$100M BlackRock BUIDL fund trolled on-chain
BlackRock ’s recently deployed $100 million Ethereum -based investment fund has prompted a meme-fuelled on -chain response from the crypto community. The investment behemoth’s move into decentralized finance (DeFi) follows a wildly successful bitcoin ETF launch and echoes CEO Larry Fink’s previous comments that ETFs are “just stepping stones towards tokenization.” The newly created BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL) was launched in conjunction with Securitize, according to the Notice of Exempt Offering of Securities filed with the SEC last week. But shortly after the funds were identified, on -chain trolls began sending Memecoins and NFTs to Blackrock’s address . Larry: "wait a minute- you're telling me our fund already made $42K?? how can that be possible? we just deployed yesterday!" Staffer: "well sir, it appears that big-dick-fink.eth and several others have been sending tokens to our wallet. i'm having accounting catalog it ...