Franklin Templeton's tokenized money market product, reported with zero DeFi utilization.
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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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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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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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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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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