Franklin Templeton has brought its Benji Technology Platform to BNB Chain, marking a strategic step in scaling tokenized financial assets across new blockchain environments. The move reflects the firm’s intention to broaden access to tokenized products by leveraging BNB Chain’s high-throughput and cost-efficient infrastructure.
With this expansion, the investment management firm continues its multi-chain strategy by adding BNB Chain to a roster that already includes Stellar, Ethereum, and VeChain. The firm’s Benji platform facilitates around-the-clock trading, yield distribution, and digital asset management, most notably through the BENJI token, which represents shares in its OnChain U.S. Government Money Fund.
Roger Bayston, Head of Digital Assets at Franklin Templeton, said the expansion is about meeting investors where they are and pushing tokenization forward with security and compliance at its core. “Together, Franklin Templeton and BNB Chain will work to deliver tokenized assets with greater utility, and enhanced features for retail and institutional clients across the globe,” Bayston stated.
The partnership arrives at a time when real-world asset (RWA) tokenization is gaining traction among institutions. BNB Chain currently hosts over $542 million in tokenized RWAs, according to Dune data, and the market is projected to reach $30 trillion by 2030. Franklin Templeton’s latest moves shifts its pilot project to production-grade deployments, suggesting the firm sees tokenization not as a future concept, but as a live, evolving infrastructure for global finance.
