Franklin Templeton
San Mateo, United States · active since 14 Apr 2021 · United States, European Union, Singapore
First manager to run a US-registered '40 Act money market fund with an on-chain transfer agency record. Operates its own tokenization stack (Benji) rather than outsourcing, and has replicated the structure into Luxembourg and Singapore wrappers.
- Products issued
- 3
- Servicing mandates
- 9
- Tokenized AUM issued
- $682.6M
- Networks
- 6
- Counterparties
- 2
- Activity score
- 82
Traditional scale for context: $1.58T in assets under management or custody. This is not counted in any tokenized market-size figure.
Rank 4 of 16 issuers
This firm's share of tokenized fund and securities assets, and how its rank has moved in 30 days.
- Share
- 8.6%
- 30D share move
- +32bp
- Rank move
- ▲1
- Entered
- 14 Apr 2021
Apparent diversification often collapses here: competing issuers frequently depend on the same transfer agent and custody stack.
Tokenized products issued
| Franklin OnChain U.S. Government Money FundBENJI | Money Market Fund | $601.5M | -2.8% | 4.02% | Daily | US |
| Franklin OnChain U.S. Dollar Short-Term Money Market FundBENJI-LU | Money Market Fund | $56.8M | +0.2% | 3.96% | Daily | EU |
| Franklin OnChain USD Short-Term Money Market Fund (VCC)BENJI-SG | Money Market Fund | $24.4M | -2.4% | 3.93% | Daily | SG |
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Activity timeline
Everything we have tracked involving this firm, newest first.
- InfrastructureInfrastructure Integration29 Aug 2026 · todayFranklin Templeton lists Singapore VCC money fund on Aptos
This issuer now runs the same strategy in three regulatory wrappers across eleven network deployments. It is the only dataset in coverage that isolates wrapper choice from strategy choice, watch whether SG VCC flows outpace the Luxembourg vehicle, which would indicate allocators are selecting on domicile rather than manager.
- RegulationRegulatory Development18 Jul 2026 · 1mo agoESMA clarifies MMFR treatment of tokenized share classes
Removes the main open question for EU allocators: a tokenized share class carries no incremental regulatory risk over a conventional one. Expect EU-domiciled products to close part of the wrapper discount against BVI structures over the next two quarters.
- ProductProduct Launch04 Jun 2026 · 3mo agoFranklin Templeton launches Singapore VCC sub-fund
Wrapper replication rather than new-strategy launch is now the dominant expansion pattern. It is cheap for incumbents and near-impossible for crypto-native issuers without local licences: the competitive gap in Asia will widen along regulatory rather than technical lines.
- RegulationRegulatory Development13 May 2026 · 4mo agoUS regulator staff confirm transfer-agent-of-record model for on-chain registers
Removes the last structural question hanging over US products: whether the on-chain record is the record. Funds still running a mirrored off-chain register now carry an explanation burden they did not have before.
- InfrastructurePartnership28 Apr 2026 · 4mo agoBNY expands tokenized fund servicing to a second sponsor
Reinforces the two-custodian structure of the category. For an allocator running several tokenized funds, apparent issuer diversification may resolve to a single custodian and a single administrator on look-through.
- ProductProduct Launch19 Nov 2025 · 9mo agoFranklin Templeton launches Luxembourg on-chain money fund
First evidence of the multi-wrapper strategy that now defines this issuer. It also established that a European vehicle can reuse the sponsor's existing tokenization stack without a local platform partner.
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