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 keeping with a 13F submitting launched right this moment.
That marks a 16% improve 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 not less than $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% leap in a single quarter. At present’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 world portfolio exceeding $330 billion in belongings throughout expertise, 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 turn out to be 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 in opposition to a backdrop of broader institutional and governmental curiosity in bitcoin. Goldman Sachs disclosed roughly $2.36 billion in complete 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 turned the primary U.S. state to buy bitcoin for a strategic reserve throughout the identical interval.
On an identical be aware, new monetary disclosures present the Trump household belief purchased shares of a number of bitcoin-linked firms — together with Coinbase, MARA Holdings and Technique — in the course of 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.
