🚨 BREAKING: BlackRock is getting into DeFi. It bought Uniswap (UNI) tokens and listed BUIDL. BUIDL — their $180B tokenized Treasury fund is now on Uniswap, with Securitize handling institutional whitelisting and Wintermute providing liquidity. Then they bought the protocol token. The same protocol token that was under investigation by the previous SEC. --- Right now this is small. - Qualified purchasers only. - $5M+ in assets. - A handful of whitelisted market makers. --- But the Securitize CEO said something most people will skip past: "The infrastructure we're announcing will work equally with retail products." - That's the line that matters. - They're testing with institutions. - They're building for everyone. BUIDL on Uniswap means tokenized treasuries that are composable with stablecoins on decentralized infrastructure. And *that* is a model for the future of all markets. - That's 24/7 settlement. - That's yield-bearing collateral moving on-chain. - That's treasury management on DeFi rails. The world's largest asset manager is now a liquidity provider on a protocol built by degens. And they have skin in the game.