BUIDL: Blackrock's $10T Bet on Ethereum | Carlos Domingo
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🗓️ 2 April 2024
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Earlier this month the largest asset manager in the world released its first tokenized fund on Ethereum called the BlackRock BUIDL fund.
We knew this was big… but after recording this episode we’re realizing this is an even bigger deal than we initially thought.
Tokenized treasuries on chain
Tokenized securities on chain.
The largest institutions in the world are here and they’re tokenizing their assets.
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00:00 Intro
00:06:46 What Just Happened Last Week?
00:09:09 What Composes This Fund?
00:15:01 Onchain Dividends
00:20:02 Is BUIDL a Security?
00:22:56 Is It Permissionless?
00:26:02 Redeem Function
00:30:47 What Assets Come Next?
00:39:55 Securitize's Role In This
00:42:39 Size of Inflows
00:47:09 Total Market Size
00:50:46 Yield Accounts
00:53:01 Onboarding New Users
00:55:41 When Central Bank Involvement?
00:59:49 Where Do We Go From Here?
01:02:14 Legitimizing Our Case
01:05:04 Next Blackrock Product
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Carlos Domingo
https://twitter.com/carlosdomingo
Check out the fund contract on Etherscan:
https://etherscan.io/token/0x7712c34205737192402172409a8F7ccef8aA2AEc
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| 0:00.0 | We're hitting this afternoon 150 million in a U. M by the time this gets published |
| 0:05.9 | is probably going to be 3 to 400 million I don't know depending on how the inflows come but |
| 0:09.8 | wow my sense is that this is going to be pretty big fun because there's so much stuff out there that is likely to move here. |
| 0:17.0 | Welcome to Bankless, where we explore the frontier of Black Rock on |
| 0:24.8 | ethereal, tokenizing securities. Really interesting subject today so earlier |
| 0:29.3 | this month the largest asset manager in the world that is Black Rock released its first |
| 0:33.9 | tokenized fund on a theory we talked about this on bank list it's called the |
| 0:37.6 | black rock biddle fund so I think David and I knew this was big like like a big deal, but after the recording, the episode you're about to listen to, I think we're realizing it's an even bigger deal than we initially thought. |
| 0:49.0 | This is about tokenized treasuries on chain. This is about the largest |
| 0:56.0 | institutions in the world opening what we call a bank branch on |
| 1:00.7 | Ethereum and starting to tokenize their assets, |
| 1:03.6 | a very bullish episode for you today. |
| 1:05.8 | Before we get into the episode, |
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