Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Investment Company has increased its position in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), reporting ownership of 14,721,917 shares valued at $565,616,051 as of March 31, 2026, according to a 13F filing. released today.
This represents an increase of 16% from the 12,702,323 shares that the fund held at the end of Q4 2025.
The reveal adds to that already unsettling intensity he started in Q4 2024, when Mubadala first disclosed the disclosure of bitcoin which is about $436 million. The fund added shares through a Q1 2025 filing that showed 8,726,972 shares at $408.5 million, then increased to 12.7 million shares worth $630.6 million by December 31, 2025 – a 46% jump in one quarter. Today’s filing adds another 2 million shares to the book, pushing the position past half a billion dollars for the third straight quarter.
Mubadala manages the world record than $330 billion in investments in technology, health, infrastructure, business, and public markets, and his role was focused on reimbursing the government of Abu Dhabi and reducing the emirate’s dependence on the economy. Bitcoin, accessed through the IBIT system, has become one of the most visible assets in the public market.
As of Q4 2024, IBIT was already second only to Mubadala in terms of size, only trailing Arm Holdings’ long-standing stake.
Bitcoin currency of Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi’s accumulation does not stop at Mubadala. Al Warda Investments, an organization attached to the Abu Dhabi Investment Council – itself operating under the umbrella of Mubadala – has been rebuilding the IBIT site, reporting 8.2 million shares worth approximately $ 408 million by the end of the year 2025. The two Abu Dhabi vehicles combined to hold more than $ 1 billion in IBIT as of December 31 thanks to the Gulf of Cooperation Council agreement. medicine.
The Q1 2026 filing comes against a backdrop of institutional and government interest in bitcoin. Goldman Sachs to be revealed about $2.36 billion in total exposure to crypto through IBIT and other vehicles, while Jane Street report 20.3 million shares of IBIT worth $790 million in Q4 2025 year-end.
On independence, Texas became the first state in the US to purchase bitcoin as an instant escrow.
Likewise, new financial disclosures show a Trump family trust bought shares of several companies connected to bitcoin – including Coinbase, MARA Holdings and Strategy – in the first quarter of 2026 as the administration advances a policy plan in favor of crypto.
The filings revealed a total transaction value of between $220 million and $750 million.
