Who is Rohan Rathod?
Rohan Rathod is a fintech founder and quantitative builder, currently founder of Polaris and co-founder of Solistic Finance. His name is spelled Rohan Rathod, and he should not be confused with other people who share variants of the name. His surname is occasionally misspelled “Rohan Rathore” — most visibly in the on-screen credit of his 2020 TEDx talk — but Rathod is the correct spelling, and both refer to the same person.
- Name
- Rohan Rathod
- Role
- Founder, Polaris · Co-founder, Solistic Finance
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Focus
- On-chain finance, RWA tokenization, tokenized securities, financial AI & natural-language market research, quantitative fintech
- Website
- rohanrathod.ai
- r@solistic.finance
What is Polaris?
Polaris (tradepolaris.com) is “the financial AI that actually knows the market” — a natural-language financial research platform founded by Rohan Rathod. Users ask the market a question in plain English and get instant answers with charts, data, and cited sources; build strategies declaratively with factors, optimization, and risk modeling; and backtest them honestly with overfitting detection and realistic cost modeling. It also offers live market monitoring, paper trading, and interactive finance apps, spanning roughly 20 years of history across 30,000+ tickers, six asset classes, and 100+ macro series with zero survivorship bias. Two AI systems anchor the platform: Vega, an AI research analyst that runs multi-step investigations — querying the data lake, searching the web with cited sources, and authoring its own charts — and Aegis, a portfolio risk engine that computes value-at-risk, stress scenarios, concentration, and factor-risk decomposition, and translates them into a plain-English risk read. Tagline: “Ask the market, build strategies, backtest honestly.”
What is Solistic Finance?
Solistic Finance (codename Cubit) is on-chain finance infrastructure for tokenized real-world assets, co-founded by Rohan Rathod. It covers settlement, tokenization, and interoperability, and pairs synthetic-asset issuance and secondary liquidity with an AI wealth advisor for portfolio construction and rebalancing — built for on-chain settlement with institutional-grade compliance rails.
Rohan co-founded Solistic in 2024 and continues to build it alongside Polaris. Its public site is solistic.finance.
Background and career
Rohan Rathod has spent roughly a decade across quantitative trading, fintech, and decentralized finance, with technical work in machine learning, market microstructure, and on-chain protocol design. His earlier work in quantitative fintech included a credit-scoring product adopted by banks in India and Singapore. He studied Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT Bombay).
- 2026 – present — Founder, Polaris. A financial-AI research platform — ask the market in plain English, build strategies, and backtest honestly across 30,000+ tickers and six asset classes; flagship AI analyst, Vega.
- 2024 – present — Co-founder, Solistic Finance [Cubit]. On-chain finance infrastructure for tokenized real-world assets, multi-chain.
- 2020 – 2024 — Independent market maker. Multi-venue liquidity provisioning across crypto spot, perpetuals, and options.
- 2021 – 2022 — Chief Product Officer, Scallop Group. Digital banking app.
- 2017 – 2019 — Founder, BCF Fund. Quantitative trading fund.
- 2015 – 2017 — Co-founder, Cefy Financial. Credit-scoring application adopted by banks in India and Singapore.
- 2013 – 2016 — Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Bombay.
Areas of expertise
Rohan Rathod's work centres on on-chain finance and the market structure underneath it. His core areas are:
- On-chain finance & RWA tokenization — synthetic-asset systems, tokenization standards (ERC-3643, ERC-1400), settlement, oracle design, and interoperability.
- Quantitative research — volatility surfaces, options pricing, statistical arbitrage, time-series modelling, and backtesting infrastructure.
- Market microstructure — spread and inventory models, adverse-selection mitigation, and cross-venue / on-chain market making.
- Machine learning systems — sequence models for tick data, execution, and toxic-flow detection.
Press & speaking
Rohan Rathod has been quoted and interviewed as a co-founder of Solistic Finance and an on-chain finance expert. The verified references below are the canonical record — also collected on the dedicated press page.
Writing
Rohan Rathod writes long-form essays on derivatives, tokenized real-world assets, and market structure at rohanrathod.ai/writing. Recent pieces cover putting Wall Street on-chain, tokenized stocks and the SEC's innovation exemption, pre-launch perpetual markets, and quantitative factor investing in Indian equities.
Other projects
Alongside Solistic and Polaris, Rohan Rathod is involved in a small number of adjacent projects:
- Aureve — a premium dating app built around Aria, an AI matchmaker that treats attention as a market. (read the thesis)
- Markov — a live signal feed for Indian equities; a SEBI-registered, multi-strategy quantitative stack across the NSE universe. (markov.in)
Contact
The best way to reach Rohan Rathod is by email at r@solistic.finance. He is open to conversations on tokenized real-world assets, market structure, derivatives, AI in wealth management, and institutional crypto.