- Franklin Templeton and MoonPay partnered to expand institutional tokenized finance.
- Eligible clients can convert stablecoins into tokenized fund exposure on-chain.
- The integration aims to boost liquidity and institutional use of tokenized assets.
Franklin Templeton and MoonPay have announced a strategic partnership to make tokenized financial products more accessible across the on-chain financial ecosystem.
The initial integration connects Franklin Templeton’s Benji Technology Platform with MoonPay Trade’s institutional trading network. It allows eligible institutional clients to use supported stablecoins to invest in Franklin Templeton’s tokenized money market funds through a fully on-chain process.
The move is also one of MoonPay’s first major expansions beyond crypto, fiat currencies, and stablecoins. It brings tokenized money market funds into the company’s institutional infrastructure.
Liquidity and Treasury Management
According to the companies, the integration will make Franklin Templeton’s tokenized money market fund products easier to use within institutional digital asset workflows.
For existing holders, the partnership provides another way to convert tokenized fund holdings back into stablecoin liquidity. This flexibility supports treasury management, liquidity operations, portfolio rebalancing, and collateral-related activities.
Franklin Templeton Head of Innovation and Digital Assets, Sandy Kaul, said tokenized money market funds become more useful when they can move with the speed and programmability of the broader digital asset ecosystem.
She said the partnership creates another trusted route for institutions to move between stablecoins and tokenized fund exposure.
MoonPay Expands Into Tokenized Finance
MoonPay Institutional CEO Caroline Pham said tokenized money market funds can improve liquidity and capital efficiency. However, she noted that wider institutional adoption depends on access to reliable on-chain financial infrastructure.
Pham said the partnership demonstrates how innovation can help bring more institutions into digital asset markets.
The companies added that this collaboration could become the foundation for a broader strategic relationship focused on expanding access to on-chain financial markets.
Franklin Templeton’s Growing Tokenization Strategy
Franklin Templeton has been developing blockchain-based investment products since 2018 through its digital asset and blockchain initiatives.
Its Benji Technology Platform serves as blockchain-enabled recordkeeping and transfer agency infrastructure for tokenized investment products. Through the platform, Franklin Templeton launched the first U.S.-registered mutual fund to use blockchain technology for transaction processing.
The asset manager has continued to expand its tokenization efforts in recent years. In 2024, it launched what it described as the first fully tokenized UCITS fund in Luxembourg. In 2025, it followed with a retail tokenized fund in Singapore.
Earlier this year, Franklin Templeton also announced plans to use BENJI tokens as payment consideration in its proposed acquisition of 250 Digital. The move highlighted the firm’s broader effort to bring traditional financial transactions onto blockchain networks.
Franklin Templeton reported $1.74 trillion in assets under management as of April 30, 2026. MoonPay serves more than 30 million customers across 180 countries and supports over 500 enterprise clients through its digital asset infrastructure.
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