BlackRock just walked into DeFi. The world's largest asset manager ($14T AUM) is listing its $2.2B tokenized Treasury fund BUIDL on Uniswap.
Whitelisted institutions can now trade government bonds 24/7 via smart contracts, settled on Ethereum. And BlackRock didn't just list the product - they bought UNI tokens too. Market noticed. UNI spiked 40%.
This is BlackRock putting real money into a DeFi protocol while BTC sits at $67K. Their 2026 outlook calls Ethereum "the toll road of tokenization." Whether you like it or not, TradFi is building on-chain. The question is whether prices catch up to infrastructure.
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