378: No KYC, No Minimum: Get SpaceX Exposure With Just a Solana Wallet with Guest Speaker Chan Ahn from Tessera Lab

About this episode

Sam Kamani interviews Chan Ahn about Tessera Labs and their innovative approach to private equity investing through tokenization on Solana.

sat down with Chan, founder of Tessera Labs, to explore how they are tearing down the walls around private equity investing. Chan spent over a decade at Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, and Credit Suisse before doing a PhD in computational finance at Imperial College London. He saw first hand that the best returns in private markets were locked behind accreditation requirements, massive minimum tickets, and years of illiquidity. Tessera is his answer to that. We talk about how they tokenized SpaceX participation rights on Solana, why they chose Chainlink for proof of reserve, how $75 million in trading volume happened in just a few months, and what their next product T-Kalshi means for everyday investors who want exposure to one of the hottest prediction market companies in the US right now. We also get into the legal architecture behind the Cayman SPC structure, why no KYC is intentional and not an oversight, the challenges of building in a regulatory gray zone, and what Chan would tell any founder building in the RWA space today. Nothing mentioned in this podcast is investment advice and please do your own research. It would mean a lot if you can leave a review of this podcast on…

People in this episode

Host: Sam Kamani

Guest: Chan Ahn

Topics covered

• private equity investing
• tokenization
• regulatory challenges
• prediction markets
• financial technology

Keywords

• private equity
• tokenization
• Solana
• Chainlink
• Tessera Labs
• SpaceX
• KYC
• regulatory gray zone
• prediction markets

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Tessera Labs, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Credit Suisse, Chainlink, T-Kalshi

Places: Cayman, Imperial College London

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