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Franklin Templeton (Franklin Resources) is a global asset manager offering mutual funds and ETFs, including the tokenized BENJI money market fund.
Franklin Templeton holds about $1.5 billion, or 59.8%, of its roughly $2.55 billion in onchain fund assets on BNB Chain, Crypto Briefing reported. The other nine chains split about $1.03 billion, roughly $114 million each on average.
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US spot XRP ETFs took in a net $11.31 million last week, their 12th straight weekly inflow, according to Sosovalue data. Cumulative inflows of about $1.8 billion now exceed the $1.57 billion the funds hold.
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Franklin Templeton, a $1.79 trillion manager, asked SEC crypto staff on Oct. 9 whether exemptions could let tokenized money funds and ETFs trade in blockchain pools. Its questions concern the 1940 Act's rules on fund pricing and pooled assets, which sit outside the SEC's Sept. 17 relief for blockchain venues.
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US bitcoin and ether ETFs shed about $965 million in two sessions as ether funds logged an eighth straight day of redemptions. Most of Thursday's selling sat in Fidelity's FBTC and BlackRock's ETHA, consistent with a few large holders trimming positions.
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Franklin Templeton CEO Jenny Johnson called rival tokenized funds "digital twins" at TOKEN2049, pricing BENJI transactions at $1.13 against roughly $150. Her January earnings call gave different numbers, so where a fund keeps its ownership record is the firmer test.
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Samsung and SK hynix are wrapping up buybacks of 15 trillion and 40 trillion won, so earnings now have to bring other investors into the two chip stocks. Franklin Templeton's Yi Ping Liao favors SK hynix because it will cancel every share it buys back.
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U.S. spot XRP ETFs stretched their inflow streak to 12 weeks on Oct. 6 yet held $97 million less than investors had put in, according to Sosovalue data. One overnight drop in XRP's price outweighed the day's $3.14 million net more than 20 times.
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Spiko, a Paris issuer of tokenized money market funds, raised a $90 million Series B led by NEA after reaching about $2.6 billion in assets. The figures put Spiko at the front of Europe's tokenized fund issuers and show little so far about whether it can win cash away from incumbents such as BlackRock.
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TBC Bank's Uzbekistan unit is considering its own IPO after a Franklin Templeton-run state fund raised $690 million on more than $2.8 billion of orders. Buyers now want to know whether reforms that one analyst says rest largely on presidential decree will hold, and Moody's has tied Uzbekistan's rating to the answer.
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Goldman Sachs is distributing its roughly $100 billion FTIXX Treasury fund through Lynq, a permissioned Avalanche settlement network, without tokenizing it. Lynq's crypto trading clients hold just over $89 million there, so the test is whether faster settlement alone pulls their idle cash into the fund.
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BlackRock's fund is back at roughly $2.8bn, but the pool it leads has grown to $15bn to $16bn. A share that once ran 40% to 46% is now closer to 18%. The title has changed hands twice inside a year.
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Castle Labs says liquidity, collateral use and interoperability decide what comes next for tokenized real-world assets. The 77.6% wrapper share quoted alongside that argument counts instruments, and the dollars sit in Treasuries.
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RWA.xyz's count puts US T-bills at $15bn of a $46.2bn total and five assets at about 70% of it. Other trackers stop at $38bn, so the Treasury share of onchain finance moves seven points on the choice of tracker.
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The novel-ETF comment file closed Monday with a16z, Grayscale, Schwab, Chainalysis and Kalshi arguing past each other, and only Schwab attached a number to its ask: 75 days of public filing before effect.
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The Foundation bought out the locked allocations of seed investors who had shown they would sell, released everyone else's early, and proposes routing 95% of net revenue into buybacks. That trade rests on a revenue figure the Foundation has not published.
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A layer 1 blockchain now holds the licence that Computershare and EQ have held for decades. The interesting part is the obligation that comes attached, not the marketing.
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A June SFC proposal would widen retail access to a pool McKinsey sizes at about US$100 billion. The binding constraint is reporting, liquidity and the intermediaries who must explain both.
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DefiLlama puts actively deployed real-world assets at $3.98 billion, up sixfold in a year. Measured against $34.55 billion issued, that is 11.5% doing any work onchain.
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