{"id":1000712,"date":"2026-04-02T08:09:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1000712"},"modified":"2026-04-02T09:13:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:43:34","slug":"franklin-templeton-to-acquire-coinfund-spinoff-to-expand-crypto-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/02\/franklin-templeton-to-acquire-coinfund-spinoff-to-expand-crypto-push\/","title":{"rendered":"Franklin Templeton to acquire CoinFund spinoff to expand crypto push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investment manager Franklin Templeton said on Wednesday it had agreed to acquire cryptocurrency investment unit 250 Digital, spun out of venture firm CoinFund, as it steps up its expansion into \u200cdigital \u2060assets. <\/p>\n<p>The deal \u2060comes as traditional financial firms ramp up \u200btheir presence in cryptocurrencies, supported by favorable policies under \u200bthe Trump administration. <\/p>\n<p>Franklin Templeton, which manages more than $1.7 trillion in assets, has been among the early movers \u2060in exploring \u200cblockchain technology and digital asset investing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investment manager Franklin Templeton said on Wednesday it had agreed to acquire cryptocurrency investment unit 250 Digital, spun out of venture firm CoinFund, as it steps up its expansion into \u200cdigital \u2060assets. The deal \u2060comes as traditional financial firms ramp up \u200btheir presence in cryptocurrencies, supported by favorable policies under \u200bthe Trump administration. Franklin Templeton, which manages more than $1.7 trillion in assets, has been among the early movers \u2060in exploring \u200cblockchain technology and digital asset investing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}