Brown Bets on Bitcoin: Ivy League Breaks Ranks with Wall Street Skeptics
Move over, endowment funds—Brown University just became the first Ivy to dive headfirst into crypto. The prestigious institution quietly added a Bitcoin ETF to its portfolio, signaling a seismic shift in institutional adoption.
Wall Street’s old guard is clutching their pearls. Meanwhile, Brown’s finance office is too busy counting satoshis to care about the ’tulip-bubble’ hot takes from tenured economists.
This isn’t some fringe experiment. When an 8-century-old university starts hedging with digital gold, maybe—just maybe—the ’magic internet money’ crowd was right all along.