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Six months after the November 2025 exploit drained $128M from Balancer v2, the DAO is conceding v3's path back to profitability never landed and is returning its remaining $9M treasury to BAL holders.
A live cross-border redemption on a public blockchain ledger, with the dollar still settling on TradFi rails, is the structural test the sector has been waiting for.
BlackRock's BUIDL and peers sit behind a stack most people never see: qualified custodians, transfer agents, whitelisted wallets, and dual-control signing.
The move lets institutions post tokenized U.S. Treasuries as onchain collateral — and signals DeFi lending books are quietly being rebuilt for permissioned, compliance-bound capital.
The first joint settlement across the three rails turns tokenized US Treasuries into working plumbing for institutional payments, not just a balance-sheet experiment.
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