{"id":598046,"date":"2026-05-12T12:52:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/wells-fargo-lifts-ether-etf-holdings-in-q1-as-bitcoin-positions-shift\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T12:52:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:52:44","slug":"wells-fargo-lifts-ether-etf-holdings-in-q1-as-bitcoin-positions-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/wells-fargo-lifts-ether-etf-holdings-in-q1-as-bitcoin-positions-shift\/","title":{"rendered":"Wells Fargo lifts Ether ETF holdings in Q1 as Bitcoin positions shift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy1pbWFnZXMuY3RtZWRpYS5pby9tZWRpYS9hcnRpY2xlLWNvdmVycy9tYW4td2l0aC1ob2xvLWdyYXBoaWNzLmpwZw==.jpg\" alt=\"Wells Fargo lifts Ether ETF holdings in Q1 as Bitcoin positions shift\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wells Fargo lifted Ether ETF exposure while rotating Bitcoin holdings and sharply increasing its Strategy stake, per its Q1 2026 13F filings.<\/p>\n<p>Wells Fargo reported larger positions in Ether exchange-traded funds in the first quarter while reshuffling its Bitcoin ETF holdings across several products, according to its latest Securities and Exchange Commission filing.<\/p>\n<p>The bank said it raised its holdings in Ether (ETH) ETFs, including BlackRock\u2019s iShares Ethereum Trust ETF (ETHA) and the Bitwise Ethereum ETF (ETHW), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/Archives\/edgar\/data\/72971\/000007297126000261\/xslForm13F_X02\/13F_3_2026.xml\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">according<\/a> to its latest Form 13F filing released on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>ETHA rose 63.5% from about 672,600 shares in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/Archives\/edgar\/data\/72971\/000007297126000123\/xslForm13F_X02\/13F_12_2025.xml\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Q4 2025<\/a> to roughly 1.1 million shares in Q1 2026, while ETHW increased by 37% from about 186,800 to more than 257,000 shares, showing a broad-based increase across Ether-linked funds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/wells-fargo-ether-etf-boost-q1-2026-btc-rotation\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wells Fargo lifted Ether ETF exposure while rotating Bitcoin holdings and sharply increasing its Strategy stake, per its Q1 2026 13F filings. Wells Fargo reported larger positions in Ether exchange-traded funds in the first quarter while reshuffling its Bitcoin ETF holdings across several products, according to its latest Securities and Exchange Commission filing. The bank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":598047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-598046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598046","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=598046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}