Meme Insider
The crypto timeline lit up yesterday when @MrWhale dropped one of the most bullish pieces of news we’ve seen all cycle:
Harvard University now holds $442.8 million worth of Bitcoin through BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), according to the university’s latest 13F filing.
Yes, you read that right — the same Harvard that’s been around since 1636, the richest university in the world with a $53+ billion endowment, just went heavy on Bitcoin.
The filing shows Harvard Management Company owned 6,813,612 shares of IBIT as of September 30, 2025, valued at roughly $443 million at the time (numbers vary slightly depending on the exact pricing date used).
That position alone makes IBIT Harvard’s largest disclosed holding in the entire 13F — bigger than many of their traditional equity positions.
And get this: they increased their IBIT stake by 257% quarter-over-quarter.
This isn’t some tiny speculative bet. This is the bluest of blue-chip institutions saying, loud and clear, that Bitcoin belongs in a serious portfolio.
For context, a 13F is a mandatory quarterly SEC filing that reveals what large investment managers are holding in U.S. equities and now, thanks to the spot Bitcoin ETFs launched in 2024, it also shows direct Bitcoin exposure through vehicles like IBIT, GBTC, FBTC, etc.
When an endowment as conservative and influential as Harvard’s steps in at this size, it forces every other university, pension fund, and sovereign wealth fund to pay attention.
This is the exact kind of “smart money” validation that kicks off the next leg of the bull market.
Bitcoin pumps first.
Then Ethereum and Layer-1s.
Then the real fun begins — money rotates into Solana, Base, and every decent meme coin with a pulse.
We’ve seen this movie before. Institutional Bitcoin adoption is the spark, and meme season is the explosion.
Harvard just handed us the match.
Buckle up.
