Franklin Templeton Acquires 250 Digital to Launch Franklin Crypto Institutional Unit
Franklin Templeton has agreed to acquire 250 Digital, a crypto trading firm spun out of venture capital firm Coinfund, to launch a dedicated institutional crypto investment arm called Franklin Crypto. Franklin Templeton...
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Older archive item. Useful for background and entity history, but not a fresh market-moving signal.
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This maps to the Institutional Adoption hub, so it can help confirm whether that theme is gaining breadth across the crypto news cycle.
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