BlackRock has moved to expand its tokenized fixed-income lineup with two new tokenized Treasury funds built on Ethereum, deepening the world’s largest asset manager’s push into onchain real-world assets.
BlackRock has moved to expand its tokenized fixed-income lineup with two new tokenized Treasury funds built on Ethereum, deepening the world’s largest asset manager’s push into onchain real-world assets.
BlackRock has moved to expand its tokenized fixed-income lineup with two new tokenized Treasury funds built on Ethereum, deepening the world’s largest asset manager’s push into onchain real-world assets.
The launch pairs BlackRock’s brand with Ethereum-based Treasury exposure, extending a strategy the firm has pursued through earlier tokenized products. It is a real-world asset development rather than a broad crypto-token rollout. For related coverage, see Zimbabwe Unveils Crypto Licensing Framework.
The move is documented in a pair of post-effective registration amendments filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, one for each of the two funds, dated in 2026 (SEC filing and companion SEC filing).
BlackRock has previously placed tokenized share classes on Ethereum, including its tokenized money market fund on Ethereum, giving the new Treasury funds an established template to follow. For related coverage, see Kraken Unveils AI-Driven Financial Intelligence App Upgrade.
Choosing Ethereum places the funds on the public blockchain most closely associated with tokenized asset issuance and onchain financial activity. The chain selection is a substantive part of the news, not a technical footnote.
Public-chain deployment can shape how such products settle and interoperate with other onchain instruments, since a shared, permissionless ledger allows tokenized shares to move within a common infrastructure. That distinguishes Ethereum-based issuance from closed, private-ledger alternatives.
BlackRock’s earlier tokenized Treasury work, including its BUIDL fund that went live on the Tempo network, shows the firm treating chain choice as a strategic infrastructure decision across multiple deployments.
A launch from an asset manager of BlackRock’s scale adds institutional weight to the tokenized Treasury segment, a category frequently discussed as part of the expanding real-world asset sector.
Commentators have framed BlackRock’s broader onchain push as a marker for institutional finance, with one industry outlet describing the firm as having fired the starting gun for a new financial era. That framing reflects sentiment rather than confirmed market outcomes.
Institutional participation in onchain finance has drawn attention alongside traditional fund flows, and recent coverage of Ether funds leading ETF inflows underscores growing interest in Ethereum-linked institutional products.
The concrete effects of the two funds on adoption and liquidity remain unconfirmed in the available filings, which document the registration rather than trading metrics or assets under management. Readers should treat forward-looking market impact as unproven pending further disclosure.
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