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Techub News reports that Franklin Templeton, a financial services giant with $1.8 trillion in assets under management, met with the cryptocurrency working group of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The company is seeking clarity on how the SEC's innovation exemption rules apply to tokenized money market funds, tokenized National Market System (NMS) ETFs, and tokenized funds on liquidity pools. (CoinGape)
Techub News, according to CryptoBriefing, Kraken parent company Payward announced on May 12 a collaboration with Franklin Templeton to develop on-chain investment products, including tokenized money market funds, yield products, and active management strategies, targeting both institutional and retail clients. Franklin Templeton, with $1.74 trillion in assets under management, will integrate its BENJI tokenized fund onto the Kraken platform as collateral. The two parties will also launch active management strategies based on Payward's xStocks platform (with over $30 billion in trading volume), with retail users only having access in regulatorily permitted regions.
Techub News, according to CryptoBriefing, Kraken's parent company Payward has partnered with global investment management firm Franklin Templeton to launch a new generation of tokenized yield products and on-chain financial tools, aiming to integrate traditional finance with digital infrastructure. The collaboration will be based on Payward's xStocks framework (which has processed over $30 billion in trading volume) to support actively managed on-chain strategies, and will integrate Franklin Templeton's BENJI tokenized money market fund to provide transparent and programmable yield products for institutional and qualified retail users.
Techub News reported, according to Bloomberg, that Franklin Templeton has partnered with Ondo Finance to launch a tokenized version of ETFs that can be traded 24/7 in crypto wallets, bypassing traditional brokerage accounts and limited trading hours. The related products cover U.S. stocks, fixed income, and gold, with the first batch targeting investors in Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and Latin America. Franklin stated that the launch timing in the U.S. market will depend on further clarification from regulators regarding the model of third-party on-chain distribution of registered funds.
Techub News reports, according to Cointelegraph, the production-level benchmarking platform Arena, launched by the open-source AI platform Sentient, has attracted Pantera Capital and Franklin Templeton's digital asset division to join its initial testing roster. This platform focuses on evaluating the performance of AI agents in enterprise-level scenarios by running tests that simulate real-world workflows (such as long document processing, incomplete data, conflicting information sources, etc.), and systematically tracks key failure metrics including hallucinations, lack of evidence, citation errors, and reasoning flaws.
Techub News reported, according to The Block, AI agent infrastructure company t54 Labs has completed a $5 million seed round of financing. The round was co-led by Anagram, PL Capital, and Franklin Templeton, with participation from institutions including Ripple, Virtuals Ventures, Blockchain Coinvestors, and ABCDE. Founded in January 2025, the company focuses on providing "Know Your Agent" identity verification, real-time risk control, credit lines, and integrated settlement tools for AI Agents capable of autonomously initiating payments and transactions. It utilizes blockchain as a programmable and auditable settlement and liability layer. Currently operational on networks such as XRP Ledger, Solana, and Base, it is also developing an open-source trust layer for the x402 payment protocol incubated by Coinbase. Recently, it has also reached an integration partnership with Evernorth, a digital asset treasury company supported by Ripple.
Techub News reports that Binance has partnered with Franklin Templeton to launch an institutional collateral program. This program allows eligible institutional clients to use tokenized money market fund (MMF) shares issued via Franklin Templeton's Benji technology platform as over-the-counter collateral to trade directly on Binance. This initiative aims to enable institutional traders to participate in the digital asset market using traditional, regulated, and yield-generating money market fund assets without depositing them on the exchange, thereby reducing counterparty risk and earning yield.
Techub News reports that the open-source AI platform Sentient announced on X platform that it has received strategic investment from Franklin Templeton. In the future, it will collaborate with Franklin Templeton to advance high-risk AI application cases in the financial sector and introduce open-source inference into real-world production workflows.
Techub News reports that Franklin Templeton has officially released details of its spot Solana ETF. The ETF's initial SOL holdings amount to 17,000 tokens (custodied by Coinbase Custody), with a holding value of approximately $2.4 million. Additionally, the ETF currently has 100,000 shares outstanding, with an expense ratio of 0.19%. The fund will stake the held SOL to earn rewards and will incorporate the related SOL staking rewards into its income.
Techub News: According to documents on the official website of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Franklin Templeton has submitted a prospectus for a Solana spot ETF to the SEC, proposing to launch a spot product tracking Solana's price performance. The annual management fee is 0.19%, making it the lowest fee plan among currently disclosed Solana spot ETFs. Fees will be waived for the first $5,000,000,000 in assets under management (AUM). The specific effective date and listing arrangements are subject to subsequent regulatory disclosures.
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