贝莱德将其代币化基金 BUIDL 扩展到 Aptos、Arbitrum、Avalanche、Optimism 和 Polygon

今年早些时候推出比特币 ETF 的华尔街巨头贝莱德 (BlackRock) 正在扩大其代币化基金的规模。

Wall Street giant BlackRock, which earlier this year brought Bitcoin ETFs to the masses, is now expanding its tokenised fund.

华尔街巨头贝莱德于今年早些时候向大众推出了比特币 ETF，目前正在扩大其代币化基金的规模。

In a surprise announcement, the asset management firm and Securitize, a tokenisation platform, said Wednesday that BlackRock’s USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund, or BUIDL, is launching on five additional blockchains: Aptos, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Optimism, and Polygon.

资产管理公司和代币化平台 Securitize 周三出人意料地宣布，贝莱德的美元机构数字流动性基金（BUIDL）将在另外五个区块链上推出：Aptos、Arbitrum、Avalanche、Optimism 和 Polygon。

Ethereum has been the top choice for tokenising real-world assets. The expansion marks a vote of confidence from BlackRock in blockchains beyond Bitcoin and Ethereum.

以太坊一直是现实世界资产代币化的首选。此次扩张标志着贝莱德对比特币和以太坊以外的区块链投下了信任票。

“With these new chains we’ll start to see more investors looking to leverage the underlying technology to increase efficiencies on all the things that until now have been hard to do,” Securitize CEO Carlos Domingo said in a press release.

Securitize 首席执行官卡洛斯·多明戈 (Carlos Domingo) 在一份新闻稿中表示：“有了这些新的连锁店，我们将开始看到更多的投资者希望利用基础技术来提高迄今为止难以做到的所有事情的效率。”

Tokenisation refers to creating a digital representation of an asset as a blockchain-based token. Proponents say it will help speed up the financial system, where asset transfers can take days to settle, and improve capital efficiency.

代币化是指将资产的数字表示形式创建为基于区块链的代币。支持者表示，这将有助于加快金融体系的速度（资产转移可能需要数天时间才能完成），并提高资本效率。

What is BUIDL?

什么是BUIDL？

As the crypto market swelled this year, more financial institutions started experimenting with tokenisation.

随着今年加密市场的蓬勃发展，更多的金融机构开始尝试代币化。

In May, JPMorgan Chase and Visa joined a project to test the possibility of tokenising cash and other assets. Then in September, State Street, an investment firm with $4.1 trillion in assets, inked a partnership with crypto tokenisation platform Taurus.

5 月，摩根大通和 Visa 加入了一个项目，测试现金和其他资产代币化的可能性。随后在 9 月，拥有 4.1 万亿美元资产的投资公司道富银行 (State Street) 与加密代币化平台 Taurus 签署了合作伙伴关系。

BlackRock’s BUIDL is a tokenised fund that invests in dollar-equivalent assets such as cash, US Treasury bills, and repurchase agreements.

贝莱德的 BUIDL 是一只代币化基金，投资于现金、美国国库券和回购协议等美元等值资产。

Shares of BUIDL are pegged to the dollar and pay daily dividends to investors’ wallets as new tokens each month.

BUIDL 的股票与美元挂钩，并每月以新代币的形式向投资者的钱包支付每日股息。

Previously, BUIDL was only available on Ethereum, where it soared to a market value of $517 million since its March launch.

此前，BUIDL 仅在以太坊上可用，自 3 月份推出以来，其市值飙升至 5.17 亿美元。

A surprise move

一个惊喜的举动

The announcement by BlackRock is a surprise as it chooses several blockchains that haven’t yet seen much real-world asset tokenisation.

贝莱德的声明令人惊讶，因为它选择了几个尚未经历太多现实世界资产代币化的区块链。

Colin Butler, Polygon’s head of institutional capital, earlier told DL News that Ethereum is the preferred choice for asset tokenisation because it has the best security guarantees.

Polygon 机构资本主管 Colin Butler 此前对 DL News 表示，以太坊是资产代币化的首选，因为它拥有最好的安全保障。

“If you’re not settling to Ethereum, then you’re taking a security risk that I wouldn’t recommend a firm like BlackRock take at scale,” he said.

“如果你不选择以太坊，那么你就面临着安全风险，我不建议像贝莱德这样的公司大规模承担这种风险，”他说。

Ethereum hosts nearly $3 billion worth of tokenised assets, according to tokenisation data platform rwa.xyz. Stellar, the next biggest blockchain for tokenisation, has just $387 million.

根据代币化数据平台 rwa.xyz 的数据，以太坊拥有价值近 30 亿美元的代币化资产。 Stellar 是第二大代币化区块链，其资产仅为 3.87 亿美元。

Of the new BUIDL blockchains, Arbitrum, Optimism and Polygon rely on Ethereum at least partially for their security. Aptos and Avalanche, on the other hand, are separate standalone chains.

在新的 BUIDL 区块链中，Arbitrum、Optimism 和 Polygon 至少部分依赖以太坊的安全性。另一方面，Aptos 和 Avalanche 是独立的链。

Not all the blockchains BlackRock and Securitize have selected are being treated the same.

并非贝莱德和 Securitize 选择的所有区块链都受到相同的对待。

Those buying BUIDL on Ethereum, Arbitrum and Optimism will pay a 0.5% fee to hold the fund. The equivalent funds on Aptos, Avalanche and Polygon only charge a 0.2% fee.

那些在以太坊、Arbitrum 和 Optimism 上购买 BUIDL 的人将支付 0.5% 的费用来持有该基金。 Aptos、Avalanche 和 Polygon 上的同等基金仅收取 0.2% 的费用。

The Aptos Foundation, Avalanche, Inc. and Polygon Labs BD Investments Ltd. have each agreed to pay BlackRock a quarterly fee based on the average value of BUI

Aptos 基金会、Avalanche, Inc. 和 Polygon Labs BD Investments Ltd. 均同意根据 BUI 的平均价值向贝莱德支付季度费用