BNB Chain overtakes Stellar to hold 59.8% of Franklin Templeton's onchain fund assets
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.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence45
Chainlink's Data Feeds and Data Streams went live on Stellar mainnet on October 14, 2026, for a network that holds over $4 billion in tokenized assets. XLM fell 7.85% over the seven days around the launch, a window too wide to pin on the news. The oracle's value will show up as borrowing against those assets.
Perspective Coverage
3 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 38%
- Operator
- Operator 19%
- Investor
- Investor 43%
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives70
- Confidence60
XRP Ledger's Permission Delegation splits payment and compliance duties without capping amounts
XRP Ledger's Permission Delegation went live Oct. 8, letting institutions hand specific transaction rights to other accounts without sharing primary keys. Because the grants cannot carry spending limits, institutions keep their own checks on how much a delegate sends.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives65
- Confidence45
NEAR Protocol rose about 6% to $5.50 and passed Stellar's $6.97 billion market value to rank 20th on CoinGecko, crypto.news reported. NEAR's own seven-day gain was 0.6%, so most of the swap in rank came from XLM's 12.8% weekly slide.
Reality
- Evidence65
- Adoption50
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives60
- Confidence65
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.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption55
- Hype gap+40
- Incentives78
- Confidence65
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.
Perspective Coverage
9 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 20%
- Operator
- Operator 33%
- Investor
- Investor 47%
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption60
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives70
- Confidence66
The bank moved a single test payment between North America and Europe on Stellar, and its head of digital assets calls USBDC one component of a strategy that also runs through the Open Standard and Zelle consortiums.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption8
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives60
- Confidence65
The integration reaches about a quarter of America's 4,000 community banks with payment acceptance that needs no new statute, which leaves the Senate's Clarity Act vote to decide the value of the rewards option rather than the plumbing.
Perspective Coverage
5 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 25%
- Operator
- Operator 42%
- Investor
- Investor 33%
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives65
- Confidence60
MoneyGram launches stablecoin-backed dollar Visa card for eligible users in Colombia
MoneyGram's new card in Colombia runs on Circle's USDC, with Rain issuing and Stellar settling. The company says its own MGUSD token comes next, and the dollar balance behind the card would then be MoneyGram's.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption18
- Hype gap+24
- Incentives76
- Confidence55
US Treasury bills hold about a third of the $46.2bn tokenized asset market
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.
Reality
- Evidence30
- Adoption62
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives55
- Confidence32
Four years to EUR 400 million: EURC shows demand, not issuance, is the bottleneck
Circle's euro stablecoin has regulatory cover, five blockchains and card-network settlement. Four years in it has passed EUR 400 million, in a market where roughly 98% of stablecoin value is dollar-denominated.
Reality
- Evidence30
- Adoption38
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives78
- Confidence38