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IYKYK (If You Know, You Know): Crypto Concepts Decoded in Under Two Minutes
The crypto space moves fast. These short videos cut through the noise and break down the concepts shaping the future of finance—no jargon, no fluff, just clear explanations in under two minutes.
Digital Wallets Explained In Under Two Minutes | IYKYK
Blockchain Layer 1s and Layers 2s Explained In Under Two Minutes | IYKYK
Crypto Staking Explained In Under Two Minutes | IYKYK
Public vs Private Keys Explained In Under Two Minutes | IYKYK
Discovering Digital Assets Video Series
This series consists of nine concise videos, addressing various topics related to digital assets. Scroll through the carousel to select a video by topic, or watch the videos in order to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the digital asset landscape.
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Mythbusting: Four Things Investors Often Get Wrong About Crypto
The Franklin Templeton Digital Asset team believes cryptocurrencies are much more than the misconceptions that often surround them and as the asset class matures, investors need to move beyond myths and evaluate cryptocurrencies with a nuanced, informed perspective.
Bitcoin as an Investable Asset
Learn more about the opportunity offered by the introduction of spot bitcoin ETFs. This paper will explore the investment thesis that we see supporting an allocation to bitcoin as well as model the asset’s performance quantitatively to help investors understand how including bitcoin in a portfolio may affect their investments.
Understanding the Value of the Ethereum Network
Ethereum’s extensive developer community and its leading role in sectors like decentralized finance, non-fungible tokens and gaming highlight its significant impact on the decentralized digital economy and its position at the forefront of Web3 innovation.
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WHAT ARE THE RISKS?
All investments involve risks, including possible loss of principal.
Blockchain and cryptocurrency investments are subject to various risks, including inability to develop digital asset applications or to capitalize on those applications, theft, loss, or destruction of cryptographic keys, the possibility that digital asset technologies may never be fully implemented, cybersecurity risk, conflicting intellectual property claims, and inconsistent and changing regulations. Speculative trading in bitcoins and other forms of cryptocurrencies, many of which have exhibited extreme price volatility, carries significant risk; an investor can lose the entire amount of their investment. Blockchain technology is a new and relatively untested technology and may never be implemented to a scale that provides identifiable benefits. If a cryptocurrency is deemed a security, it may be deemed to violate federal securities laws. There may be a limited or no secondary market for cryptocurrencies.
Digital assets are subject to risks relating to immature and rapidly developing technology, security vulnerabilities of this technology, (such as theft, loss, or destruction of cryptographic keys), conflicting intellectual property claims, credit risk of digital asset exchanges, regulatory uncertainty, high volatility in their value/price, unclear acceptance by users and global marketplaces, and manipulation or fraud. Portfolio managers, service providers to the portfolios and other market participants increasingly depend on complex information technology and communications systems to conduct business functions. These systems are subject to a number of different threats or risks that could adversely affect the portfolio and their investors, despite the efforts of the portfolio managers and service providers to adopt technologies, processes and practices intended to mitigate these risks and protect the security of their computer systems, software, networks and other technology assets, as well as the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information belonging to the portfolios and their investors.
Any companies and/or case studies referenced herein are used solely for illustrative purposes; any investment may or may not be currently held by any portfolio advised by Franklin Templeton. The information provided is not a recommendation or individual investment advice for any particular security, strategy, or investment product and is not an indication of the trading intent of any Franklin Templeton managed portfolio.