Introducing Lightspeed
Lightspeed is a complete reconceptualization of private market infrastructure on Canton. With Lightspeed, Temple offers a wide range of usability, speed and performance improvements to scale institutional markets on distributed networks.
Temple’s Lightspeed Can Process Over 100,000 Orders Per Second on Canton
After 6 months of extensive R&D, Temple is able to support sub-10ms matching and faster order processing while maintaining full composability with assets and applications on Canton.
Lightspeed's architecture horizontally scales and can process over 100,000 orders per second, making Temple the fastest native trading system that leverages the global synchronizer.
A New Feature Set
Lightspeed launches today with the following features and improvements:
- Market Orders — Execute trades on Canton instantly and at the best available price.
- Real-time Orderbook — Live depth and fills updated as trades occur with sub-100ms updates.
- New SDK & API—Production-grade tooling with streaming data support for builders including Websockets.
- New Order Type – Post-Only —Orders rest on the book or are rejected — never take liquidity.
- New Deposit & Withdrawal System — A streamlined funding experience for accounts.
- Offchain Order Placement & Cancellations — Place and cancel orders without fees, instantly.
- Collar Removed —Order placement no longer restricted by price bounds.
- Open Order Limit Removed —No cap on concurrent open orders.
- Light Mode —Full platform support for light theme.
We're privileged to be able to use our extensive experience building on Canton to provide the best trading platform to the network, and look forward to onboarding more markets, assets, and clients in the coming months.
