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Bridge rate-limiter / chain-pause as positive mitigant

BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL)'s assessment for RD-F-185 — scored gray on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.

Evidence summary #

Wormhole is Securitize's cross-chain interoperability provider for BUIDL share-class conversions. BUIDL per-chain deployments are separate share classes (not bridge-wrapped). No per-window outflow rate-limiter documented for BUIDL-specific Wormhole integration. No chain-pause capability documented. Factor targets user-facing bridge protocols; BUIDL architecture is admin-mediated institutional settlement.

Sources #

  • URL
    https://wormhole.com/blog/securitize-announces-the-live-deployment-of-wormhole-enabling-tokenizedretrieved 2026-04-26

Methodology #

Determine whether the bridge implements a per-window outflow rate-limiter (and at what cap), and whether the protocol team can trigger a chain-level or validator-set emergency pause.

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rubric_version v1.7.0 protocol blackrock-buidl factor RD-F-185 score gray collected_at 2026-05-12 09:40:42