How BlackRock’s New Fund on Ethereum Got a Very Crypto Welcome
On Wednesday, BlackRock, the world's leading asset management firm, announced the launch of a tokenized investment fund, the BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity (BUIDL) Fund, developed in collaboration with Securitize. Carlos Domingo, founder and CEO of Securitize, discusses the launch of the fund, which is native to the public Ethereum blockchain and aims to bring an institutional-grade cash management product to crypto institutions, offering faster token issuance, redemption, and transferability. Learn more: What Is Real-World Asset (RWA) Tokenization? A Beginner's Guide He also talks about how Blackrock has embraced crypto, how the launch of the fund was “front run” by crypto Twitter, and how Blackrock will deal with issues such as the fund being dusted with ETH tainted by sanctioned Tornado Cash ETH.
#6 Blast -Big Bang Competition Momentum- w/Yuki Sato
Topics - Yuki's self-introduction: VC -> TikTok Ads -> Social / Crypto - Two days in Denver, first a Game Party - Lunch conversation with Tane/Phi after Intmax's impact announcement - Review of Blast's overview, track record, and yield structure - Blast's target users and hypothesized GMT strategy - Big Bang Competition heat and rationale - Yuki's project on Forking friend.tech - 3 notable projects of Big Bang Winners - Risk/Reward with high affinity to users on Blast - Comparison of Blast and Base from a builder's perspective - Yuki's Future