Ah, Harvard! The venerable institution where the air is thick with ambition and the corridors whisper secrets of wealth. It seems that our dear Ivy League establishment has decided to don a new cloak-one woven from Ethereum rather than Bitcoin.
In a move reminiscent of a grand theatrical performance, the Harvard endowment has pranced into the world of Ethereum (ETH), investing a staggering $86.8 million in BlackRock’s iShares Ethereum Trust ETF. This financial escapade took place in the fourth quarter of 2025, as revealed by documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission-an august body that surely chuckles at such follies.
But wait! What of Bitcoin, the once-favored darling of investment? The Harvard Management Company, in a rather dramatic twist akin to a tragic hero’s fall, has trimmed its Bitcoin (BTC) ETF holdings from a robust 6,813,612 shares in Q3 to a mere 5,353,612 by Q4. As of December 31st, those dwindling shares were valued at $265.8 million, a sum that would make even Scrooge McDuck raise an eyebrow.
Initially, the endowment had proudly announced a $126.04 million BTC ETF investment back in August, which ballooned to a dazzling $443 million by the third quarter. Alas, how the mighty have fallen! As the crypto market continues its slow waltz into oblivion-Bitcoin now languishing at $67,936, down over 2% in the last week and a staggering 29% in the last month-one can only imagine the melancholic strains of a dirge playing in the background.
Poor Ethereum has not fared much better, suffering an even more grievous fate, down 4% in the past week and a heart-wrenching 40% over the past 30 days, trading now at a meager $1,978. It seems that the crypto kingdom is in disarray, much like a court without a king.
And let us not forget the other players in this grand drama-Brown and Emory universities have also dipped their toes into the turbulent waters of crypto ETFs, while Dartmouth has proclaimed investments of over $10 million in the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF and nearly $5 million in Grayscale’s Ethereum Mini Trust ETF. A veritable frenzy of fiscal folly, one might say!
“Weakness in technology,” they mutter, as if that could explain this intricate dance of dollars.
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