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Securitize, Ethena Launch $100M BlackRock BUIDL Liquidity Facility

Securitize and Ethena Labs have launched a $100 million liquidity facility that lets eligible holders of BlackRock’s BUIDL tokenized money market fund swap their holdings into USDC and other stablecoins around the clock, the two firms said. The facility is live, giving BUIDL investors a 24/7 route from the tokenized fund into stablecoin liquidity.

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The significance here is less about the size than the plumbing: a tokenized money market fund gaining a 24/7 conversion route into stablecoins narrows the gap between onchain collateral and cash-like liquidity, which is the bottleneck that has kept tokenized treasuries from functioning as working collateral rather than a passive yield wrapper. It matters most for large BUIDL holders and for the stablecoin and lending venues that could now treat the fund as a nearer-cash asset. The open question is whether other issuers and distributors build comparable redemption rails, or whether this remains a single-franchise arrangement.

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