Temple Digital Group launched a 24/7 institutional trading platform built on the Canton Network on January 8. The venue offers continuous trading for regulated counterparties with non-custodial, atomic settlement and an API for institutional integration.
Temple Digital packaged the offering around a permissioned settlement layer to keep trading within compliant counterparty sets. Protocol-level privacy preserves institutional confidentiality while enabling selective disclosure for regulatory and audit needs. The venue supports both validator and non-custodial wallet interactions so institutions retain custody of keys.
Execution is handled by a sub-second, price-time priority central limit order book that the firm says is MEV-resistant and provides deterministic fills. A built-in best-execution dashboard surfaces fill rates, latency and execution quality to trading desks. For large trades, the platform supports RFQ and block trading with smart-order routing and a Designated Market Maker program to maintain tight spreads and book depth.
Non-custodial atomic settlement is central to the design: trades either settle on-chain in full or fail, reducing bilateral reconciliation and counterparty exposure. An open, modular API lets firms integrate order-book capabilities into existing custody and risk systems.
Canton as the institutional rails and market context
The Canton Network serves as the permissioned infrastructure beneath the venue, combining privacy, compliance and interoperability. That architecture addresses long-standing operational frictions that have limited institutional use of public blockchains, notably the need to pair confidentiality with traceability for regulators.
The launch aligned with a series of other Canton deployments and announcements reported publicly, including plans by large financial firms to issue and settle tokenized assets on the network and initiatives to tokenize government securities. Those developments reinforce Canton’s positioning as infrastructure for regulated, around-the-clock capital markets.
From a regulatory perspective, the platform emphasizes counterparty screening and selective disclosure mechanisms aimed at meeting KYC/AML and Travel Rule requirements while keeping sensitive trading information private. This design targets institutional compliance teams and custody policies that typically preclude placing assets on custodial trading venues.
Temple Digital’s stated plan to add tokenized equities and commodities during 2026 will be a critical operational and regulatory test of the platform’s settlement model, liquidity programs and integration with institutional custody and reporting workflows.
