Frequently Asked Questions

Who is Chintai?

During the past six years ChintaiNetwork has obtained multiple financial licenses to issue Real World Assets (RWA) in primary markets and subsequently trade RWA in secondary markets, building a comprehensive RWA blockchain platform purpose-built to achieve two primary goals:

Modernize traditional financial markets (TradFi) for asset managers, banks and other institutions, bringing RWA to market quickly, compliantly and more economically than any other approach
Democratize and ultimately decentralize (DeFi) RWA investor access to traditionally private, illiquid investments, bringing all assets to investor fingertips, trading every asset class from securities to crypto, investing in pre-IPO securities, staking rewards, AMM liquidity yield, air drops, crypto bridges to multiple blockchain communities, and fiat ramps to multiple banking institutions

At its core, Chintai’s platform is a one-stop licensed, regulated, compliant, permissioned L1 blockchain for RWA tokenization, distribution and trading. Any asset class can be tokenized and subsequently traded, including equities, bonds, real-estate and carbon credits, just to name a few (think: Coinbase). Institutional partners can optionally use their own branded websites for dynamic customer on-boarding, issuance and trading using Chintai’s extensive white label services (think: Shopify).

In the TradFi space, Chintai has established a regulated financial institution for efficient security token issuance and trading by any issuer, any asset class, with distribution across multiple jurisdictions, including full lifecycle white label service and order book trading for institutional, expert and accredited investors.

In the DeFi space, Chintai has established a next-generation Initial Coin Offering (ICO v2) tokenization and trading platform for any non-security asset class, by any issuer, with distribution across multiple jurisdictions and EVM-compatible blockchain communities, including full lifecycle white label service and AMM trading for institutional, expert, accredited and retail investors (currently excludes U.S. retail investors).

What Makes Chintai Unique?

Successful RWA platforms must be properly licensed and maintain ongoing regulatory compliance throughout the technology stack and business operation. Chintai holds multiple licenses to handle RWA in three jurisdictions. Legally acting as its own financial institution, Chintai obtained two licenses from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) in 2022 for issuance (CMS) and trading (RMO) of tokenized assets — including securities. A MAS custodial extension to the existing CMS license is pending. MAS audits Chintai operations twice each year. United States broker-dealer and ATS licensure is now in place through partnerships with Baird Augustine and Allo.xyz. An existing license to operate in British Virgin Islands (BVI) is being replaced by a newly-established VASP license. Global Economy scored Singapore as the highest-quality regulator in 2022. Singapore has consistently remained a top-5 financial services hub. Chintai legally services the entire RWA marketplace, projected to be a US$28 trillion market by 2030 (Ernst & Young-Parthenon).

Driven by years of institutional client requirements, Chintai designed a dual Coinbase + Shopify regulated RWA business model that makes Chintai itself the primary licensed financial institution, employing vertical integration to streamline business processes and significantly reduce issuance cost by up to 70%, increasing competitive advantage by bringing RWA to market faster than any other platform.

Critical infrastructure is provided, including robust KYC/AML with automated compliance technology, end-to-end white labeling for client-branded customer onboarding, dynamic RWA tokenization, issuance and trading, high-performance secondary trading with innovative Automated Market Makers (AMM). Core monitoring infrastructure ensures all transactions remain compliant using a sophisticated, client-customizable rules engine. Compliance monitoring can be leveraged by external exchanges for compliant transactions, avoiding costly regulator approval and lengthy internal compliance engine development.

Chintai checks all the boxes!

What is CHEX?

CHintai EXchange token (CHEX) is Chintai's blockchain utility token that powers all transactions. Everything runs on-chain and CHEX is a required resource to perform all activities including RWA issuance, trading and account maintenance. CHEX holders can stake for real yield from fees collected by Chintai during RWA issuance, ongoing trading and account maintenance. CHEX tokenomics, as described in Chintai's white paper, are unsurpassed.

Equally critical, CHEX is the gateway token for liquidity between decentralized (DeFi) and traditional financial (TradFi) systems. CHEX is a multi-chain token that attracts liquidity and investors from several blockchain communities including ETH, SOL, Base, BSC and EOS, exposing investors to a secondary market of RWA tokens to trade in their portfolios.

Market Cap: $310M as of 13-Jan-2025
All-Time High: $0.80 on 17-Dec-2024
Fair Launch: Dutch auction held from 8-Apr-2019 to 4-Dec-2019
Max Supply: 998.8 million fully distributed, no locks and no vested tokens
CHEX buybacks: Chintai periodically purchases CHEX from public markets to increase its treasury for anticipated network growth; first $0.5 million buyback took place on 16-May-2024
Deflationary: 5% of fees earned used for token buyback and burn
Real Network Yield: 10% of fees earned by Chintai from issuance, trading and account maintenance go towards real yield for CHEX stakers
Airdrops: Optional issuer airdropped utility, governance or other tokens to stakers
Market Making: Acheron Trading was chosen on 20-June-2024 as the primary market maker for CHEX across multiple exchanges and to help obtain tier-1 exchange listings

What About Jurisdictional Licensing?

