Animoca Brands partners with Franklin Templeton to expand NUVA’s tokenized asset lineup

Animoca Brands has found a heavyweight partner for its tokenized asset ambitions. On October 8, 2026, the company and Franklin Templeton announced a strategic partnership to expand institutional access to tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) through NUVA. NUVA is a vault marketplace built by Animoca Brands and Nuva Labs. Adding a firm that manages approximately $1.8 trillion in assets is one way to signal that the project is aiming beyond crypto natives. What the partnership covers The core goal is to broaden what NUVA offers. Specifically, the two companies want to bring in a wider range of assets beyond the Provenance Blockchain. Assets on Provenance recorded over $30 billion in total value locked (TVL) as of late September 2026. The partnership also plans to explore tokenizing cultural assets. Animoca Brands and Franklin Templeton will co-author a four-part research series on how traditional finance and decentralized finance (DeFi) are converging. How NUVA works NUVA went live on Ethereum Mainnet on May 13, 2026. It is a non-custodial platform, which means users keep control of their assets rather than handing them to an intermediary. Its vault tokens follow the ERC-20 standard, t...