BlackRock Files Digital Asset Fund to the SEC, Backed by $100M

BlackRock, the world’s largest asset management firm, has quietly unveiled its foray into the tokenized asset landscape. According to a recent SEC filing, the firm has introduced the BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund, an initiative registered in the British Virgin Islands.

The initiative was developed in collaboration with San Francisco-based Securitize, an asset tokenization firm. Since the fund’s announcement, keen observers in the blockchain community have spotted a substantial transaction involving $100 million in Circle’s USDC stablecoin transferred on the Ethereum network, likely associated with BlackRock’s latest endeavor.

Also, crypto community members have argued that the move from BlackRock hints at a potential focus on Real-World Assets (RWA) tokenization. “This is a huge step towards RWA adoption,” X user remarked.

In January, BlackRock’s CEO, Larry Fink, discussed the transformative power of tokenization. He underscored the potential of tokenized securities to reshape the landscape of financial transactions.

Meanwhile, there is a notable uptick in the value of tokenization-focused tokens such as ONDO, the native token of Ondo Finance. According to CoinMarketCap, ONDO’s price has surged to $0.544, a 32.16% increase over 24 hours amid the crypto market’s current bearish state. Similarly, UBXS Token (UBXS) has witnessed impressive gains of over 16% within the last 24 hours.

Notably, BlackRock’s recent move into the crypto ecosystem is not its inaugural venture in the crypto space. Before this, the firm introduced a spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) and submitted filings for a comparable product centered around Ethereum (ETH).