Franklin Templeton brings BENJI tokenized funds onto MoonPay

Franklin Templeton, the leading asset manager overseeing roughly $1.7 trillion, and MoonPay, the crypto payments infrastructure company, have formed a strategic partnership to improve access to tokenized financial products, the companies announced Tuesday.

The first phase integrates Franklin Templeton’s Benji Technology Platform with MoonPay Trade. Eligible institutional users can now swap between stablecoins and exposure to Franklin Templeton’s tokenized money market funds without leaving the blockchain.

For MoonPay, this is one of its first moves beyond crypto, fiat, and stablecoins into tokenized fund shares that behave like onchain assets.

Using MoonPay Trade’s execution and routing infrastructure, the integration is designed to simplify access to Franklin’s tokenized money market offerings. It also provides users with improved pathways to stablecoin liquidity, supporting use cases such as treasury management, collateral optimization, and portfolio rebalancing.

“Tokenized money market funds only become more useful when they can move with the speed and programmability of the broader digital asset ecosystem,” Franklin Templeton’s Head of Innovation and Digital Assets, Sandy Kaul, stated. “For us, leadership in this space means doing the work to make that unlock possible, and teaming up with MoonPay creates another trusted gateway for institutions to move between stablecoin liquidity and tokenized fund exposure.”

“Digital assets like tokenized money market funds provide benefits like improved liquidity and capital efficiency, but only if institutions have access to the onchain financial ecosystem,” said Caroline Pham, CEO of MoonPay Institutional.

The companies describe the partnership as a foundation for expanded collaboration in tokenized finance and institutional onchain markets.