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Franklin Templeton parks 59.8% of its onchain assets on BNB Chain

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The asset manager's Benji platform now holds approximately $1.5 billion in tokenized fund shares on Binance's blockchain, more than any other network it uses Franklin Templeton has picked a favorite blockchain, and it isn’t the one where its tokenized fund began. The firm holds approximately $1.5 billion in tokenized fund shares on BNB Chain as of mid-October 2026. That figure represents about 59.8% of Franklin Templeton’s total onchain assets. For a firm spread across ten different networks, that is a lot of eggs in one basket. Franklin Templeton’s total onchain footprint sits at around $2.55 billion. Those assets are distributed across ten blockchains, but BNB Chain now carries the majority of the load. The engine behind all of this is Benji, Franklin Templeton’s proprietary tokenization platform.

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