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Markets

Tokenized Treasury Funds Pass $2B Market Cap Amid BlackRock’s Explosive Growth

BlackRock's BUIDL has quickly topped $500 million in market cap.

Tokenized Treasury funds passed $2 billion in market cap on Saturday. (Source: RWA.xyz)

Finance

Avalanche Becomes Latest Blockchain to Support Franklin Templeton's Tokenized Money Market Fund

The fund, which launched in 2021, currently stands at a $420 million market cap.

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Finance

TradFi Underestimates Bitcoin's Enormous Scale, Franklin Templeton CEO Says

Bitcoin processed $36.6 trillion in transactions last year, far more than payment network giants Mastercard and Visa combined.

Jenny Johnson, Franklin Templeton President and CEO, speaks at Consensus 2024. (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Markets

Franklin Templeton's Tokenized Money Market Fund Expands to Arbitrum

The $420 million OnChain U.S. Government Money Market Fund was already on Stellar and Polygon.

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News Analysis

Staking in Ethereum ETFs Might Be a Question of When, Not If

The eight spot ether exchange-traded funds had a largely successful launch on Tuesday, despite the missing staking feature that many investors had hoped to profit from.

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Videos

Day 1 of Spot Ether ETF Trading With BlackRock and Franklin Templeton

Spot Ether ETF products in the U.S. saw over $1 billion worth of shares traded on their first day. David Mann, Head of ETF Product & Capital Markets at Franklin Templeton, joins BlackRock Head of Digital Assets Robert Mitchnick to reflect on the first day of trading and discuss the road that led to the launch of the products. This content should not be construed or relied upon as investment advice. It is for entertainment and general information purposes.

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Finance

Bitcoin Layer-2 Chain Bitlayer Raises $11M Led by ETF Issuer Franklin Templeton

Bitlayer's layer 2 is based on the BitVM paradigm, which was unveiled last October and laid out a path for Ethereum-style smart contracts on the original blockchain.

Jenny Johnson, Franklin Templeton president and CEO, speaks at Consensus 2024. (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Videos

How Blockchain Technologies Can Empower Financial Institutions

Roger Bayston, Executive Vice President and Head of Digital Assets at Franklin Templeton, and Shift Markets CEO Ian McAfee joined CoinDesk Live at Consensus 2024 to discuss institutional adoption of crypto and how blockchain technologies empower financial service providers.

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Finance

Franklin Templeton Weighs New Crypto Fund Investing in Tokens Beyond Bitcoin, Ether: Report

The private fund would offer exposure to a range of cryptocurrencies and potentially provide staking rewards, The Information reported.

Jenny Johnson, Franklin Templeton President and CEO, speaks at Consensus 2024. (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Finance

Franklin Templeton's Jenny Johnson on Bitcoin ETFs, RWA Tokenization and Blockchain's Potential for TradFi

The president and CEO of the asset management giant said blockchains are "transformational tech" that can help drive down operational costs during a panel discussion at Consensus 2024.

Jenny Johnson, Franklin Templeton President and CEO, speaks at Consensus 2024. (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

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