Franklin Templeton Backs Ondo Finance for 24/7 Blockchain Stock Trading with $1.7 Trillion AUM

Global investment giant Franklin Templeton, overseeing $1.7 trillion in assets, has announced a strategic partnership with Ondo Finance. This collaboration aims to leverage blockchain technology to enable round-the-clock trading of tokenized stocks and other traditional financial assets. The initiative focuses on bringing key equity products to the blockchain, providing investors with continuous market access beyond standard trading hours. This major endorsement from a traditional finance titan signals growing institutional adoption of decentralized finance (DeFi) infrastructure for real-world assets (RWA). Ondo's ONDO token is central to this ecosystem for asset tokenization and governance.