BlackRock’s $150B Tokenized Treasury Play: Wall Street’s Crypto Endgame?

BlackRock just filed paperwork for a tokenized treasury trust that could funnel institutional billions onto blockchain rails. The SEC filing reveals plans for a $150 billion offering—roughly the GDP of Hungary.

Why it matters: When the world’s largest asset manager starts printing digital IOUs, even crypto skeptics pay attention. This isn’t DeFi degens apeing into memecoins—it’s the old guard colonizing the new frontier.

The fine print: The ’BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Trust’ will hold Treasury bills, with each share represented as a digital token. Translation: TradFi just found a way to make yield-bearing stablecoins without calling them stablecoins.

Bottom line: The same firm that called Bitcoin an ’index of money laundering’ in 2018 now wants to tokenize everything that isn’t nailed down. Guess those blockchain ’use cases’ finally appeared—right around the time clients started demanding them.