## KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Animoca Brands and Franklin Templeton have agreed a strategic collaboration to add tokenised real-world assets to NUVA, a vault marketplace co-incubated by Animoca Brands and Nuva Labs.
- The arrangement broadens NUVA beyond its launch offering, which provided access to assets based on the Provenance Blockchain, to assets from a wider group of issuers.
- The companies cited more than USD $30 billion in total value locked on the Provenance Blockchain as of late September, a figure that indicates the scale of the ecosystem NUVA draws from.
- The deal is aimed at connecting conventional investment products with blockchain-based distribution, reflecting a broader push by asset managers to move tokenisation into mainstream institutional workflows.
## DETAILED SUMMARY
Animoca Brands and Franklin Templeton have agreed on a strategic collaboration to bring tokenised real-world assets to the NUVA marketplace, according to the original report. NUVA is a vault marketplace co-incubated by Animoca Brands and Nuva Labs. The platform launched with access to assets based on the Provenance Blockchain, and the new arrangement is intended to expand that offering to assets from a wider group of issuers rather than limiting the marketplace to a single blockchain-linked asset base.
The collaboration centres on linking more conventional investment products with blockchain-based distribution. Franklin Templeton has been active in digital asset products and tokenisation, while Animoca Brands has built much of its business around digital assets and related infrastructure. The companies said the Provenance Blockchain network held more than USD $30 billion in total value locked as of late September, indicating the scale of assets already associated with the ecosystem from which NUVA emerged.
Publisher material from Animoca Brands and Franklin Templeton describes the partnership as an effort to explore and facilitate institutional adoption of tokenised assets. Franklin Templeton has separately been reported to plan use of its tokenised money-market fund within ETFs and mutual funds, either as a holding or as collateral, and to have expanded its tokenisation platform so that regulated fund shares can be held and traded 24/7. Animoca Brands has also backed a tokenisation initiative with Republic that gives eligible investors worldwide access to Animoca Brands equity. These items are context for the firms' wider tokenisation activity and are not terms of the NUVA arrangement itself.
The announcement comes as large asset managers and digital asset groups continue to test whether tokenisation can move from niche use cases into mainstream institutional workflows. Tokenisation generally refers to representing ownership rights in assets on blockchain-based systems, which advocates say can improve transfer, administration and access. The original report did not disclose financial terms of the collaboration, timing for new assets to appear on NUVA, or the identities of the additional issuers.
