Franklin Templeton Brings Tokenised Collateral to Bybit
Updated: 13 hours ago
TL;DR: Franklin Templeton's tokenised money-market fund can now be used as collateral on Bybit, a concrete example of traditional finance and crypto exchanges wiring themselves together.
Tokenised treasuries go to work
Franklin Templeton, one of the earliest large asset managers in tokenisation, is letting its on-chain money-market fund serve as trading collateral on the exchange Bybit. Instead of parking idle cash, traders can post a yield-bearing, tokenised fund as margin — capital that works in two places at once.
Why institutions care
This is the practical face of the real-world-assets narrative that dominated 2026. Tokenised treasuries give institutions a familiar, regulated, yield-bearing instrument that also plugs into crypto-native venues.
The collateral use-case is the killer app — it turns tokenisation from a storage novelty into working capital, and it gives exchanges a stickier, higher-quality asset base. For asset managers, being the default tokenised collateral on major venues is a land-grab worth chasing.
Quick FAQ
Q: What is a tokenised money-market fund?
A regulated fund — typically holding short-term government debt — whose shares are represented as blockchain tokens that can move and settle on-chain.
Q: Why use it as collateral?
It earns yield while also backing trades, improving capital efficiency compared with holding idle stablecoins or cash.
The takeaway: Tokenised treasuries are becoming productive collateral. The Franklin Templeton–Bybit link shows traditional funds quietly becoming crypto's institutional plumbing.
How is your business thinking about this shift? We'd love to hear where you see digital finance heading next.
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Source: Compiled from CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, The Block and Decrypt reporting, September 2026.
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Written by Daniel Nikolla, Founder of Merx Marketing Ltd and Marketing Minute
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