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Financial institutions including Franklin Templeton and BNP Paribas are increasingly adopting tokenization to enhance capital efficiency and liquidity within institutional workflows. Executives have highlighted the potential for blockchain-based infrastructure to modernize the European Union's capital markets by enabling faster settlement and improved collateral management. This shift is supported by the integration of proprietary platforms, such as Franklin Templeton’s Benji, with broader networks like the Canton Network, which connects various banks and asset managers to facilitate on-chain financial operations.
The broader sector is seeing significant infrastructure development, including partnerships between major exchanges and tokenization platforms to support 24/7 trading and stablecoin-based funding. Industry participants suggest that clearer regulatory frameworks and the need for programmable, on-chain financial products are driving this institutional adoption. These initiatives aim to bridge the gap between traditional finance and digital asset ecosystems by providing secure, private, and regulated environments for settling traditional securities.
Franklin Templeton and BNP Paribas are utilizing tokenization to improve capital efficiency and liquidity in EU financial markets.
The Canton Network serves as a collaborative infrastructure for institutions like Goldman Sachs, BNY Mellon, and Société Générale to tokenize and settle traditional securities.
Franklin Templeton integrated its Benji platform with the Canton Network to allow its tokenized money market funds to function as collateral.
Strategic partnerships, such as the one between Franklin Templeton and MoonPay, are designed to facilitate institutional movement between stablecoins and tokenized fund exposure.
The tokenized real-world asset market has grown to include approximately $8.4 billion in tokenized U.S. Treasurys.
Benji is Franklin Templeton’s proprietary blockchain-enabled recordkeeping and transfer agency infrastructure used to support tokenized investment products.
The Canton Network is a blockchain-based platform designed for financial institutions to tokenize and settle traditional securities while maintaining data privacy.
Stablecoins are being integrated into institutional workflows to provide liquidity and funding for the trading and settlement of tokenized assets.
Institutions including Goldman Sachs, BNY Mellon, BNP Paribas, Standard Chartered, Société Générale, and Deutsche Börse have piloted the network.
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