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Franklin Templeton says stocks alone not enough in AI era, altcoins needed

Asset manager Franklin Templeton said that as agentic artificial intelligence spreads, stocks alone may not capture all investment opportunities and holding cryptocurrencies and altcoins may be necessary. Its digital assets and innovation head Sandy Kaul said rising on-chain transactions by autonomous AI agents could make tokens issued by related networks a core portfolio asset. She argued existing card and bank rails are ill-suited for machine-to-machine micropayments and cited projections for rapid market growth and adoption.

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XRPL AI payments top 1 million transactions as real-world use expands

The XRP ecosystem is expanding its use into AI payments, institutional infrastructure and on-chain lending despite macroeconomic uncertainty. Evernodes CEO Aashish Birla said AI agents processed close to 1 million payments on XRPL in about a month, citing t54ai on-chain data. He said DTCC included XRP in learning materials but it does not mean DTCC will accept it as collateral. RippleX confirmed tests for XLS-66 on-chain lending.

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Japan\'s SBI backs Solana to target yen stablecoin and RWA markets

Japan\'s SBI Holdings is partnering with the Solana Foundation to build onchain financial infrastructure targeting Japan\'s real-world asset (RWA) and stablecoin markets. SBI will overhaul subsidiary SBI R3 Japan, renaming it SBI Solana Global, and work with Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group to pursue a yen-linked stablecoin and tokenisation of assets such as corporate bonds, commercial paper and real estate. SBI says it will keep a multi-chain strategy, with Ripple handling existing payment infrastructure.