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Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Fountain, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Castbox, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform.\nOn 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.\xa0\nCarlos 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.\xa0\nLearn more: What Is Real-World Asset (RWA) Tokenization? A Beginner's Guide\nHe also talks about how Blackrock has embraced crypto, how the launch of the fund was \u201cfront run\u201d by crypto Twitter, and how Blackrock will deal with issues such as the fund being dusted with ETH tainted by sanctioned Tornado Cash ETH.\xa0\nShow highlights:\n\nWhat the BUIDL fund is, its essence and objectives\n\nHow the fund rewards its users, with a system similar to crypto airdrops\n\nWhether they were worried about regulatory aspects of bringing this product onchain\n\nSecuritize's role in the partnership with BlackRock\n\nHow much money flowed into the fund on the first day and who the target investor is\n\nWhy BlackRock decided to build this product on Ethereum\xa0\n\nWhat BlackRock's attitude towards crypto is, according to Carlos\n\nHow the launch of the fund was frontrun by crypto insiders\xa0\n\nHow a wallet associated with the fund received unintended funds from North Korean tied wallets and whether Ethereum should implement a mechanism for addresses to approve funds that are sent to it\n\nWhether the contract is secure and what steps Securitize is taking to increase the safety of the users\n\nThe roadmap for the partnership between BlackRock and Securitize\n\nThank you to our sponsors!\n\niTrustCapital\n\nPolkadot\n\nUniswap\n\nGuest\n\n\nCarlos Domingo, Founder and CEO of Securitize\n\nPrevious appearance on Unchained: Could Securitize Democratize Access to Different Asset Classes?\n\n\nLinks\n\nPrevious coverage on Unchained of real world assets:\n\nThe Catalysts for This Crypto Bull Market: AI, DeFi, Real World Assets?\n\nThe Chopping Block: Will Tokenizing RWAs Finally Click This Time?\n\nMakerDAO Has Brought in Real World Assets. Is It Worth the Risk?\n\nBlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity (BUIDL) Fund\n\nThe Block: BlackRock to launch tokenized investment fund with Securitize\n\n\nUnchained:\n\nBlackRock's Institutional Fund Wallet Receives Unsolicited ETH From Tornado Cash Within Hours of Launch\n\nBlackRock Receives Memecoins and NFTs After Putting $100 Million USDC Onchain\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices