Emre Yumlu 
YZi Labs has announced a strategic investment in Temple Digital Group, the creator of the first native trading platform on the Canton Network, as part of its mission to advance regulation-aligned infrastructure for institutional digital asset markets. This move follows YZi Labs’ July 2025 backing of the Canton Network and highlights the firm’s ongoing commitment to promoting institutional adoption of digital assets through transparent, interoperable, and compliant blockchain ecosystems.
Bridging Traditional Finance and DeFi
Temple Digital Group aims to bridge traditional finance (TradFi) with decentralized finance (DeFi) by building a privacy-focused trading stack on Canton’s synchronized ledger. The platform unifies tokenized assets, liquidity, and regulatory compliance into a single layer, enabling institutions to interact efficiently in digital markets. YZi Labs’ investment reflects the growing need for shared infrastructure that meets regulatory requirements while maintaining market connectivity and liquidity.
Temple Platform: A New Standard in Financial Infrastructure
Temple, the flagship offering from Temple Digital Group, combines the best features of conventional electronic trading systems with DeFi advantages. It provides automated order routing, all-to-all liquidity models, post-trade reporting, flexible permissioning, and counterparty privacy. These functionalities are integrated with Canton Network’s real-time, non-custodial settlement capabilities, offering institutions a secure and compliant trading environment.
With the new funding, Temple plans to expand its engineering and compliance teams and develop new products such as Asset Issuance & Management tools, perpetual futures, and cross-network trade routing. The project aims to deliver a foundational infrastructure layer for regulated blockchain markets, similar to how NASDAQ and DTCC provide reliability and efficiency in traditional finance.
Experienced Founding Team and Strategic Vision
Temple’s CEO Evan Varsamis brings prior experience as an investor and founder in projects like Rainbow, Discord, and Phantom, while co-founder Dan Simerman has led technical strategy and product development at IOTA Foundation and Wells Fargo. Alex Odagiu, Investment Partner at YZi Labs, emphasized that Temple’s disciplined approach directly addresses the gap between regulation-compliant infrastructure and active institutional use, reinforcing the ecosystem’s potential for large-scale adoption.
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