SBI Holdings Leads Investment in Temple Digital Group | LeapRate | Online Trading Industry News, Broker Intelligence & Fintech Analysis

Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings has announced it has led an investment round in Temple Digital Group, a New York-based provider of institutional trading infrastructure built on the Canton Network blockchain, marking a significant step in the firm’s digital asset expansion strategy.

Temple Digital Group operates an electronic exchange that generates the highest revenue among decentralised exchanges on the Canton Network — a blockchain platform purpose-built for institutional participants in global capital markets. The platform’s recently launched “Lightspeed” system supports sub-second order matching and processes up to 100,000 orders per second, delivering the performance benchmarks required by institutional-scale trading operations.

Temple is targeting the second half of 2026 to accommodate regulated markets following the acquisition of securities trading licences. The platform aims to enable the listing and trading of traditional market products, incorporating transaction privacy, instant settlement, and financial application interoperability — all within a self-custody framework that eliminates third-party asset deposit risk.

The Canton Network currently counts over 600 participating institutions, including Goldman Sachs, BNP Paribas, Franklin Templeton, Broadridge, and Euroclear, with assets under management on the network exceeding $6 trillion. The network’s footprint is expected to grow further as DTCC moves to adopt it for the digital securitisation of US Treasuries later this year.

SBI Holdings, already a founding partner and super validator on the Canton Network, said the investment aligns with its broader push into real-world asset (RWA) tokenisation and round-the-clock, regulatory-compliant digital asset trading across Japan and international markets.