Today marks another major step in the evolution of institutional crypto markets.

Binance is excited to introduce its latest institutional initiative in collaboration with Franklin Templeton, one of the world’s leading asset managers. Through this integration, eligible institutional clients can now utilize tokenized shares of Franklin Templeton’s money market funds — issued via the Benji Technology Platform — as off-exchange collateral for trading activity on Binance.

This development significantly enhances capital efficiency. Instead of holding idle cash or stablecoins on-exchange, institutions can maintain exposure to yield-bearing money market fund shares while simultaneously deploying them as trading collateral. The result is a more flexible structure that aligns traditional treasury management practices with the speed and liquidity of digital asset markets.

By bridging tokenized real-world assets with crypto trading infrastructure, Binance continues to strengthen the connection between traditional finance and digital assets. The integration of tokenized funds into collateral frameworks represents a meaningful step toward institutional-grade risk management, improved balance sheet optimization, and broader adoption of blockchain-based financial rails.

As demand for regulated, yield-generating on-chain assets continues to grow, initiatives like this demonstrate how global asset managers and crypto platforms can work together to modernize capital markets.

The future of finance isn’t about choosing between TradFi and crypto — it’s about combining the strengths of both.