Franklin Templeton

Its research team continues to evaluate crypto assets like the firm has done for public equity markets and credit markets for decades

Franklin’s Sandy Kaul told Blockworks that the firm is working on “new and innovative” blockchain solutions for clients

Also in the tokenized fund space, Franklin Templeton launches on Base and Securitize hits $1 billion in tokenized RWA onchain

Plus, a rundown of today’s episode of Empire — Delphi’s take on market performance

Plus, Galaxy Ventures unveils a new fund focused on early-stage crypto firms

Franklin Templeton has the lowest intended ETH fund fee so far, though a similar advantage did not help it win the race for bitcoin ETF assets

Tokenized RWAs might not sound sexy, but there’s no doubting the demand

Also, who’s come out swinging in the spot ether ETF fee war — and who could undercut them

A fee war is brewing; Ark Invest for now ditches its plan to enter the spot ether ETF arena with 21Shares

More institutions are allocating to bitcoin ETFs with the long term in mind, according to Franklin Templeton’s Christopher Jensen — though education remains a work in progress

New separately managed account is set to hold BTC and ETH and be available for wealth managers on Eaglebrook Advisors’ platform

The firm detailed its proposed product in an SEC filing Monday

Financial services giant undercuts previous low mark set by Bitwise a day after first spot BTC funds launch in the US

Agency’s decision to start comment window earlier than expected could be bullish for spot bitcoin ETF approval in January, industry watchers say

The SEC dropped a filing delaying a decision on Franklin’s bitcoin ETF proposal late Friday

It would make sense for the third-largest ETF provider by assets — a dominant player in the gold ETF space — to file for a bitcoin fund, market observers say

The $1.4 trillion asset manager joins BlackRock, Fidelity and others in pursuit of such a product two weeks after Grayscale’s court victory against the SEC

Company’s tokenized money market fund a complementary product to stablecoins “at a minimum,” executive says

An SEC filing on Wednesday for a Franklin Templeton blockchain private equity fund appears to be the asset manager’s latest move into crypto

The Stellar Development Foundation wrote a $20 million check to a Franklin Templeton Fund that runs on the Stellar blockchain — here’s why

After issuing an NFT to certain clients, Franklin Templeton is “devoted to uncovering new applications for these assets,” firm’s head of digital assets technology says

The $1.3 trillion fund group is playing with the idea of launching additional crypto strategies after debuting its crypto SMAs

$1.4T asset manager’s separately managed accounts to be available to financial advisers and wealth managers via Eaglebrook Advisors’ platform

Fund group with nearly $1.5 trillion assets waiting for the right time to offer crypto-related ETFs