Temple’s Lightspeed upgrade is a big step for trading on Canton. Temple already brings a different model to on-chain markets: private, compliant, non-custodial trading built around Canton-native settlement. And the activity is already meaningful. Temple is processing over $1.5M in daily CC volume, and with v2 now supporting over 250k trades per day, the venue is starting to look like one of Canton’s key trading layers, with more pairs coming soon. With Lightspeed, that experience gets much sharper. The upgrade introduces a real-time orderbook, sub-10ms order matching, market orders, instant order placement and cancellations, a new SDK/API with WebSockets, and a cleaner deposit/withdrawal flow. In simple terms: Temple is bringing centralized-exchange speed to Canton, while keeping what makes Canton different: privacy, compliance, atomic settlement, and user control. It is not just about faster trades. Lightspeed is designed to support more users, deeper liquidity, higher throughput, and more serious trading volume without turning Canton into another transparent, MEV-heavy public market. That matters. Institutions need privacy. Active traders need speed. Builders need reliable APIs. Users need a smoother experience. Canton needs venues where real settlement activity can grow. Temple sits right at that intersection. And with volume-based leaderboard rewards launching May 1, plus CC rewards per settled transaction, Temple is turning trading activity into a direct part of Canton’s economic engine. Fast execution. Private markets. Non-custodial infrastructure. Canton-native settlement. That is what makes Temple worth paying attention to.