Franklin Templeton

Franklin Templeton Benji is the manager’s blockchain-integrated recordkeeping and transfer-agent platform for tokenised fund shares. This integration recognises the official Ethereum contracts for the Franklin OnChain U.S. Government Money Fund (BENJI) and Franklin OnChain Institutional Liquidity Fund Ltd. (iBENJI), as listed in the issuer’s contract registry.

The contracts are permissioned ERC-20 fund-share proxies, not ERC-4626 vaults. Public subscriptions, redemptions and transfers are deliberately unavailable through the adapter because they require investor approval and the issuer’s transfer-agent servicing flow. Stellar BENJI and other non-Ethereum Benji deployments are outside this integration and have separate identifiers.

Historical prices

The adapter samples totalSupply() and the issuer-maintained lastKnownPrice() at the same Ethereum archive block. lastKnownPrice is decoded as base-18 USD per share, and TVL is calculated as share supply times that reference price. The reference is administrator-maintained, so consumers must validate current NAV and freshness against the issuer’s fund materials before relying on it for investment or operational decisions.

Fees and limitations

The token contracts do not expose a general fund-fee schedule, so the adapter does not manufacture management, performance, entry or exit fees. Fund terms, eligibility and liquidity arrangements are product-specific. The integration is read-only and does not assert that a holder may transfer, subscribe or redeem shares.

eth_defi.tokenised_fund.franklin.constants	Franklin Templeton Benji Ethereum product registry.
eth_defi.tokenised_fund.franklin.vault	Franklin Templeton Benji tokenised-fund adapter.
eth_defi.tokenised_fund.franklin.historical	Historical reader for Franklin Templeton Benji fund shares.