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Story: Franklin Templeton Admits Blockchain Threatens Wall Street’s Core Revenue Streams

By Evie Vavasseur

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What Happened. The acknowledgment is candid in a way Wall Street rarely does candid.

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The Historical Context. It's not the first time an entrenched industry got blindsided by a technology it underestimated.

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Why It Matters for Crypto. There's a flip side here that doesn't get enough attention.

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What to Watch. Franklin Templeton's strategic moves over the coming months will be telling.

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Wall Street has always known. But nobody said it out loud — not like this.

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Franklin Templeton's leadership has made a candid acknowledgment that blockchain technology hits traditional financial intermediaries right where it hurts: the revenue.

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The fear has been there for years. Quietly.

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Traders and analysts inside traditional finance have watched blockchain creep into conversations about settlement times, custody, transaction fees, and clearing infrastructure.

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The acknowledgment is candid in a way Wall Street rarely does candid. Franklin Templeton's leadership didn't just gesture vaguely at "disruption" — they pointed at blockchain as…

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For the crypto sector, it's a legitimacy boost. Not a small one. When a firm with Franklin Templeton's footprint says blockchain threatens the old model, institutional investors…

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No details on exactly which revenue streams Franklin Templeton flagged. Unclear whether they named specific business lines or kept it broad. But the direction isn't ambiguous.

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It's not the first time an entrenched industry got blindsided by a technology it underestimated. Traditional media and the internet is the obvious parallel.

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See also: Avalanche Processes 60,000 FIFA World Cup Tickets on Blockchain Network

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Online brokers did something similar to traditional brokerage models. Robinhood didn't just compete — it forced a structural shift toward commission-free trading across the whole…

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Blockchain is probably at that same inflection point now. Maybe earlier. But the Franklin Templeton admission suggests the timeline is compressing.

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