Franklin Templeton Disrupts Stale Yield Market with Real-Time Payouts on Benji Platform
Wall Street''s sleeping giant just woke up—and it''s wielding blockchain like a scalpel.
Franklin Templeton''s Benji platform now delivers yield payouts by the second, bypassing traditional finance''s glacial settlement cycles. No more waiting for end-of-month statements while your capital gathers dust.
The move pressures legacy institutions still reconciling accounts with fax machines and Excel spreadsheets. Because nothing says ''innovation'' like a 20th-century tech stack.
Active investors get immediate reinvestment capabilities—compound interest on steroids. Passive holders? They''ll finally see what their money''s doing between quarterly reports.
One question remains: Will traditional finance adapt, or keep pretending blockchain is just a ''trend'' while eating Templeton''s dust?
Transfers, Self-Custody, Purchases, and Redemptions
The press release shared with Cryptonews explains that the current prevailing industry standard is to determine share ownership and calculate yield at the end of a trading day. It’s distributed to investors at the end of the month. Therefore, Intraday Yield works to enhance this approach, the company argues.
Roger Bayston, Head of Digital Assets at Franklin Templeton, commented that the new feature is “one example of how we’re bringing the real, tangible advantages of blockchains to our global client base as well as to new partners and investors.”
“We believe features that are possible due to the composability of the blockchain environment, like Intraday Yield, have the potential to become an industry standard, ensuring that investors facilitating transactions of any size can realize the increased benefits and utilities of blockchain operating environments,” Bayston says.
Moreover, besides Intraday Yield, Franklin Templeton has introduced additional capabilities via Benji. The first is wallet-to-wallet transfers. This enables peer-to-peer transfer of digital tokens via permissioned wallet addresses on supported blockchain networks.
Next, the company has added stablecoin on-ramps and redemption. Investors can use stablecoins to buy and redeemtokens. Lastly, there is permissioned self-custody, allowing external wallets on supported blockchains to hold BENJI tokens.
“We believe the future will be a blockchain-based system delivered with the trust, scale, and regulatory rigor that investors expect,” said Sandy Kaul, Head of Innovation at Franklin Templeton.
Franklin Templeton is excited to launch $EZPZ, our latest exchange-traded product (ETP) that provides exposure to bitcoin and ether without the hassle of buying them directly.
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Meanwhile, Franklin Templeton has 1.53 trillion in assets under management as of 30 April 2025. In February this year, it launched the, as well as a tokenized money market fund,, on.
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