BounceBit, a crypto infrastructure supplier that mixes options of centralized and decentralized finance (CeDeFi), is bringing Franklin Templeton’s tokenized cash market fund into its structured yield platform BB Prime, combining U.S. Treasury yields with crypto funding and foundation arbitrage methods.
The tokenized fund, which belongs to the suite of BENJI products, will function a collateral and settlement instrument for funding methods. This fashion, buyers can reap the underlying Treasury yield whereas including further return sources.
Tokenized cash market funds, now a roughly $7 billion asset class, have been on the forefront of tokenization efforts. World asset supervisor BlackRock created with tokenization agency Securitize the BUIDL token, backed by short-term U.S. authorities securities, and it is turning into more and more accepted as collateral on exchanges. In the meantime, Financial institution of New York Mellon and Goldman Sachs not too long ago rolled out tokenized cash market funds as institutional buyers.
Franklin Templeton, one of many earliest conventional asset managers to concern tokenized funds on public blockchains, first launched its tokenized U.S. cash market fund BENJI in 2021. “We’ve structured our suite of BENJI tokenized cash market fund merchandise to assist a variety of worldwide consumer wants throughout retail, wealth, institutional, financial institution and collateral use circumstances,” the agency stated in an announcement.
BounceBit have labored with FT to include operational use of its tokens in lively yield methods, marking what BounceBit CEO Jack Lu described as “the primary real-world utility of tokenized Treasuries in lively yield methods.”
“Partnering with Wall Road titans like Franklin Templeton signifies that institutional-grade RWA merchandise have moved past experimentation into scalable, usable infrastructure,” Lu stated.
The launch follows BounceBit’s earlier pilot utilizing BlackRock’s BUIDL token as collateral for a bitcoin derivatives technique that produced over 20% annualized returns.
BB Prime is presently accepting pre-registrations forward of a public rollout.
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