Bringing the real world onchain with @animocabrands. Animoca Brands and Franklin Templeton Collaborate to Expand Institutional Access to Tokenized Investments Strategic program aims to accelerate institutional adoption of tokenized real-world assets, and explores the co-design of tokenized cultural assets. SAN MATEO / HONG KONG, October 9, 2026 — Franklin Templeton, a global investment manager and leader in digital asset innovation, and Animoca Brands, a global digital assets and AI company, today announced a strategic collaboration to bring tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) to @NUVAFinance, the Animoca Brands-backed vault marketplace. The collaboration extends NUVA’s reach beyond its existing Provenance blockchain-based assets, unlocking access to institutional-grade assets from a broader base of asset issuers. Co-incubated by Animoca Brands and @NUVALabs, NUVA launched in May 2026 with vaults that unlock access to assets on the Provenance Blockchain, which holds over US$30 billion in total value locked as of 24 September 2026. “The convergence of traditional finance and digital assets has gone from the theoretical to being a real infrastructure play. Franklin Templeton is a pioneer in tokenizing traditional financial assets, and this partnership allows us to integrate institutional-grade RWAs directly into NUVA’s vault architecture.” said Yat Siu @ysiu, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Animoca Brands. “By combining battle-tested asset management with decentralized distribution, Nuva is expanding how institutional investors access RWAs.” The two firms have also launched a four-part, co-authored research series, which builds on Franklin Templeton’s decade-long commitment to expanding the utility of blockchain-enabled investment solutions within institutional workflows. The thought leadership series, now live at franklintempleton.com/tokeni… examines the strategic significance of tokenization for institutional investors, the developments that have brought the market to this point, and how tokenization is changing the way institutions evaluate assets and construct portfolios. “Tokenization is moving beyond simply putting traditional assets on blockchain rails. The next phase is about expanding how those assets can be accessed, utilized and integrated into increasingly digital investment ecosystems,” said Sandy Kaul, Head of Digital Assets and Innovation at Franklin Templeton. “Our collaboration with Animoca Brands and NUVA reflects that evolution, combining Franklin Templeton’s investment expertise and experience building blockchain-enabled solutions with new channels for delivering those capabilities to investors.” Franklin Templeton and Animoca Brands expect to build on these initiatives by exploring additional areas of collaboration, including opportunities for the co-design and tokenization of real-world cultural assets, with additional details expected later this year. ### About Franklin Templeton Franklin Templeton is a trusted investment partner, delivering tailored solutions that align with clients’ strategic goals. With deep portfolio management expertise across public and private markets, we combine investment excellence with cutting-edge technology. Since our founding in 1947, we have empowered clients through strategic partnership, forward-looking insights, and continuous innovation – providing the tools and resources to navigate change and capture opportunity. With more than 1,500 investment professionals, and offices in major financial markets around the world, the California-based company has over 75 years of investment experience and $1.83 trillion in assets under management as of 31 August 2026. To learn more, visit our website and follow us on LinkedIn. Franklin Templeton, Inc. [NYSE: BEN] About Animoca Brands Animoca Brands Corporation Limited (ACN: 122 921 813) is a global digital assets leader building and investing in impactful technologies and ecosystems to reimagine future economies through AI and the agentic web. It has received broad industry and market recognition including Fortune Crypto 40, Top 50 Blockchain Game Companies 2025, Financial Times’ High Growth Companies Asia-Pacific, and Deloitte Tech Fast. Animoca Brands is recognized for building digital asset platforms such as the Moca Network, Open Campus, Anichess, and The Sandbox, as well as institutional-grade platforms; providing digital asset services to help Web3 companies launch and grow; and investing in frontier Web3 technology, with a portfolio of over 600 companies and digital assets. For more information visit animocabrands.com or follow on X, YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and TikTok. About Nuva Labs Nuva Labs (formerly Provenance Blockchain Labs) powers digital asset issuers with a full lifecycle of blockchain infrastructure that enables the tokenization, management, and distributions of real-world assets at scale. From structuring advice and mission-critical APIs and SaaS services, to supporting broad, multi-chain Web3 distribution through vault marketplaces such as NUVA. Nuva Labs is the leading developer and integration partner on Provenance Blockchain, a leading public Layer 1 blockchain network with over $30 billion in real-world assets total value locked (TVL). Learn more at: NuvaLabs.com, and follow us on X and LinkedIn. * * * @anthonymoro111 x @bchan8938 X @animocaresearch x @JIQQYJONES x @AnimocaVentures x @Animocabrandskk

Eugenia Kuyda, founder of @wabi, on why chatbots are the MS-DOS era of AI, and why a new interface is necessary to make AI's full potential obvious to everyone: "It always struck me as strange that people were using products like ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude, but mostly for very simple use cases: for search, or to help them write something, help with homework." "No one was really mentioning any of these exciting capabilities that we just kept seeing the models get, and so we felt like there must be an interface problem." "There should be something simple for everyone, me included, to actually discover these amazing use cases that all these models already have." "We got obsessed with this metaphor that the current chatbots are really the Microsoft DOS era for AI interfaces. And that there will be some sort of a Windows/MacOS moment." "There is so much traction with chatbots... In order to unlock something else, you need a more exciting interface." @ekuyda

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