BlackRock BUIDL vs Ethena

BUIDL is BlackRock’s tokenised U.S. Treasury fund issued on Ethereum in partnership with Securitize. Each share represents ownership in a money‑market fund holding short‑dated Treasuries and reverse repos, with NAV updated daily on chain. Qualified holders can redeem tokens for cash within T+1 settlement, and yield is streamed to wallets every business day.

USDe is Ethena’s synthetic dollar backed by delta‑neutral ETH perpetual hedge positions rather than off‑chain treasuries. The collateral basket auto‑rebalances between spot ETH, LSTs and short perps so the net delta remains near zero, turning staking rewards and funding rates into protocol revenue. USDe launched on Ethereum in January 2024 and surpassed $2 billion supply within five months, with deep secondary liquidity on Curve and Bybit.