Who is Rohan Rathod?
Rohan Rathod is a fintech founder and quantitative builder, currently 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.
- Name
- Rohan Rathod
- Role
- Co-founder, Solistic Finance
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Focus
- On-chain finance, RWA tokenization, tokenized securities, quantitative fintech
- Website
- rohanrathod.ai
- r@solistic.finance
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.
Solistic is the company Rohan currently works on full time. 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 at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT Bombay).
- 2024 – present — Co-founder, Solistic Finance [Cubit]. On-chain finance infrastructure for tokenized real-world assets, multi-chain.
- 2020 – 2024 — 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.
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, Rohan Rathod is involved in a small number of adjacent projects:
- Polaris — a natural-language research and backtesting platform for systematic equity strategies: ask the market a question in plain English, then walk-forward backtest it like a quant across two decades of US equities and macro data. (tradepolaris.com)
- 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.