BlackRock’s tokenized US Treasury fund BUIDL launched on Uniswap through a partnership with Securitize, putting over $2 billion in real world assets on a decentralized exchange for the first time and proving that the largest asset manager on the planet now treats DeFi as legitimate infrastructure. This major development signals there may be a new cryptocurrency to watch as institutional players enter DeFi.

When institutional capital moves onto decentralized rails, the entire crypto ecosyste