Roger Bayston

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Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing · Why Franklin Templeton Has Been Eyeing Tokenization for a Decade and What Comes After Money Funds | Roger Bayston · 14 Jul 2026 podcast

Well, we knew that money funds were in the transaction economy because we were involved many, many years ago in putting check writing capabilities on top of money funds.

So people would have a money fund, they're have a balance in a fun money fund and back when people used to actually open up a checkbook and, you know, put their signature on it.

I d uh straight up honest with you, I tried to write a check the other day and it first of all my you know, my cursive in print just

Does it work this 'cause I'm typing on a keyboard.

Um you know, primarily now.

But the idea that um that that you could pay for things with your money fund

And the idea that if you could do that without having to write a cheque or use a debit card, but now you can actually weave

you know, a a money fund right in a blockchain rails into the payment ecosystem solves a lot of problems, reduces a lot of friction, puts a lot of money into the um and more control into the people that hold the money funds themselves rather than in the mechanism that just moves money around, quite frankly.

So um yeah, we saw the possibilities for that.

Um just because we knew that money was in the transactional economy and

And well truly what's unfolding, um, is not just tokenized money funds but tokenized deposits.

You know, from a macroeconomic perspective, the money supply

people at the Fed, you know, track M one, which is just fiat cash, and then they track M two, which includes deposits and money funds.

We're really taking this M two and increasing the velocity to make it act just like

Uh fiat, quite frankly.

Um so we see the adoption rates, quite frankly.

Um while they have been um

really adoption rates on anything crypto is all gonna be related to the digital wallet expansion.

You can't own anything in crypto if you don't have a digital wallet.

And clearly the securities businesses have been

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