The stock market closes at 4 PM Eastern. Your crypto wallet does not. Franklin Templeton just decided to side with the wallet.

The investment giant, which manages roughly $1.68 trillion in assets, has rolled out tokenized ETFs that can be traded 24 hours a day, seven days a week, directly within crypto wallets. It’s the kind of move that sounds like a fintech startup pitch deck — except this time it’s coming from a firm that’s been around since 1947.

What Franklin Templeton actually built

Here’s the thing. Traditional ETFs are tethered to market hours. You want to buy shares of an S&P 500 fund at 2 AM on a Saturday because you just read something alarming? Tough luck, wait until Monday morning.

Franklin…