Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund Mubadala Funding Firm has raised its place in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Belief (IBIT), reporting possession of 14,721,917 shares valued at $565,616,051 as of March 31, 2026, in line with a 13F submitting launched at this time.
That marks a 16% enhance from the 12,702,323 shares the fund held on the finish of This autumn 2025.
The disclosure extends a now-unbroken accumulation streak that started in This autumn 2024, when Mubadala first disclosed bitcoin publicity price a minimum of $436 million. The fund added shares via a Q1 2025 submitting that confirmed 8,726,972 shares at $408.5 million, then surged to 12.7 million shares price $630.6 million by December 31, 2025 — a 46% bounce in a single quarter. Immediately’s submitting provides one other 2 million shares to that ledger, pushing the place previous the half-billion greenback mark for the third straight quarter.
Mubadala manages a worldwide portfolio exceeding $330 billion in property throughout know-how, healthcare, infrastructure, non-public fairness, and public markets, with its mandate centered on producing returns for the Abu Dhabi authorities whereas lowering the emirate’s dependence on oil revenues. Bitcoin, accessed via the regulated IBIT construction, has develop into one of many fund’s most seen public market positions.
As of This autumn 2024, IBIT was already Mubadala’s second-largest holding by a large margin, trailing solely a longer-term stake in Arm Holdings.
Abu Dhabi’s bitcoin investments
Abu Dhabi’s sovereign accumulation doesn’t cease at Mubadala. Al Warda Investments, an entity tied to the Abu Dhabi Funding Council — itself working underneath the Mubadala umbrella — has additionally been constructing an IBIT place, reporting 8.2 million shares price roughly $408 million at year-end 2025. The 2 Abu Dhabi autos mixed to carry greater than $1 billion in IBIT as of December 31, marking a milestone for Gulf Cooperation Council sovereign participation in regulated bitcoin merchandise.
The Q1 2026 submitting arrives towards a backdrop of broader institutional and governmental curiosity in bitcoin. Goldman Sachs disclosed roughly $2.36 billion in whole crypto publicity via IBIT and different autos, whereas Jane Avenue reported 20.3 million IBIT shares price $790 million at This autumn 2025 year-end.
On the sovereign entrance, Texas grew to become the primary U.S. state to buy bitcoin for a strategic reserve throughout the identical interval.
On an identical observe, new monetary disclosures present the Trump household belief purchased shares of a number of bitcoin-linked corporations — together with Coinbase, MARA Holdings and Technique — throughout the first quarter of 2026 because the administration advances a extra crypto-friendly coverage agenda.
The filings revealed hundreds of trades price between $220 million and $750 million general.
