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The hosts discuss Franklin Templeton and interview Sandy Kroll, the senior vice president, who shares insights on crypto adoption, the resistance of traditional finance towards crypto, and her opinion on Ethereum and Bitcoin ETFs. The chapter also includes a lightning round on CBDCs, stablecoins, and the 2024 election, and concludes with a sponsor message from DYDX chain.

✨ DEBRIEF | Ryan and David unpacking the episode: https://bankless.com/debrief-franklin-templeton

Franklin Templeton Has Entered the Chat. More broadly TradFi has entered the chat. Franklin Templeton is a TradFi company with $1.5 trillion in assets. We brought on their SVP Sandy Kaul, who is a turbo crypto bull.

What’s Franklin Templeton? It’s an investment management company (think mutual funds, ETFs) that manages over $1.5 Trillion in assets. This is what we in crypto affectionately refer to as TradFi and they recently came out with a BTC ETF and have big plans for future tokenization. They also seem to be incredibly bullish on crypto and this new intersection between crypto and TradFi. This is exactly what we wanted to explore with Sandy today.

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------ TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro 7:18 Explaining Crypto to TradFi 13:45 Why TradFi Waited 21:58 Explaining Tokens & Franklin Templeton’s Future Use 31:55 The Chameleon Asset 39:30 What’s Preventing Franklin Templeton? 46:27 Advice For Founders 48:37 Regulation Vibe Check 54:30 Countering Crypto Critiques 1:00:00 BTC & ETH ETF 1:12:16 Under or Over-Rated 1:15:00 Sandy’s Crypto Story 1:17:30 Franklin Templeton’s Twitter 1:19:20 Closing & Disclosures

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Franklin Templeton’s Twitter https://twitter.com/FTI_US

Sandy Kaul https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandy-kaul-8571877/

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