Franklin Templeton doubles down on crypto adoption, saying digital assets are here to stay as it pushes traditional finance further onchain through its Benji platform

$1.98B in BENJI AUM plus $211M of P2P transfer volume is where tokenized funds stop being brochureware and start looking like prime-broker plumbing. Franklin has already pushed the same rail into Binance/Ceffu off-exchange collateral, DigiFT’s MAS channel, and Payward/Kraken’s xStocks stack, so yield-bearing collateral is getting embedded into exchange margin and tokenized equity rails. DeFi should care less about the TradFi branding and more about whether BENJI/BUIDL/USYC liquidity becomes composable enough to compete with idle USDC as treasury collateral.

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