{"id":213351,"date":"2026-08-14T21:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T21:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=213351"},"modified":"2026-08-14T21:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T21:17:12","slug":"abu-dhabi-sovereign-wealth-funds-keep-big-bitcoin-positions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=213351","title":{"rendered":"Abu Dhabi Sovereign Wealth Funds Keep Big Bitcoin Positions\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bitcoin Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n

Abu Dhabi Sovereign Wealth Funds Keep Big Bitcoin Positions\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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Bitcoin is the most important asset in two of Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth funds, according to regulatory filings.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Abu Dhabi\u2019s Mubadala Investment Company disclosed<\/a> Friday that it held a $490 million stake in BlackRock\u2019s iShares Bitcoin Trust \u2014 the second-largest single holding across its entire 13F portfolio.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And a Thursday filing from the Abu Dhabi Investment Council, another state-run fund, revealed<\/a> a $273.6 million position in the popular Bitcoin exchange-traded fund. The stake is the biggest position in its portfolio.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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JUST IN: UAE sovereign wealth funds Mubadala and Abu Dhabi Investment Council report owning a combined $763.7 million of BlackRocks Bitcoin ETF pic.twitter.com\/OOnptHhlTA<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine) August 14, 2026<\/a>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Both wealth funds\u2019 position in Bitcoin is unchanged since last quarter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, blockchain analytics firm Arkham Intelligence attributed<\/a> approximately 6,782 Bitcoins \u2014 worth roughly $453.6 million at the time of its analysis \u2014 to wallets connected to Bitcoin mining activity linked to the UAE\u2019s Royal Group.<\/p>\n

The findings highlight a distinction between how the UAE has built its bitcoin position compared with other governments known to hold large amounts of the asset. Countries such as the United States hold substantial Bitcoin reserves that largely originated from law enforcement seizures.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The UAE\u2019s holdings, by contrast, stem primarily from domestic mining activity rather than confiscated assets.<\/p>\n

Since the SEC approved a slew of Bitcoin funds in January 2024, major firms have been able to buy exposure to the asset via shares of the regulated vehicles that trade on stock exchanges.\u00a0<\/p>\n

BlackRock\u2019s IBIT is the most successful crypto ETF: The fund has received more cash than any other crypto ETF and currently has $47.3 billion in assets under management.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Pension funds and U.S. states have all bought exposure to Bitcoin via the ETFs, along with more traditional investments like tech stocks and other U.S. equities.<\/p>\n

This post Abu Dhabi Sovereign Wealth Funds Keep Big Bitcoin Positions\u00a0<\/a> first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine<\/a> and is written by Mathew Di Salvo<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bitcoin Magazine Abu Dhabi Sovereign Wealth Funds Keep Big Bitcoin Positions\u00a0 Bitcoin is the most important asset in two of Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth funds, according to regulatory filings.\u00a0 Abu Dhabi\u2019s Mubadala Investment Company disclosed Friday that it held a $490 million stake in BlackRock\u2019s iShares Bitcoin Trust \u2014 the second-largest single holding across its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":213352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=213351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/213352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}