SBI Group, one of Japan's largest financial institutions, has led a private funding round in Temple Digital Group, the institutional trading platform built on the Canton Network. The investment deepens SBI's existing relationship with Canton, where it has participated as a founding partner and Super Validator since the network's early stages.
Temple currently holds the top position among Canton applications by network revenue. The fresh capital will support an expansion of its product suite and preparations to list regulated markets in the second half of 2026. With additional licensing in place, Temple Digital Group is positioning itself as one of the first non-custodial trading platforms to list and trade traditional market instruments on a blockchain that offers privacy, real-time settlement, and cross-application composability.
The strategic fit is straightforward. SBI Holdings serves more than 50 million customers and has spent years building institutional digital asset infrastructure. The group is also leading a consortium to launch regulated, round-the-clock tokenized equity trading in Japan and internationally. Backing Temple extends that strategy into the trading infrastructure layer of an ecosystem SBI already helped build.
Canton's institutional footprint provides the backdrop. The network now supports more than $6 trillion in on-chain assets across more than 600 institutions, with participants including Goldman Sachs, BNP Paribas, Broadridge, Franklin Templeton, and Euroclear. DTCC is separately partnering with Digital Asset to tokenize DTC-custodied US Treasury securities on Canton, with broader rollout expected later this year. As that pipeline moves from pilot to production, the demand for capable trading infrastructure on the network grows with it.
Temple's Lightspeed upgrade, launched recently, delivers sub-second matching and support for 100,000 orders per second, making it the highest-throughput trading infrastructure currently operating on Canton.
"There is a great deal of synergy between SBI and Temple — we both see the immense potential of Canton and how it will affect financial market infrastructure in the coming years," said Evan Varsamis, CEO and Co-Founder of Temple Digital Group.
Dan Simerman, CSO and Co-Founder of Temple Digital Group, described the round as bringing in a partner aligned on a longer-term vision. "With SBI joining us, Temple brings on a long-term partner committed to the same vision for emerging financial market infrastructure," he said.
Juan Manuel Gomez, General Manager of SBI Holdings, said the investment reflects confidence in where the ecosystem is headed. "Temple stands out as the premier trading platform on Canton. Its sub-second matching and privacy-first architecture deliver exactly the kind of institutional-grade infrastructure the ecosystem needs," he said. "We believe Temple is well positioned to become essential market infrastructure as tokenized assets scale across global capital markets."
No financial terms were disclosed.
