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Franklin Templeton puts tokenized ETFs in crypto wallets with 24/7 trading

Franklin Templeton puts tokenized ETFs in crypto wallets with 24/7 trading

Franklin Templeton enters onchain markets with Ondo as Bitcoin rallies and Bitmine expands MAVAN staking across its ETH treasury.

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Wall Street keeps inching closer to the blockchain. And this time, it's not just talk.

The biggest money managers are building real products on crypto rails.

Meanwhile, OpenAI is axing one of its flashiest tools to bet bigger on AI agents.

Markets shrugged off geopolitical noise and pushed higher anyway.

Franklin Templeton makes tokenized ETFs tradeable around the clock in crypto wallets

Franklin Templeton now manages $1.68 trillion and is betting big on blockchain-native funds.

Its Benji platform already runs the first US-registered money market fund on-chain, with $557M in assets.

Now the firm is extending that playbook to ETFs that trade 24/7 inside crypto wallets.

Traditional market hours might soon feel like a relic.

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Franklin Templeton puts tokenized ETFs in crypto wallets with 24/7 trading

Franklin Templeton puts tokenized ETFs in crypto wallets with 24/7 trading

Franklin Templeton enters onchain markets with Ondo as Bitcoin rallies and Bitmine expands MAVAN staking across its ETH treasury.

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Wall Street keeps inching closer to the blockchain. And this time, it's not just talk.

The biggest money managers are building real products on crypto rails.

Meanwhile, OpenAI is axing one of its flashiest tools to bet bigger on AI agents.

Markets shrugged off geopolitical noise and pushed higher anyway.

Franklin Templeton makes tokenized ETFs tradeable around the clock in crypto wallets

Franklin Templeton now manages $1.68 trillion and is betting big on blockchain-native funds.

Its Benji platform already runs the first US-registered money market fund on-chain, with $557M in assets.

Now the firm is extending that playbook to ETFs that trade 24/7 inside crypto wallets.

Traditional market hours might soon feel like a relic.

Get the full story →

STORY CONTINUES BELOW

The crypto news you actually need.

Join our newsletter.

Markets

Markets rally despite Iran calling US demands excessive

The US sent Iran a 15-point proposal including limits on defense capabilities and proxy support.

Tehran called the terms excessive and refused to let Trump dictate the war timeline.

Markets shrugged it off anyway, with risk assets climbing across the board.

BTC pushed near $71K, ETH climbed past $2.1K, and SOL edged toward $92.

Keep reading →

Tom Lee's Bitmine launches US-based Ethereum staking for institutions

Bitmine just unveiled MAVAN, a Made-in-America validator network for Ethereum staking.

The platform is designed to give institutions a compliant, domestic on-ramp to staking yield.

Bitmine's stock moved higher on the news, signaling Wall Street is paying attention.

Read the full breakdown →

OpenAI is shutting down Sora to go all-in on AI agents

OpenAI will kill its Sora video app just months after launching it.

The company says it needs the compute power for its core AI models and agent products.

In English: generating videos is expensive, and OpenAI decided agents are a better bet.

Read the full breakdown →

On Our Radar

The robot economy is getting funded: TRON DAO commits $1 billion to AI agents.*

Oracle upgrade: Coinbase and Chainlink are bringing real exchange data directly onto blockchains.

The Meta Pivot: Zuckerberg quietly abandons metaverse dreams for an AI-focused future.

*sponsored

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The Defiant NewsletterSubscribe for free to the highest signal-to-noise newsletter in crypto. Read what matters, skip the rest. Join 100k crypto-natives to what the NYT calls "an industry must-read."