Inside Benji: How a $1.5 Trillion Asset Manager Built Its Own Blockchain Money Fund
25 Aug 2026 · 44:54
Roger Bayston, who has led Franklin Templeton's digital asset strategy since its earliest days, joins Converge host Chris Storaker to explain what it took for a $1.5 trillion asset manager to put a mutual fund on a public blockchain. They unpack the Benji tokenization platform, the regulatory groundwork behind Franklin's tokenized money market fund FOBXX, stablecoin yield economics, and the network effects Bayston expects to determine which players win in tokenized finance.