BlackRock Launches 2 Tokenized Cash Funds as It Targets a $300 Billion Stablecoin Market
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Updated · CoinDesk · Aug 3
BlackRock Launches 2 Tokenized Cash Funds as It Targets a $300 Billion Stablecoin Market
3 articles · Updated · CoinDesk · Aug 3
Summary
BlackRock on Monday added two tokenized money market products—BSTBL on Ethereum and BRSRV with daily dividend reinvestment across multiple blockchains—to expand its onchain cash platform.
Both funds are designed to qualify as reserve assets for permitted U.S. payment stablecoin issuers under the GENIUS Act, aligning with BlackRock’s push to become the industry’s reserve manager of choice.
Securitize will act as BRSRV’s transfer agent and tokenization provider, extending a partnership that began with BlackRock’s first tokenized money-market fund, BUIDL.
BUIDL has grown to about $2.5 billion since its 2024 launch, while BlackRock already manages $60 billion of Circle reserves—about a quarter of the roughly $300 billion stablecoin market.
The launch comes as tokenized real-world assets top $30 billion after more than 200% annual growth, with Citi projecting tokenized securities could reach $5.5 trillion by 2030.
The $31 Billion Tokenized Treasury Surge: BlackRock, Stablecoin Regulation, and the Race for Digital Dollar Dominance
Overview
Sweeping U.S. regulations in 2025 and 2026, including the GENIUS Act and CLARITY Act, created a yield vacuum by banning interest on stablecoins and passive yield from crypto intermediaries. This left billions of dollars in stablecoins earning zero yield, prompting BlackRock to launch BSTBL and BRSRV tokenized money market funds to capture this demand. Meanwhile, DeFi protocols integrated BlackRock’s BUIDL fund as collateral, creating a feedback loop that drives more assets into BlackRock’s products. As tokenization accelerates settlement times and boosts capital efficiency, the industry faces new risks from smart contract vulnerabilities and custodian concentration, while fee compression intensifies competition among asset managers.