BlackRock’s BUIDL Goes Live on UniswapX

A significant milestone for decentralized finance unfolded this week as BlackRock’s USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL) became accessible for onchain trading through a strategic integration between Uniswap Labs and Securitize. Hayden Adams framed it as a “huge day for DeFi,” calling out that BlackRock is the world’s largest asset manager, BUIDL is its first tokenized fund, & that this collaboration uses Uniswap’s market structure to power onchain trading for BUIDL investors.

• What Was Announced
• Securitize’s Role
• Why This Is a Real TradFi–DeFi Bridge
• What To Watch Next

What Was Announced

Uniswap Labs said it is integrating with Securitize to make BUIDL available to trade via UniswapX through Securitize. UniswapX is designed to improve execution by letting trades source liquidity across the market, with onchain settlement.

When you plug a tokenized fund product into that kind of execution environment, you are doing something more meaningful than “adding a new asset.” You are testing whether institutional-grade instruments can participate in quote-driven, competitive onchain execution in a way that still respects permissioning.

As EtherWorld reported earlier, Uniswap introduced a unification proposal to activate protocol fees & potentially burn UNI, signaling a major shift in the protocol’s value accrual model.

Securitize’s Role

At the center of this integration sits Securitize, one of the earliest & most established platforms focused on bringing regulated financial assets onchain. Unlike purely crypto-native issuers, Securitize operates at the intersection of compliance, tokenization & institutional infrastructure.

The company provides the legal, operational & technical framework required to issue and manage tokenized securities in a way that aligns with regulatory standards. Over the past few years, Securitize has positioned itself as a bridge layer between traditional capital markets & blockchain networks, enabling funds, private equity, credit products & other instruments to exist in programmable form without abandoning compliance obligations.

In this structure, Securitize effectively ensures that participation remains restricted to approved investors while still allowing assets to benefit from blockchain settlement & transparency.

Huge day for DeFi

BlackRock is the largest asset manager in the world ($14T aum) and BUIDL is their first tokenized fund

This collab uses Uniswap’s market structure to power onchain trading for BUIDL investors, settled on Ethereum

Big step towards ~all value trading onchain https://t.co/Pkngxry24V

— Hayden Adams 🦄 (@haydenzadams) February 11, 2026

Why This Is a Real TradFi–DeFi Bridge

A lot of “TradFi meets DeFi” narratives are marketing wrappers on top of basic token issuance. This one is different because it is about market structure.

In another key development tracked by EtherWorld, BlackRock digital assets leader Joseph Chalom joined SharpLink as Co-CEO, reflecting how institutional crypto leadership continues expanding beyond traditional asset management firms. BlackRock’s BUIDL matters because it represents institutional comfort with tokenized fund packaging. Uniswap matters because it represents battle-tested onchain execution & liquidity routing.

Securitize matters because it provides the compliance bridge that institutions require. As previously reported by EtherWorld, BlackRock’s BUIDL transferred $500 million to Polygon, highlighting the fund’s multi-chain liquidity expansion & institutional experimentation beyond Ethereum.

What To Watch Next

The immediate story is that BUIDL can now be accessed via UniswapX through Securitize under a whitelisted subscriber model. The bigger question is what this unlocks over time.

As EtherWorld previously covered, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink spotlighted India while calling tokenization essential to the future of finance, underscoring the growing institutional push toward blockchain-based asset infrastructure. Tokenized real-world assets have quietly become one of the fastest-growing segments in crypto over the past year.

What began as pilot programs and proof-of-concept launches has steadily evolved into serious infrastructure experimentation by some of the largest asset managers in the world. Each integration like this moves the industry away from theory and closer to practical market design.

Secondary liquidity for tokenized funds may deepen, not because of speculation, but because execution pathways become more efficient and transparent. Institutional participation in onchain markets could grow as compliance-compatible frameworks mature.

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