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COINBASE’S L2 BASE WELCOMES FRANKLIN TEMPLETON’S TOKENIZED FUND
Coinbase’s Ethereum scaling solution has onboarded its first large wealth manager, Franklin Templeton, the $1.5 trillion Wall Street firm.
Franklin Templeton announced that users can trade shares of its OnChain U.S. Government Money Market Fund, FOBXX, on the layer-2 network Base.
FOBXX, with $410 million in assets, has already launched on five other blockchains, including Arbitrum, Polygon, Avalanche, Aptos, and Stellar, making Base the sixth blockchain to support Franklin Templeton’s tokenized Treasury fund.
The announcement represents another crossover between traditional and decentralized finance markets. Fellow asset manager BlackRock recently launched its USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund, also known as BUIDL, on Ethereum’s mainnet partnered with ETH-native protocols like Ethena Labs.
While BlackRock launched on a layer-1 network and maintains the largest on-chain money market, Franklin Templeton has focused on layer-2 networks for its FOBXX fund.
L2’s run off layer-1 blockchains but provide cheaper and quicker transactions. As such, they offer optimized environments for on-chain money markets and tokenized treasuries.
Franklin Templeton’s FOBXX was the first money market fund to employ decentralized technology for trading, and the firm picked L2 Arbitrum as its first home.
Launching on Coinbase’s layer-2 may further boost Base’s growth. Since going live in 2022, the network has attracted over $2.6 billion in user deposits and was the fifth-largest decentralized finance blockchain at the time of writing, according to DeFiLlama.
Base, launched by the largest U.S.-based crypto exchange, also ranks as Ethereum’s top scaling solution based on active addresses, total value locked, and 24-hour volume.
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HKEX TO USE SMART CONTRACTS, DLT TO AUTOMATE ETP ISSUANCE, REDEMPTION
Today the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) announced plans to automate the creation and redemption of some exchange traded products (ETPs) in 2025. The new web based platform will use distributed ledger technology and smart contracts and is subject to regulatory approval.
The aim is to boost efficiency and encourage more secondary market activity.
“Speed and efficiency are critical in an increasingly dynamic market environment,” said Jean-Francois Mesnard-Sense. “HKEX is pleased to introduce this new digital enhancement.
It will not only streamline operations for our market participants, but also drive more liquidity in the product ecosystem, supporting the vibrancy of our ETP marketplace and strengthening Hong Kong’s role as an international financial centre.”
While HKEX did not use the term real time, in theory an automated platform could support this. Given stock exchanges are not retail facing, it’s usually market makers that would trigger the creation and redemption process.
HKEX didn’t disclose the technology used, and hasn’t responded to our query by publication time. However, HKEX’s previous DLT activity for its HKEX Synapse settlement platform launched in 2023 uses Digital Asset’s DAML and Canton.
ETPs in Hong Kong are growing at a rate of 29 percent a year since 2020. Average daily turnover this year has been HK$17.9 billion (US$2.3 billion).
In Europe Deutsche Börse, which also uses DAML technology, developed its D7 issuance platform. It also automates workflow and has proven popular for structured products with tens of thousands of issuances per month.
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Source: Ledger Insights
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