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On Wednesday, BlackRock, the world's leading asset management firm, announced the launch of a tokenized investment fund, the BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity (BUIDL) Fund, developed in collaboration with Securitize.

Carlos Domingo, founder and CEO of Securitize, discusses the launch of the fund, which is native to the public Ethereum blockchain and aims to bring an institutional-grade cash management product to crypto institutions, offering faster token issuance, redemption, and transferability.

Learn more: What Is Real-World Asset (RWA) Tokenization? A Beginner's Guide

He also talks about how Blackrock has embraced crypto, how the launch of the fund was “front run” by crypto Twitter, and how Blackrock will deal with issues such as the fund being dusted with ETH tainted by sanctioned Tornado Cash ETH.

Show highlights:

What the BUIDL fund is, its essence and objectives
How the fund rewards its users, with a system similar to crypto airdrops
Whether they were worried about regulatory aspects of bringing this product onchain
Securitize's role in the partnership with BlackRock
How much money flowed into the fund on the first day and who the target investor is
Why BlackRock decided to build this product on Ethereum
What BlackRock's attitude towards crypto is, according to Carlos
How the launch of the fund was frontrun by crypto insiders
How a wallet associated with the fund received unintended funds from North Korean tied wallets and whether Ethereum should implement a mechanism for addresses to approve funds that are sent to it
Whether the contract is secure and what steps Securitize is taking to increase the safety of the users
The roadmap for the partnership between BlackRock and Securitize

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Guest

Carlos Domingo, Founder and CEO of Securitize
Previous appearance on Unchained: Could Securitize Democratize Access to Different Asset Classes?

Links

Previous coverage on Unchained of real world assets:
The Catalysts for This Crypto Bull Market: AI, DeFi, Real World Assets?
The Chopping Block: Will Tokenizing RWAs Finally Click This Time?
MakerDAO Has Brought in Real World Assets. Is It Worth the Risk?

BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity (BUIDL) Fund

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