{"id":599090,"date":"2026-05-14T12:54:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/jpmorgan-lifts-bitcoin-etf-exposure-in-q1-led-by-blackrocks-ibit\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T12:54:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:54:59","slug":"jpmorgan-lifts-bitcoin-etf-exposure-in-q1-led-by-blackrocks-ibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/jpmorgan-lifts-bitcoin-etf-exposure-in-q1-led-by-blackrocks-ibit\/","title":{"rendered":"JPMorgan lifts Bitcoin ETF exposure in Q1, led by BlackRock\u2019s IBIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy1pbWFnZXMuY3RtZWRpYS5pby9tZWRpYS9hcnRpY2xlLWNvdmVycy9oaS1iaXRjb2luLWV0Zi1pcy1ub3ctc3VwZXJpb3Itb3Zlci1kb2xsYXItMS5qcGc=.jpg\" alt=\"JPMorgan lifts Bitcoin ETF exposure in Q1, led by BlackRock\u2019s IBIT\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The bank raised its reported IBIT holdings by 174% in the first quarter while also adding exposure to select Bitcoin, Ether and Solana-linked funds.<\/p>\n<p>JPMorgan Chase increased its reported holdings in several Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the first quarter, led by a 174% jump in its position in BlackRock\u2019s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), according to a 13F filing published Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The bank increased its position in IBIT from around 3 million shares in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/Archives\/edgar\/data\/19617\/000001961726000083\/0000019617-26-000083-index.htm\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Q4 2025<\/a> to 8.3 million shares, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/Archives\/edgar\/data\/19617\/000001961726000225\/0000019617-26-000225-index.htm\">according<\/a> to the filing.<\/p>\n<p>The increase added about $162 million in reported value, based on filing data, despite Bitcoin price falling by more than 22% in Q1, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coinglass.com\/today\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">according<\/a> to CoinGlass data.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/jpmorgan-bitcoin-etf-buy-blackrock-ibit-q1-2026\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bank raised its reported IBIT holdings by 174% in the first quarter while also adding exposure to select Bitcoin, Ether and Solana-linked funds. JPMorgan Chase increased its reported holdings in several Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the first quarter, led by a 174% jump in its position in BlackRock\u2019s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":599091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-599090","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\/599090","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=599090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}