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According to ChianCatcher news, as reported by CoinDesk, the U.S. SEC's Investment Management Division has issued a no-action letter to Franklin Templeton, allowing its registered funds to use the on-chain money market fund FOBXX (also known as BENJI) to manage cash and collateral via blockchain, rather than following traditional custody rules.This letter is based on Section 17(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 and Rule 17f-2, allowing registered funds to hold shares of FOBXX without meeting certain physical custody requirements. This supports intraday trading, hourly net asset value calculations, and faster transaction processing. FOBXX primarily invests in U.S. government securities and aims to maintain a stable share price of $1, and has expanded to multiple blockchains.

According to IT Home, IDC has released the report "China Exoskeleton Robot Market Share, 2025" for the first time. The market size of China's exoskeleton robot market will exceed 1.6 billion yuan in 2025, with a shipment volume of approximately 26,000 units. Among them, the medical rehabilitation market is the largest, with a scale of about 1.42 billion yuan and shipments of about 3,200 units; the consumer assistive market contributes over 70% of the shipment volume, approximately 19,000 units, with a market size of nearly 110 million yuan, driven by an aging population and declining costs, becoming the fastest-growing segment; the industrial application market is about 80 million yuan, with shipments of about 3,800 units, mainly applied in logistics warehousing, automotive manufacturing, and power energy scenarios.IDC pointed out that the three major segments have formed a collaborative development pattern, and the industry is accelerating its evolution from a single medical application to multi-scenario human capability enhancement equipment. In the medical rehabilitation field, companies like Fourier Intelligence, Cheng Tian Technology, and Mabu Robotics are leading; in the consumer assistive field, Cheng Tian Technology, Kenking Technology, and Jike are at the forefront; in the industrial application field, Ao Sha Intelligent, Cheng Tian Technology, and Mabu Intelligent occupy major shares.

Asset management giant Franklin Templeton publicly expressed support for the CLARITY Act on platform X, stating that the act will clarify the regulatory approach to cryptocurrencies, inform investors of applicable protections, and specify which regulatory agency governs businesses. The company stated, "It's time to provide the clarity the industry needs."

Blockchain data infrastructure startup Cambrian has completed a $6 million seed round financing, led by Franklin Templeton and Polychain Capital, with participation from Flow Traders, Selini Capital, Paper Ventures, Nomad Capital, and others.Cambrian also previously secured $5.9 million in pre-seed financing led by a16z Crypto Startup Accelerator, bringing the total funding to $11.9 million. It is reported that Cambrian was established in 2024 and currently provides APIs for institutions and AI Agents, covering real-time and historical on-chain data such as yield, risk, lending rates, trading activity, liquidity positions, and market sentiment, helping users allocate capital on-chain.The company plans to expand its existing APIs into a verifiable blockchain data oracle network, serving institutional financial clients, AI Agent builders, and protocols that need reliable data to control the flow of funds. Unlike traditional oracles that mainly provide price data, Cambrian aims to aggregate lending protocol data, DEX liquidity, social sentiment, developer activity, and historical market data.According to Cambrian, its platform has processed millions of API calls, currently indexing approximately $4.5 billion TVL across four major lending protocols, tracking 1,789 vaults under 895 curators, and monitoring over 320,000 DEX liquidity pools on Base and Solana. The company also plans to expand trading data support, adding Hyperliquid and richer perpetual contract data.

Franklin Templeton announced that it has completed the acquisition of the cryptocurrency asset management company 250 Digital. The deal includes its entire team and all liquidity cryptocurrency strategies previously managed by CoinFund. Franklin Templeton will also invest in related products.The company has simultaneously established a dedicated active digital asset management department, Franklin Crypto, led by Christopher Perkins as the head, with Seth Ginns serving as the Chief Investment Officer, and jointly led with Tony Pecore, a member of the Franklin Templeton Digital Assets investment team. Franklin Crypto will provide actively managed cryptocurrency investment strategies to institutional investors based on Franklin Templeton's existing digital asset research and risk management framework.