Capital Markets Services (23 August, 2022) MAS license to issue RWA in all asset classes, including securities, granted by Monetary Authority of Singapore

Recognized Capital Market Operator (25 October, 2022) MAS license to trade regulated RWA, including securities, granted by Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)

A custodial extension to the existing CMS license is pending

MAS audits all Chintai operations twice each year

United States broker-dealer ATS licensure is in place through partnerships with Baird Augustine and Allo.xyz

An existing license to operate in British Virgin Islands (BVI) is being replaced by a newly-established VASP license

Chintai is seeking additional licenses to operate in other jurisdictions including the United States, Hong Kong, Middle East and UK

Who's In The RWA Pipeline?

Last Updated: 21-December-2024

David Packham, Chintai CEO, noted dozens of institutional clients have joined Chintai’s pipeline for RWA issuance and trading, a broad selection of assets including renewable energy, real estate, carbon credits, funds, bonds, pre-IPO securities and collectibles, with the pace of new agreements accelerating

In 2024, Chintai signed agreements to issue $643.6 million, and issued $20.7 million on-chain. During Q1, 2025, Chintai estimates $2 billion total value issued, and between $5 to $10 billion in 2025. The latest AMA event confirmed 70% of Chintai’s rapidly growing client pipeline remains under NDAs with 30% publicly confirmed:

Allo.xyz (White-labeled)
Athena Art Finance (Fine Art, White-labeled)
Baird Augustine (Stocks/Funds, White-labeled)
Bricklet (Real-Estate)
CAC-H2 Pte Ltd (Sustainable Hydrogen)
Chimera Wealth (Securities/funds)
DNA Fund (Securities/Funds, White-labeled Deal Desk)
DNZ Venture Global (Real-Estate, Carbon Credits, White-labeled)
DPI Capital (Securities/Funds)
Greenium/X (Carbon Credits, White-labeled)
Kabinburi Industrial Zone (Net-Zero Industrial Zone)
Kin Capital Group (Real Estate)
Net Zero-X (Renewable Energy White-labeled)
PowerDime (Renewable Energy, White-labeled)
Premier Art Acquisitions (Fine Art)
Premier Art Holdings (Fine Art, White-labeled)
R3 Sustainability (Sustainables)
Raffles Family Office (Securities/Funds)
RealNOI (Real-Estate)
Revo Digital Family Office (Securities/Funds)
SDAX (Securities/Funds, White-labeled)
Speyside Capital (Collectable Whiskey)

There are dozens of undisclosed clients with signed NDAs in place, including:

Unnamed $90B stealth entity in UAE issuing a pilot oil bond valued between $150M and $350M, with recurring issuances
Unnamed fund management company using private Automated Market Makers (AMM) in Chintai’s regulated exchange for wealth fund liquidity provision, including on-chain fund record keeping

Chintai is targeting 50 signed clients ahead of its expected Series A opening in Q1, 2025, projecting between $5 and $10 billion in total assets issued on-chain in 2025. With a large and growing client pipeline, Chintai anticipates being the first RWA platform managing multiple asset classes with low-to-mid-billions entirely on-chain

How Much Institutional Collaboration?

Over the past six years Chintai has partnered and heavily collaborated with many financial organizations of all sizes, including some of the world’s largest institutions, to drive key features required in an optimal Web3 tokenization and trading platform

Partnerships are publicly confirmed agreements to work together between Chintai and another company. Chintai has disclosed RWA white labeling partnerships with Baird Augustine and Allo.xyz to leverage Broker-Dealer ATS licensure for tokenizing and trading RWA in the United States. Chintai also recently mentioned its partnerships with Ernst & Young, DBS and Passion Venture Capital. Chintai CEO, David Packham, also announced a partnership with Coinbase to distribute RWA issued by Chintai to Coinbase accredited and institutional customers on Base, also confirmed a joint marketing partnership with Ernst & Young for ongoing joint VIP sessions. Here are all publicly disclosed Chintai partnerships, several appearing for the first time in a recent presentation by Chintai Managing Director Josh Gordon:

Collaborate means public confirmation that discussions have been heldChintai’s Chief Growth Officer confirmed early stage RWA collaboration with J.P. Morgan. David Packham confirmed RWA collaboration with Blackrock, Vanguard, SS&C and Northern Trust during a recent Benzinga interview, as discussed beginning at time point 1:23:07. David Packham also discussed Blackrock collaboration during the Benzinga interview at time point 1:08:50. Chintai has also collaborated with Goldman Sachs, Standard Chartered, Interactive Brokers, GAM Investments, Hywin Financial Holding Group and The Ascent Group. There has been other collaboration with several sovereign funds, exchanges, private banks and asset managers, including LGT Private Banking, UBP — Union Bancaire Privée, Azimut Group, Temasek and Northern Trust, plus a recent event with Schroders, HSBC and PhillipCapital

