Nov 12, 2025

Franklin Templeton Expands Benji Technology Platform to Canton Network The move links traditional finance infrastructure with blockchain rails as major institutions push deeper into tokenized markets. (Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk) What to know: The integration adds new liquidity and collateral sources for institutions. The move signals rising institutional adoption of tokenized finance. The Canton Network said that Franklin Templeton’s Benji Technology Platform is now live on its blockchain, expanding the asset manager’s presence in regulated digital markets and giving institutional investors wider access to tokenized investment products. The move links Franklin Templeton’s blockchain infrastructure to Canton’s Global Collateral Network, a distributed system designed to connect traditional finance with on-chain markets. The integration gives market makers and institutions a new source of liquidity and collateral while maintaining compliance and privacy standards, according to an emailed announcement on Wednesday. STORY CONTINUES BELOW Sign me up By signing up, you will receive emails about CoinDesk products and you agree to our terms of use and privacy policy . Franklin Templeton’s Benji platform underpins its tokenization strategy, powering the first U.S.-registered mutual fund to use blockchain for transactions and recordkeeping in 2021. Since then, the firm has rolled out several tokenized products spanning retail, wealth, and institutional clients. “Our bottom line is to meet institutions where they are, and just as importantly, where they’re headed,” Roger Bayston, head of digital assets at Franklin Templeton, said in the release. “Integrating with the Canton Network gives clients interoperability and privacy without compromising transparency or security.” The partnership also strengthens Canton’s role in institutional decentralized finance (DeFi), particularly through its Global Collateral Network. Singapore-based trading firm QCP plans to tap into the platform for liquidity, the release said. Canton Network, developed by Digital Asset and backed by firms including Goldman Sachs (GS), BNP Paribas (BNP), and Broadridge (BR), aims to create a permissioned blockchain infrastructure connecting traditional and digital markets. The addition of Franklin Templeton’s technology brings a new layer of tokenized financial products to its expanding institutional ecosystem. Nov 11, 2025 The upgrade aims to make Injective a go-to platform by combining Ethereum compatibility with Injective’s existing high-speed infrastructure. What to know: Layer-1 blockchain Injective has rolled out what it calls its most significant upgrade yet: a native Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) layer. The upgrade aims to make Injective a go-to platform for developers and institutions by combining Ethereum compatibility with Injective’s existing high-speed infrastructure. Developers building on Injective can build using both WebAssembly (WASM) and EVM environments within one unified ecosystem, so applications can share liquidity, assets, and modules across the network, removing one of the biggest pain points in blockchain development: fragmentation.