Emory College Doubles Bitcoin ETF Holdings In Q3 2025

Emory College, a non-public analysis college within the US state of Georgia, has doubled down on its bullish Bitcoin play in Grayscale Investments BTC exchange-traded fund (ETF).

Emory boosted its holdings within the Grayscale Bitcoin Mini Belief ETF to over 1 million shares, valued at about $51.8 million, in accordance to the quarterly Kind 13F report filed with the Securities and Change Fee on Wednesday.

Because the second quarter, the college has doubled its place within the Bitcoin ETF, including 487,636 shares valued at about $25 million.

Emory grew to become one of many first US universities to report holdings in a Bitcoin ETF in October 2024, initially disclosing a $15 million stake within the Grayscale Bitcoin Mini Belief ETF.

Bitcoin ETF versus Bitcoin Mini Belief ETF

Launched in July 2024, Grayscale’s Bitcoin Mini Belief ETF — buying and selling below the ticker image BTC — is a derivative of Grayscale’s authentic Bitcoin Belief ETF (GBTC), which debuted buying and selling in January 2024.

Whereas the unique GBTC ETF fees a 1.5% annual administration price, the Mini Belief ETF is positioned as Grayscale’s “lowest-cost spot Bitcoin fund” with a price of 0.15%. The fund was launched via an preliminary seeding course of, involving the distribution of 10% of GBTC’s underlying Bitcoin.

Along with virtually $52 million in Grayscale’s Bitcoin Mini Belief ETF, Emory College holds 4,450 shares of BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin ETF (IBIT), valued at about $290,000. The college disclosed the IBIT funding in Q2 and has made no modifications.

Grayscale’s Bitcoin ETFs have confronted the biggest investor outflows amongst BTC ETFs, shedding greater than $21.3 billion in 2024, in accordance to CoinShares knowledge launched in January.

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However, BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin ETFs contributed to a minimum of 80% of complete Bitcoin ETF inflows final yr, estimated at $48.7 billion.

In 2025, Grayscale’s Bitcoin ETFs have seen $2.5 billion in outflows, whereas iShares Bitcoin ETFs have attracted $37.4 billion of inflows, in accordance to the newest CoinShares replace.