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Cryptocurrency News Articles
Franklin Templeton Digital Assets Expands Its Services to the Aptos L1 Chain
Oct 02, 2024 at 11:46 pm
The investment company offers a portfolio of conservative T-bills and money market assets, minted as native tokens on multiple blockchains.
Investment company Franklin Templeton Digital Assets is now offering its portfolio of conservative T-bills and money market assets, minted as native tokens, on the Aptos L1 chain.
The news comes as Aptos is now offering native tokenized assets, issued by the Franklin Templeton Digital Assets fund. The organization specializes in real-world assets (RWA), mostly based on US T-bills. More than 95.5% of the fund’s reserves are locked in those conservative assets. Outside of crypto, Franklin Templeton manages $1.6T in traditional financial instruments and assets.
The integration marks the first time that the fund has offered its assets on Aptos, expanding its reach to a new L1 chain. Previously, the fund launched its assets on Ethereum, Solana, and Arbitrum. Those assets are available through the fund’s own mobile application.
The fund’s assets on Ethereum are also available through decentralized applications (dApps) and protocols, thanks to the chain’s vast DeFi ecosystem. However, those assets have not spread widely through the DeFi space.
Following the news of the launch, the APT native token market price remained relatively unchanged. APT traded at $7.67 after a volatile week, but still close to its higher range for the past month.
In total, Aptos drew in $350M to become a high-profile L1 chain. The chain carries $1.02B in value locked, of which $212M in stablecoins, after more active DeFi inflows in the past few months. Aptos is not EVM-compatible, but has received around $4.4M inflows from Ethereum through bridging, mostly in the form of wrapped ETH. Aptos is more widely used for liquid staking and lending, with relatively smaller DEX trading volumes.
Aptos is an innovative L1 chain with its own smart contract frameworks using the Move programming language. The project was developed by a former Facebook/Meta team with previous experience in launching digital assets.
Franklin Templeton may be conservative in picking its underlying assets, but has aimed at innovation when it comes to selecting chains. The fund has worked as a node operator on several networks, including Ethereum via L2 and Solana.
The native BENJI token is also active on less widely used chains like Provenance, Cardano, Stellar, and Polkadot. The fund is just now spreading to more chains, adding Arbitrum in August. Franklin Templeton Digital Assets has been active in the crypto space since the bull market of 2018, hence the launch of tokens on relatively older chains.
The direct RWA investments are also available through a mobile app, aiming at potential retail buyers. Investing in the low-risk bonds happens through the BENJI token, which corresponds to shares in the Franklin On-Chain US Government Money Fund.
Franklin Templeton offers RWA outside the current DeFi ecosystem
The fund locks in a total of $427.95M, of which more than 85% is in liquid assets. The fund has been active since 2021, allowing onboarding through the proprietary app and the BENJI token.
BENJI is fully transferable on-chain but has not been listed for secondary market trading. The token resembles BUIDL by Blackrock, but the asset has not spread through the decentralized ecosystem. BUIDL, on the other hand, is used as collateral for launching new stablecoins on smaller DeFi and lending protocols.
BENJI is more targeted to retail buyers, though Franklin Templeton also has an institutional version of its app. BENJI and the fund’s shares have a nominal value of $1, but the exact price is determined at the moment when the shares are redeemed.
Franklin Templeton was among the first to launch a tokenized fund, at a time when the latest DeFi infrastructure was not completed. For that reason, BENJI remains a niche token, limited to the fund’s proprietary app and record-keeping ecosystem.
The Franklin Templeton fund achieved a conservative 2.97% annualized return since 2021, citing unusual bear market conditions in 2022.
The fund also saw a 2.3% return in the past month, as markets slowly recover from the FTX-induced sell-offs in late 2022. The fund has also seen a 1.1% return since the start of 2023, as markets continue to rally following the news of inflation slowing down in 2022.
Franklin Templeton BTC ETF see renewed inflows
The Franklin Templeton Bitcoin ETF (EXBC) saw renewed inflows in the past week. Another 86.97 BTC flowed into the fund from Coinbase Custody, bringing the total BTC holdings to 7,104 BTC.
Meanwhile, the Franklin Templeton Bitcoin ETF (NYSE Arca: BITO) also saw another 200,000 shares flow out of the fund in the past week. BITO carries a total
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