Our thesis is simple: privacy, compliance, and composability will support the adoption of digital asset and blockchain based financial services.
Temple is building the first native trading platform, global asset registry and issuance platform for Canton.
We believe that public infrastructure will ultimately be the home of real-time capital markets, and are excited to work with Canton's open, auditable, and privacy focused architecture to build real solutions to support the world's largest institutions.
Evan founded Temple to build the institutional rails for trading, issuance, and settlement on Canton, after spending over 5 years building and scaling fintech infrastructure.
A five-time founder with three exits, he has built proprietary non-fungible infrastructure across 12 networks and led product and engineering teams that bridge institutional capital markets with distributed ledger technology.
Dan leads Temple's strategy and institutional ecosystem development, drawing on a decade of experience productizing cryptography, tokenization, and distributed network technologies.
Early in his career, Dan designed and developed banking and regulatory platforms as a technology consultant, participating in Wells Fargo's transition to Basel III. He later joined the IOTA Foundation to support the adoption of the network's digital asset and protocol infrastructure, focused on solutions to bridge early DLT architectures with real world applications.
John leads engineering across Temple's trading and settlement systems, with more than two decades of full-stack depth spanning cloud infrastructure, SQL, JavaScript, Vue, Nuxt, and Express.
Over six years in blockchain, he has designed and deployed secure Solidity contracts, built tokenized ecosystems, implemented Partially Signed Bitcoin Transactions, and architected decentralized applications across Canton, DAML, Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Layer 2 networks.
Travis leads Temple's capital markets effort, building liquidity, counterparty relationships, and institutional flow into Temple's trading and RFQ venues.
He spent his career on the credit trading desk at Barclays and brings more than twenty years of market structure experience to the design of Temple's products.
Manfred oversees Temple's compliance, AML, and regulatory programs, ensuring every product meets the standards institutions require before they touch a trade.
He has spent more than fifteen years building compliance functions across global payments, fintech, and digital assets, from Western Union to Crypto.com, spanning the US, EU, and APAC.
Mark leads Temple's engineering teams day to day, owning delivery across the platform's web applications and blockchain integrations.
With close to a decade in full-stack and Web3 development, he pairs hands-on technical depth with the leadership to keep a fast-moving team shipping.
John drives GTM and product at Temple. He has 16 years of experience in asset management, crypto, and startups, including at BNY with $60T in assets.
He helped launch an OEMS and a volatility arbitrage hedge fund, led IPOs and TGEs, and helped raise and invest $10B across private equity, private credit, and venture capital.