Chintai also collaborates with public blockchains to expand its RWA distribution network, increase CHEX liquidity, attract retail investors and provide external compliance services. There are ongoing discussions with Solana Foundation, as David Packham recently stated:

We have several clients that are each looking to do billion dollar plus issuance within the next year . . . Our goal has always been to make RWA available on public chains . . . The problem with making RWA’s available on a public chain however is finding ways to enforce compliance controls, but today I can share that we may have finally found our solution. Last week our team had a very promising call with representatives from the Solana Foundation . . . we discussed ways we can collaborate and bring RWA’s onto Solana by taking advantage of Solana’s new token extensions . . . with the goal of making Solana a key global hub for RWA.

Has RWA Been Issued?

Private investments firm DNA Fund launched its white labeled DNA Deal Desk on December 10th, 2024, issuing ten tokenized Web3 security assets for open trading, including equities and Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) valued just over $10 million.

On 28-July-2024, Net Zero-X announced their first security token issuance, WDER, a $6.5 million raise with each token representing stake in a state-of-the-art waste management and energy recovery facility in the United Kingdom; uses Chintai's comprehensive white labeled, MAS-regulated RWA issuance and trading blockchain, powered by CHEX.

The Biochar carbon credit from GXLabs became the first issuance from Chintai’s RWA pipeline on 26-Mar-2024, issuing 70,000 CHAR tokens priced at $55 per token, $3.85 million market cap, with each BioChar token ensuring sequestration of 1 metric ton in greenhouse gas. The issuance was 86% filled within days of issuance by Swiss Re Group and fully sold less than two weeks after issuance.

Additional clients already have or are expected to launch soon, including RealNOI issuing $124 million in tokenized real estate cash flow, DNZ Venture Global piloting fractional real estate securities and carbon credit tokens, and Kin Capital Group announced plans to issue real estate debt funds totaling $100 million, holding real estate trust deed positions, offering 14% to 15% target yield for institutional, expert and accredited investors.

Where Do I Purchase CHEX?

CHEX is traded on these centralized exchanges:

Bitfinex (CHEX/USD)
MEXC (CHEX/USDT)

Gate.io (CHEX/USDT)

CHEX is traded on Ethereum:

Contract: 0x9Ce84F6A69986a83d92C324df10bC8E64771030f

Uniswap (CHEX/ETH)
CoWSwap (CHEX/WETH)
SushiSwap (CHEX/WETH)

CHEX is traded on Base:

Contract: 0xc43f3ae305a92043bd9b62ebd2fe14f7547ee485

Aerodrome (CHEX/USDC)

CHEX is traded on Solana:
Contract: 6dKCoWjpj5MFU5gWDEFdpUUeBasBLK3wLEwhUzQPAa1e

Raydium (CHEX/SOL)
Market ID: D8JjVpFdXjFvHmsX7LyFy8iHXEqzhbQo576Rt8rZkyiq
Jupiter (CHEX/SOL)
Orca (CHEX/SOL)
Phantom and Solflare are the recommended Ledger compatible Solana wallets

CHEX is traded on Binance:

Pancakeswap V3 (CHEX/WBNB)

CHEX is traded on EOS:

Newdex (CHEX/EOS)
Defibox (CHEX/EOS)

How Do I Bridge CHEX?

Although CHEX is a multi-chain gateway token, emphasis is placed on the CHEX ERC20 token to access deep Ethereum liquidity

CHEX bridged to/from Ethereum and EOS Network on 29-Feb-2024

CHEX bridged to/from Solana on 3-March-2024 to establish listings on Raydium, Orca and Jupiter, with automated bridge support added on 13-March-2024

CHEX bridged to/from Binance Smart Chain on 14-May-2024

CHEX bridged to/from Base on 11-June-2024

CHEX bridge support for deposits and staking in the Chintai Nexus blockchain was released on 30-June-2024; support for withdrawing CHEX from Chintai Nexus is targeted for mid-February, 2025

Does Chintai Have Their Own Blockchain?

Yes. Chintai operates its own permissioned L1 blockchain customized for regulated RWA tokenization, distribution, trading and custody in multiple jurisdictions. To operate compliantly with regulator approval, the chain is not presently decentralized. Chintai itself is the sole validator. In the future whenever regulators approve, Chintai's blockchain will decentralize with additional validators. Nobody can currently issue and trade security tokens legally on any public, decentralized blockchain. Chintai, like many larger financial institutions (J.P. Morgan's Onyx, for example), operates a private/permissioned blockchain to maintain regulatory compliance when issuing and trading securities. Like any other licensed financial institution, investor blockchain accounts must undergo KYC identity verification before investing in securities, with all transactions dynamically monitored for AML/CFT activity.