Franklin Templeton’s Benji Technology Platform expanded to the Canton Network on November 12, 2025, adding another distribution environment for the investment manager’s tokenized products. The announcement focused on institutional access and possible uses in liquidity and collateral workflows.
Benji is Franklin Templeton’s blockchain-integrated technology stack for administering token-based investments. The company used the platform when it launched a U.S.-registered mutual fund in 2021 with blockchain technology recording share ownership. The Canton announcement said the integration would extend regulated tokenized instruments to the network, but it did not provide a value for assets deployed through this specific connection.
Canton describes itself as a public, permissionless network with configurable privacy. That does not mean every application running on it is open to every user. According to the network’s official FAQ, each application can set its own access and disclosure rules, ranging from permissionless to private. Franklin Templeton said the integration gives clients a private blockchain option alongside interoperability.
QCP said it planned to use the platform as a source of liquidity within Canton’s Global Collateral Network. The statement described an intended use; it did not report completed transactions, immediate trading activity or a measured increase in liquidity.
The release put Franklin Templeton’s total assets under management at $1.69 trillion as of October 31, 2025. That company-wide figure was context about the asset manager, not the value of assets placed on Canton. Likewise, a separate $135 million financing announced in June 2025 was raised by Digital Asset, the company that originally developed Canton, rather than by the Benji integration itself.
