TempleDAO wallet

What is TempleDAO (TEMPLE)?

TEMPLE is the token of TempleDAO, a treasury-backed DeFi protocol on Ethereum. Every TEMPLE stands against assets held in the protocol treasury, mostly stablecoins, and the protocol publishes a Treasury Price Index (TPI): a per-token figure showing how much stablecoin backing sits behind each TEMPLE. An automated market operations module trades around that index in the protocol's own liquidity pool, so the token is built to track its backing rather than float on its own.

Beyond the backing, TEMPLE has two working roles. It is the governance token of the DAO, and it can be locked as collateral in the Temple Line of Credit to borrow DAI against it, with the borrowing limit derived from the TPI. Both roles are designed for holders who keep the token for a long time rather than move it often.

What a holder deals with

TEMPLE is a plain ERC-20 on Ethereum mainnet: no token account to open, no rebase. Every transfer and every governance or collateral interaction is paid in ETH, so a little ETH belongs next to it. The first version of the protocol used a staking contract that issued OGTEMPLE as a receipt and an exit queue for leaving it; if you took part back then, a balance labeled OGTEMPLE is that older staked position and is a separate token from TEMPLE. Supported networks in Tangem (1): Ethereum.

A token like this spends most of its life untouched, which puts the weight on the key rather than on the interface. In Tangem the private key is generated inside the card's secure element and never exported; the backup is a second identical card, not a phrase written on paper that has to survive as long as the position does. For an asset you intend to hold through years of governance and treasury changes, a key that cannot be copied off the card is the property that matters most.