# YZi Labs Backs Temple Digital Group, Creator of Canton’s First Native Exchange

*Author: Jack Inabinet*
*Published: Oct 16, 2025*
*Source: https://www.bankless.com/read/news/yzi-labs-backs-temple-digital-group-creator-of-cantons-first-native-exchange*

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YZi Labs – the family office of Binance co-founder Changpeng "CZ" Zhao – has announced an unspecified investment into Temple Digital Group, the first native exchange on Canton Network.

### What’s the Scoop?
- **Temple Digital Details: **Temple is a compliant and private trading platform for tokenized capital markets that requires users to submit know-your-customer (KYC) information. Users who access Canton markets through Temple enjoy benefits like customizable counterparty permissioning and a privacy-focused trading experience.
- **Canton's Capital Convergence:** Canton creator Digital Asset [raised](https://www.canton.network/canton-network-press-releases/digital-asset-raises-135-million-to-accelerate-adoption-of-canton-network) $135M in June 2025. This round was led by DRW Venture Capital and Tradeweb Markets, and brought together a roster of financial and crypto heavyweights, from Goldman Sachs and Citadel Securities to Circle and Polychain.
- **Scaling Real-World Assets:** Canton claims to be the only public, permissionless blockchain capable of offering configurable privacy and institutional-grade compliance. Canton [purports](https://www.canton.network/canton-network-press-releases/canton-network-and-chainlink-enter-into-strategic-partnership-to-accelerate-institutional-blockchain-adoption-) to support over $6T in onchain real-world assets and processes $280B in daily transactions through a network of 500 validators and over 30 super validators. 
- **Digital Assets History: **Digital Asset was founded in 2014 and was previously [tapped](https://www.thetradenews.com/goldman-sachs-to-use-digital-assets-technology-to-build-open-platform-for-tokenised-assets/) by Goldman Sachs in 2021 to build an open platform for tokenized assets and [helped](https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/31/japan-sbi-digital-asset-daml/) Japanese financial conglomerate SBI Holdings develop a digital yen in 2022.

> [https://t.co/dUioYxl4Mi](https://t.co/dUioYxl4Mi)— YZi Labs (@yzilabs) [October 16, 2025](https://twitter.com/yzilabs/status/1978810222161637501?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)