Franklin Templeton: Building a Mutual Fund on Solana (Breakpoint 2024)
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🗓️ 27 September 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone. As you know, Solana is one of the ecosystems I'm the most interested in. |
| 0:06.9 | I've been incredibly bullish. I love to see the vibrancy of what is happening in the space. |
| 0:12.0 | Unfortunately, I couldn't make Breakpoint this year, but the stories have been |
| 0:16.7 | amazing. I heard the talks are incredible and we're really proud of Real Vision to give you |
| 0:27.0 | talks from Salana Breakpoint 2024 in Singapore. I'll say it's very bright up here, |
| 0:43.9 | so the size of the crowd isn't quite as intimidating |
| 0:46.0 | as it might be otherwise. |
| 0:46.8 | But hello, I'm Mike Reed, I run Partnership Development |
| 0:50.8 | at Franklin Templeton Investments. And I'm gonna talk to you today about putting a money fund on chain, |
| 0:55.0 | what that looks like, why we did it, and why we thought it would be a good idea. |
| 0:59.0 | As I was preparing for this, I realize that I think I have nine slides and now four and a half minutes to go through them |
| 1:06.0 | so I'm not going to go through this slide by slide. |
| 1:08.0 | I thought it would be better to tell you about our journey |
| 1:11.0 | and where we started and where we are now and why we're excited for the future. |
| 1:16.6 | Our idea, no one cares about that. |
| 1:20.6 | Say a load of tokenization. |
| 1:21.8 | Our idea was to try and find operational efficiencies in our overall business |
| 1:27.0 | by using blockchain technology. |
| 1:29.0 | And we thought that the idea of putting a money fund on chain quite frankly sounded kind of cool and |
| 1:33.7 | sounded fun so we began that process you know we chose a money fund very |
| 1:38.9 | specifically because money funds have long been in the transactional economy there's |
| 1:42.4 | money funds that have check writing |
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