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    "original_url": "https:\/\/reason.org\/faq\/public-pensions-investing-bitcoin-cryptocurrency\/?utm_source=Reason+Magazine&utm_campaign=d93c3aeb7e-reason_brand%7Cnew_at_reason%7C2026_02_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_31d7ef7f57-d93c3aeb7e-589886052",
    "parsed_content": "imageBROKER\/JAQUE DA SILVA\/Newscom \n \n \nFAQ\nFrequently asked questions about public pensions investing\u00a0in Bitcoin and other digital assets\nAre public pension systems investing in digital assets effectively gambling with taxpayer-backed retirement assets?\nLeonard Gilroy\nVice President of Government Reform\nMariana Trujillo\nManaging Director\nFebruary 10, 2026\n \n \n \n \nPublic pension systems have shown increased interest in investing in digital assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies as they become more integrated into mainstream financial markets. Because many public pension systems are underfunded today and provide retirement benefits ultimately guaranteed by taxpayers, any investment in digital assets must be grounded in fiduciary duty, prudence, and risk control\u2014not in novelty or return-chasing.\nReason Foundation recently published the study, \u201cU.S. Public Pension and Trust Fund Investment in Digital Assets: Policy Considerations for Public Sector Investment in Bitcoin, Stablecoins, and Other Cryptocurrencies,\u201d which finds digital assets to be a promising but high-risk asset class requiring explicit investment guardrails to protect the public interest in pension solvency. The focus is not on promoting investment, but rather on providing a prudent framework for public pension systems considering cryptocurrency investment, clarifying how public pensions should think about governance, risk management, allocation limits, custody, operational safeguards, and transparency if they choose to engage.\nIn this post, we address a few basic questions, as well as more detailed ones, about the report and the emerging policy issues related to cryptocurrencies and digital assets.\nThe report recommends best practices for state treasurers and public pension systems considering digital-asset exposure. The core principles include:\nCryptocurrency\/digital asset investments must serve solely the public pension system\u2019s fiduciary duty to maximize risk-adjusted returns.\nA public pension\u2019s total digital-asset exposure should be capped (generally at 2%\u201310% of assets under management and sourced from existing alternative allocations to avoid increasing aggregate portfolio risk.\nEnhanced due diligence is required for custody, audit quality, counterparty risk, and regulatory compliance.\u00a0\nPension systems must publicly disclose all direct and indirect cryptocurrency exposure.\nCryptocurrency-specific stress testing (e.g., 80% drawdowns, exchange failure, regulatory bans) must be embedded in risk models.\nRebalancing rules must account for the heightened volatility of digital assets; and\u00a0\nEvery allocation must include a planned exit strategy tied to custody failure, regulatory change, or breach of risk limits.\nApplied rigorously, this framework would help protect public pension beneficiaries and taxpayers from unnecessary and unwarranted risk.\n\u201cDigital assets\u201d is used as an umbrella term for blockchain-based technologies that enable secure, transferable digital ownership. For public pension considerations, the most relevant categories are Bitcoin, stablecoins, and other cryptocurrencies and tokens.\nBitcoin: Bitcoin is the first and most widely adopted digital asset. It is best seen as both a currency and a payment system, and because of its fixed supply, it is often referred to as \u201cdigital gold.\u201d It operates on a decentralized public blockchain, which is a distributed, immutable ledger maintained by a global network, not by a state. It allows peer-to-peer transactions without reliance on banks or other intermediaries.\nStablecoins: Stablecoins are blockchain-based tokens designed to maintain a stable value by being pegged to a fiat currency, typically the U.S. dollar. They are generally backed by cash or cash-equivalent reserves, often short-term U.S. Treasuries. The largest are Tether (USDT), USD Coin (USDC), and Dai (DAI).\nOther cryptocurrencies: Other cryptocurrencies and tokens (\u201caltcoins\u201d) encompass a wide range of blockchain assets serving different functions, including smart-contract platforms (e.g., Ethereum, Solana), decentralized finance (DeFi) services, governance and utility tokens, NFTs, and application-specific use cases such as payments, data services, gaming, or privacy.\nCryptocurrencies are alternative investments, and, as such, public pension plans should approach them with the same caution they apply to other high-risk asset classes. Before considering digital assets, fiduciaries should assess whether lower-risk, more liquid options can better satisfy their fiduciary duty.\nCryptocurrency markets have matured in recent months, driven by both moves by the Trump administration and growing mainstream adoption. Some institutional investors, including major university endowments such as Harvard and Brown, now hold Bitcoin in their portfolios. Institutions such as BlackRock, Fidelity, and Bank of America have suggested that a small allocation of 2%\u201310% in cryptocurrencies can be part of a diversified portfolio.\nPublic pension systems, however, are distinct. Their investment losses are ultimately socialized, borne by taxpayers, not beneficiaries. As a result, entering a new and volatile asset class requires heightened scrutiny and a clear understanding of downside risks.\nAny exposure to digital assets must be governed by a disciplined, rules-based framework consistent with fiduciary duty\u2014emphasizing prudence, transparency, and risk control. Given the early stage of market development and uncertain performance across economic cycles, digital assets introduce added complexity and risk.