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This time around, we’re diving headfirst into a new Avalanche partnership for Franklin Templeton, and the crew at Delphi give us all a cycle update. 

Carving up turf

A war is being fought over blockchain mindshare by two of Wall Street’s largest operators.

Some would say Franklin Templeton started it by rolling out a tokenized money market fund, FOBXX, on Stellar in 2021. 

The fund, which buys government securities with customer cash…

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