Franklin Templeton invests in Integral to build tokenization accounting infrastructure

Integral Treasury, a startup solving digital asset accounting and financial operations for businesses, today announced its investment from and collaboration with Franklin Templeton. The goal for the investment and collaboration is to advance digital asset accounting tooling for new technologies, including tokenization.

Now that spot bitcoin ETFs are here, institutions are thinking about the next wave of crypto innovation. Tokenization is one of many big opportunities, but as with all new crypto technologies, compliance, accounting, and crypto finops can really slow down innovation.

At Integral, we built a core ledgering solution that makes it easy for finance and accounting teams to bring new products to market, without accounting and compliance headaches. What’s special about Integral is that our infrastructure allows us to move as fast as crypto. We’ve solved NFTs for public companies and startups, DeFi and token vesting contracts for investment firms, and we’re going to extend our coverage to support tokenized assets for institutions and startups.

Franklin Templeton Digital Assets is a dedicated group of investment professionals engaged in intensive research and technical development within the digital asset ecosystem, developing investment offerings, technology platforms and strategy differentiation to help clients achieve their investment goals in this new asset class, all while supporting and investing in digital asset networks.

Franklin Templeton has an incredible digital assets team. They don’t just understand the future of finance: they’re building it. We are excited to work with Franklin Templeton to develop accounting and financial operations software that institutions with digital assets can rely on and innovate with.

We expect this partnership to benefit the entire Integral community. The investment will fund world-class support for existing and new crypto-native primitives. The way we see it, tokenization, staking, DeFi, and NFTs are only the beginning. There will be many more innovations in the coming decade, and as a finance and accounting partner, we need to stay ahead of the curve. Partnerships like this one are a great way to build the best product for our community, as well as bring expensive R&D projects funded by the big guys to the rest of the market (startups) that otherwise couldn't afford it.

Why use Integral?

Integral is a multi-product platform, which can deliver rich data aggregation with maximum flexibility and scalability. If you’re a Hedge/Venture Fund, Market Maker, or Enterprise, you need to simplify the complex workflows and save time in your back office. With Integral, you can do that and more:

Get a real-time and historical view of all digital assets, no matter where they're held

• Aggregate every digital asset, including tokens, NFTs, vesting contracts, and more.

• Easily view positions across all your accounts and make data-driven decisions.

Automate web3 bookkeeping at scale

• Automate workflows like bookkeeping, spam filtering, reporting, and much more by using easy automation configuration.

• Synchronize data easily and accurately with out-of-the-box integrations to existing accounting systems, to wing back hours spent on manual efforts.

Manage team accounts at scale

• Easily track what departments hold which digital assets

• Minimize back and forth between wallet owners

• Ditch spreadsheets

Streamline crypto bill payments

• Automatic matching of on-chain transactions

• Easy approval process

• Pay directly from your Coinbase Prime account

Get accurate answers, faster

• Make your web3 data easy to understand for your team, controller, or fund administrator.

• Get the answers you need when you need them. Provide auditors with verifiable data.

• Reduce the need for spreadsheets and manual data input.

About Integral

Integral was founded in 2022 to support businesses working with digital assets. The company has paired elite technology culture and customer-centricity, positioning it to build powerful, scalable accounting and finops solutions for businesses working with digital assets. In less than a year, Integral has accounted for $200B in crypto transactions, and delivered solutions to web3 pioneers such as dYdX, Uniswap Foundation, Zora, and partnered with companies such as Coinbase and Franklin Templeton. Integral serves over 150 businesses including institutions, Fortune 100 companies, and web3-native companies.