\nIf a public pension system chooses to invest in cryptocurrencies or other digital assets, allocations should be small, fully disclosed, and subject to strict custody, stress-testing, rebalancing, and exit rules.\u00a0\nAs recent volatility in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies reminds investors, these assets have crashed before and will crash again. The question for public pension systems is whether Bitcoin or other digital assets offer appropriate upside relative to their risks, and whether those risks are properly understood, disclosed, and deliberately managed by the pension systems.\nInvesting in cryptocurrencies may offer public pensions exposure to a new asset class and inflation or dollar hedging benefits, but these features come with risks and extreme volatility. Public pension systems should not be exposed to speculative or uncontrolled risk. Any public pension investment in digital assets should be subject to strict limits, transparency, and a rules-based fiduciary framework. A small, capped allocation to Bitcoin, governed by clear custody, rebalancing, and exit rules, for example, is fundamentally different from unmanaged speculation on a brand-new altcoin.\nThe public pensions that have invested in digital assets have done so cautiously and primarily through indirect exposure rather than direct ownership. The most common approach has been to hold publicly traded equities whose value is closely tied to cryptocurrency markets\u2014most notably Bitcoin treasury companies like MicroStrategy, cryptocurrency exchanges such as Coinbase, and cryptocurrency mining firms. Because these securities are included in major equity indexes, many pensions already hold them through existing public equity allocations that track indexes.\u00a0\nDirect exposure remains limited but is growing. A small number of pensions have gained Bitcoin exposure through regulated spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs), which provide price exposure without the operational complexity of self-custody. Others have indirect \u201cpicks-and-shovels\u201d exposure through either public or private equity investments in cryptocurrency infrastructure, custody providers, chip manufacturers, or blockchain technology.\u00a0\nA recent white paper by a Marquette University professor analyzed financial filings for 17 of the largest U.S. public pension systems and found that, by mid-2025, these funds already hold $3.32 billion in cryptocurrency-linked equities and ETFs. Overall, existing public pension exposure to digital assets is modest, diversified across vehicles, and largely embedded within traditional asset classes rather than standalone cryptocurrency allocations.\nReason Foundation\u2019s Pension Integrity Project views private equity and cryptocurrency similarly. They are high-risk asset classes that warrant heightened scrutiny in public pension portfolios.\nReason\u2019s concern with public pension systems expanding investments in private equity is that it often exposes taxpayers to illiquid, leveraged, high-fee, and opaque investments with questionable net returns and limited accountability.\u00a0\nCryptocurrencies present distinct risks, but they raise the same core fiduciary issue: unchecked exposure to an untraditional asset that can amplify contribution volatility and shift additional financial risk onto taxpayers.\nBecause cryptocurrencies are newer and less familiar to public pension trustees than private equity, the paper\u2019s purpose is not to advocate for them, but to specify what a responsible governance framework would require if a public pension or public trust chooses to engage with cryptocurrencies and digital assets. The proposed framework in this paper for investment in digital assets includes special allocation caps that account for the inherent volatility of Bitcoin and other digital assets, enhanced due diligence, full transparency, stress testing, disciplined rebalancing, and clear exit rules. This framework closely mirrors the controls Reason has long argued should apply to private equity and other alternative investments.\u00a0\nThis study recommends limiting public pension exposure to cryptocurrency and explicitly capping it by law or investment policy. For pension plans that choose to invest in digital assets, the report identifies a prudent upper range of 2%\u201310% of total assets, consistent with prevailing institutional guidance.\nPublic pension officials should treat regulatory and political risk as a core investment risk, not a secondary consideration, and explicitly price it into any investment decision. Even if current federal policy is permissive, cryptocurrency markets remain sensitive to shifts in global regulatory and tax policies.\nAny exposure to digital assets in a pension portfolio should be stress-tested to ensure fiduciaries understand the implications of different policy or economic scenarios. For example, this report recommends strong reporting guidelines that would include simulating a complete loss in digital asset value.\nAlmost all hacking and cryptocurrency losses occur when people hold their own keys, and either they lose the password or a hacker discovers it. To best minimize custody risk, pensions can invest in digital assets through regulated vehicles such as spot cryptocurrency ETFs or publicly traded cryptocurrency-linked companies, which eliminate direct key-management risk. Though, given the industry\u2019s many bankruptcy cases, enhanced due diligence on custodians and counterparties would be prudent.\u00a0\nFull Study: U.S. public pension and trust fund investment in digital assets",
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    "ai_excerpt": "This FAQ from Reason Foundation addresses public pension systems investing in digital assets like Bitcoin. It emphasizes fiduciary duty, risk control, and provides a framework for prudent investment, including allocation limits and transparency. The report recommends best practices for state treasurers and public pension systems considering digital-asset exposure.",
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