Temple is a privacy-focused, non-custodial institutional trading infrastructure and electronic exchange built on Canton Network, co-founded by Evan Varsamis and Dan Simerman. Temple's Twitter Score is 24 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #41,177 (top 10%) among 483,652 tracked accounts.
Temple was co-founded by Evan Varsamis, serving as Co-Founder and CEO, and Dan Simerman, serving as Co-Founder and CSO. The platform went live for trading on January 8, 2026, operating as a Canton-native venue for digital-asset trading. Its Lightspeed architecture is engineered for sub-10ms matching and supports more than 100,000 orders per second, targeting institutional-grade performance requirements.
Temple raised a $5M seed round in December 2025, led by Paper Ventures, with additional backing from YZi Labs, CMT Digital, Sfermion, and SBI Group. Temple is registered as a Money Services Business with FinCEN under registration number 31000324258234. The platform distributes rewards denominated in Canton Coin ($CC) rather than operating a native token, and holds membership with the Canton Foundation.
Temple has published 238 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 57 accounts a total of 95 times.
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The accounts that follow Temple include 109 founders, 33 angel investors, 64 influencers and 7 VCs, among them Cointelegraph, CoinMarketCap, Seraphim, Tim Copeland, Andrew Steinwold and YZi Labs.