its holdings moved from $102 million to $235 million. With this, Hougan explained that Harvard\u2019s allocation to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crypto-news-flash.com\/what-is-bitcoin-btc-history-and-beginner-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bitcoin<\/a> is 2 to 1 over gold.<\/p>\n<p>Fascinatingly, other reports have confirmed that Harvard has more money in the BlackRock-issued spot BTC ETF (iShares Bitcoin Trust or IBIT) than it has in any other stock. It is worth noting that the university has a stake in other companies, including Microsoft, Amazon, and Nvidia.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on this, Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas noted that getting Harvard or Yale involved in a particular ETF is a good validation. While almost half a billion is labeled as a big investment, Balchunas highlighted that this is a mere 1% of Harvard\u2019s total endowment. Currently, it is ranked among the 16th largest IBIT holders.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1237781\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1237781\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1237781 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crypto-news-flash.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot_20251208-101207.jpg\" alt=\"Bitcoin \" width=\"621\" height=\"780\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1237781\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EricBalchunas\/status\/1989493893742657785?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Eric Balchunas on X<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Bitcoin Price and ETF Performance Continue to Struggle<\/h2>\n<p>Despite Harvard and other institutions continuing to accumulate BTC, its price is still struggling to stage a rebound to recapture the $100k level. At the time of writing, BTC was trading at $92k and recorded a <span><b>3%<\/b><\/span> surge in the last 24 hours and <span><b>6%<\/b><\/span> in the last seven days.<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, December 5, Bitcoin ETFs also experienced&nbsp;net outflow of $1.11 billion. Bloomberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-12-05\/blackrock-bitcoin-btc-etf-loses-2-7-billion-in-longest-outflows-run-ibit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">disclosed<\/a> that more than $2.7 billion left the IBIT fund in five weeks through November 28. On Thursday, December 4, $113 million exited the fund.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, institutions, including those from Wall Street, have also lined up to invest in Bitcoin. Brown University has revealed that its BTC holdings are currently worth around $14 million.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crypto-news-flash.com\/texas-buys-10m-in-bitcoin-at-87k-price-point-marking-first-ever-state-level-btc-reserve\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mentioned<\/a> in our previous news story, Texas has purchased $10 million worth of Bitcoin at $87k, becoming the first US state to hold the asset in its treasury reserve. According to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crypto-news-flash.com\/texas-bitcoin-reserve-bill-nears-final-approval-a-crypto-first-for-u-s-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previous update<\/a>, the Senate Bill that backed the establishment of this reserve was amended to ensure that assets are monitored for 24 months before inclusion.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crypto-news-flash.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All news is rigorously fact-checked and reviewed by leading blockchain experts and seasoned industry insiders. Harvard University has increased its Bitcoin (BTC) holdings from $117 million to $443 million in the third quarter of 2025. This implies that Harvard has more money in Bitcoin than in any other asset, including gold.&nbsp; Chief Investment Officer (CIO) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":525686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[31,1182,118,15902,25],"class_list":{"0":"post-525685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin","8":"category-other","9":"tag-bitcoin","10":"tag-bitcoin-etf","11":"tag-btc","12":"tag-harvard","13":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}