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Franklin Templeton: The Agentic Economy Could Become Blockchain’s Biggest Use Case
Franklin Templeton is one of the world’s largest asset managers, overseeing around $1.8 trillion. The company sees AI agents as a potential breakthrough use case for crypto.
The logic is straightforward: AI agents will independently purchase data, computing power, and services, pay for APIs, execute transactions, and interact with one another.
Traditional banks and card networks were built for people and relatively large payments. They are poorly suited for a world where an agent may need to instantly pay another agent or service just $0.001.
Blockchain gives agents what they currently lack:
🤖 digital identity;
💳 autonomous payments;
📜 a transparent record of actions;
🔐 the ability to own assets;
⚡️ instant settlement without intermediaries.