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Emory University Doubles Bitcoin ETF Holdings In Q3 2025


Emory University, a private research university in the US state of Georgia, has doubled down on its bullish Bitcoin play in Grayscale Investments BTC exchange-traded fund (ETF).

Emory increased its stake in the Grayscale Bitcoin Mini Trust ETF to more than one million shares, valued at $51.8 million, according to to the quarterly report Form 13F filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday.

Since the second quarter of the year, the university has almost doubled its position in the Bitcoin ETF, adding 487,636 shares valued at about $25 million.

Emory became one of the first universities in the United States to report a stake in a Bitcoin ETF in October 2024, initially. disclosing a $15 million stake in the Grayscale Bitcoin Mini Trust ETF.

Bitcoin ETF vs. Bitcoin Mini Trust ETF

launched in July 2024, Grayscale’s Bitcoin Mini Trust ETF – trading under the ticker symbol BTC – is a spin-off of Grayscale’s original Bitcoin Trust ETF (GBTC), which started trading in January 2024.

While the original GBTC ETF charges an annual management fee of 1.5%, the Mini Trust ETF is positioned as Grayscale’s “lowest spot Bitcoin fund” with a fee of 0.15%. The fund was launched through an initial seeding process, which involves the distribution of 10% of the underlying Bitcoin of GBTC.

In addition to nearly $52 million in Grayscale’s Bitcoin Mini Trust ETF, Emory University owns 4,450 shares of BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin ETF (IBIT), valued at about $290,000. The university disclosed IBIT investment in Q2 and has not made any changes since.

An excerpt from Emory University’s Q3 quarterly report with Bitcoin ETF holdings. Source: SEC

Grayscale’s Bitcoin ETFs faced the biggest investor outflows among BTC ETFs, losing more than $21.3 billion in 2024, according to to CoinShares data published in January.

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On the other hand, BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin ETF contributed to at least 80% of total Bitcoin ETF inflows last year, estimated at $48.7 billion.

In 2025, Grayscale’s Bitcoin ETFs saw $2.5 billion in outflows, while iShares Bitcoin ETFs attracted $37.4 billion in inflows. according to to the latest CoinShares update.