Over the past few years, something important has been happening.
As onchain systems matured, Cubist has quietly become core infrastructure for teams operating at the highest stakes. Today, Cubist secures and orchestrates multi-billion-dollar asset flows across regulated finance, DeFi, and consumer platforms. What began as cutting-edge innovation has increasingly become mission-critical plumbing.
Today, we’re excited to share the next step in that journey.
Cubist has appointed Rohan Chauhan, CFA as President, where he will lead our global strategy and institutional expansion. Rohan joins Cubist after senior roles at Gemini, Hudson River Trading, and GIC (Singapore’s Sovereign Wealth Fund), bringing deep experience across traditional capital markets and digital asset infrastructure.
From regulatory clarity to production deployments
As regulatory clarity accelerates in 2026, banks and enterprises are moving tokenized deposits, stablecoins, and onchain financial workflows into production. That shift brings a new set of requirements: infrastructure that can meet the speed of internet-native markets while upholding the controls, accountability, and compliance standards of global finance.
This moment marks a transition for Cubist from an industry-leading innovator to a long-term institutional partner.
Rohan’s arrival reflects that inflection point. His role is to help translate Cubist’s sustained execution into durable market leadership by bridging the gap between institutional requirements and modern onchain systems.
Infrastructure that meets institutional requirements
At Cubist, we believe compliance shouldn’t slow systems down; it should be encoded into them. Our work focuses on turning manual security and compliance processes into technology-enforced guarantees, so institutions can operate onchain with confidence.
"We are thrilled to welcome Rohan to Cubist. This is a pivotal moment for the industry. The complexity of onchain financial operations is at an all-time high and still growing. Those workloads demand infrastructure that is far more scalable and programmable than ever before. Cubist's technology is uniquely positioned to meet those demands. And now, Rohan will add a new dimension: broad and deep experience across digital assets and traditional finance. With his expertise supercharging our mission, Cubist will lead the way in key management, confidential compute, and cross-chain security, giving institutions the highest confidence in their adoption of digital assets." - Riad Wahby, CEO of Cubist
With Rohan joining the team, we’re doubling down on that mission.
A career at the intersection of traditional finance and digital assets
Rohan brings more than 15 years of experience across trading, capital markets and product innovation.
Most recently at Gemini, he served as Director of Strategy, leading the company’s IPO process and major strategic partnerships, including Gemini’s collaboration with Ripple. He also served as CEO of Gemini Titan, where he helped secure regulatory licensing and launch the firm’s prediction markets business.
Before Gemini, Rohan drove business development at Hudson River Trading, one of the world’s most sophisticated high-frequency trading firms. Earlier in his career, he spent over a decade trading across GIC, Kepos Capital, and Credit Suisse, building deep intuition around systems design, risk management, and regulatory constraints.
“Institutions are ready to move trillions onchain, but the transition depends on infrastructure that matches the operational rigor of traditional finance. Cubist’s secure operating system is the essential bridge between the speed of the internet and the compliance of global capital markets. I’m excited to scale our business and bring our industry-leading capabilities to the world’s most sophisticated institutions and traders.” - Rohan Chauhan, President of Cubist
Looking ahead
This announcement follows the launch of Cubist Confidential Cloud Functions (C2F), the first Web3 confidential compute platform live on mainnet networks. Today, C2F enables teams like Squid to build novel products using private smart contracts.
As onchain infrastructure intersects with traditional financial infrastructure, Cubist is focused on what comes next: building systems institutions can rely on every day, under real constraints, at real scale.
We’re thrilled to welcome Rohan to the team, and excited for the road ahead.
Read the press release.
