By Mark Gough

For years, crypto has searched for its true “killer app.” 

DeFi, NFTs, decentralized gaming, payments and tokenization have all taken turns wearing the crown. 

But while some had more success than others, none have truly broken containment to reach mass adoption.

Now, Franklin Templeton believes the answer may actually come from somewhere entirely different: Artificial intelligence.

In a recent paper,¹ the asset manager argues that Agentic AI could become the “killer use case” that finally drives mass blockchain adoption. 

Coming from a firm that manages more than $1.7 trillion in assets, that’s a viewpoint investors shouldn’t ignore. 

AI Is About to Stop Asking and Start Doing

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