BlackRock Bridges TradFi and DeFi with BUIDL Fund Integration on Uniswap
BlackRock makes a decisive MOVE into decentralized finance by connecting its $2.1 billion tokenized treasury fund, BUIDL, to Uniswap's infrastructure. This strategic integration marks the first major institutional deployment of tokenized assets onto DeFi rails, leveraging Securitize for compliance and UniswapX for execution.
The fund—backed by U.S. Treasury bonds—remains accessible only to qualified institutions, reflecting BlackRock's measured approach to blockchain adoption. Asset tokenization emerges as the operational focus, with the firm positioning it as finance's next evolutionary phase rather than speculative experimentation.