The world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, expanded its decentralized finance strategy by integrating its tokenized U.S. Treasury fund, BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund, with DeFi infrastructure. The firm partnered with Uniswap Labs and Securitize to enable direct onchain trading of the fund.
Transactions will run through UniswapX, which routes orders offchain while settling them onchain. Liquidity is aggregated from multiple sources, and swaps are finalized via smart contracts, effectively connecting traditional finance products with decentralized liquidity.
Following the integration, UNI saw a strong repricing in the market. BlackRock also reportedly acquired an undisclosed amount of UNI as part of its investment in the Uniswap ecosystem. The token moved from $3.25 to $4.59. As of Feb. 11, BUIDL had reached approximately $2.4 billion in assets, positioning it among the largest institutional tokenized funds on public blockchains. Access to the system will be limited to pre-verified institutional investors operating through licensed U.S. brokerage infrastructure.