According to Solid Intel, asset management company Franklin Templeton has submitted a new ETF application to regulators, with a product structure that allows cash dividends from held stocks to be automatically reinvested in Bitcoin.

According to Jinshi reports, the CEO of Franklin Templeton stated that the company will participate in the SpaceX IPO.

According to Decrypt, Kraken's parent company Payward has announced a strategic partnership with asset management giant Franklin Templeton to bring some traditional financial products (including tokenized stocks and yield products) to the blockchain network. The two parties will integrate Franklin Templeton's tokenized money market fund BENJI into the Kraken platform as collateral and cash management tools for institutional clients.Payward's xStocks framework (which has processed over $30 billion in transaction volume since its launch last year) will collaborate with Franklin Templeton to explore new on-chain actively managed products, making its investment strategies available to institutions and some retail investors in specific jurisdictions. Franklin Templeton has also recently advanced its crypto business division, Franklin Crypto, by acquiring the crypto investment firm 250 Digital.

According to market news, Franklin Templeton has agreed to acquire CoinFund's spin-off company as part of its digital asset expansion and is launching new crypto strategies aimed at institutional investors.

According to Bloomberg, Franklin Templeton announced a partnership with Ondo Finance to launch tokenized ETFs that can be traded directly in cryptocurrency wallets, enabling 24/7 trading and breaking through the limitations of traditional brokerage accounts and trading hours.The product covers asset classes such as U.S. stocks, fixed income, and gold, and will initially be launched in Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and Latin America. The launch in the U.S. market still depends on further clarification from regulators regarding on-chain distribution of registered funds.

AI infrastructure company t54 Labs announced the completion of a $5 million seed round financing, led by Anagram, PL Capital, and Franklin Templeton, with participation from institutions such as Ripple.The project primarily provides infrastructure for autonomous trading AI agents, including identity verification, real-time risk control, compliance, and settlement integration, and plans to offer credit lines to agents based on identity and risk scores. Currently, the protocol has been deployed on XRP Ledger, Solana, and Base, and has launched the open-source component x402-secure built on the Coinbase incubated x402 payment protocol.

According to the official announcement, Binance and Franklin Templeton have launched their first collaborative product - the Institutional OTC Collateral Program. This program allows eligible institutional clients to use tokenized money market fund (MMF) shares issued through the Franklin Templeton Benji technology platform as collateral for trading on Binance.This initiative aims to enable institutional traders to participate in the digital market using traditional, regulated, and yield-generating money market fund assets without the need to deposit assets into the exchange, thereby reducing counterparty risk and earning returns.

The open-source AI platform Sentient announced on platform X that Franklin Templeton has become a strategic investor in Sentient. In the coming months, Sentient will collaborate with Franklin Templeton to drive the development of high-risk AI use cases in the financial sector—bringing open-source reasoning into real-world, production-level business processes.

Franklin Templeton official update on XRP spot ETF holdings data, as of December 31, 2025, its XRP holdings have reached 118,387,154.16 coins, with a market value of 215,197,065.61 USD, and the current number of outstanding shares is 10,700,000.Historical data shows that the market value of Franklin XRP ETF holdings surpassed 100 million USD on December 1, indicating a monthly growth of approximately 100.9%.

Franklin Templeton's official update on the holdings data of its XRP spot ETF shows that, as of now, the ETF's XRP holdings have surpassed 100 million for the first time, reaching 101,552,283.62 XRP (custodied by Coinbase Custody), with a market value of $192,683,271.89.In addition, the total net asset size of the ETF is currently $183.41 million, with a current number of outstanding shares of 8,900,000.

Franklin Templeton's XRP spot ETF has increased its holdings to nearly 63 million in its first week of listing. As of December 5, the ETF's XRP holdings have reached 62,994,999.475 coins (custodied by Coinbase Custody), with a market value of approximately $127,838,272.22.In addition, the total net asset size of the ETF is currently $125.63 million, and the number of outstanding shares has expanded to 5.7 million.