Baird Augustine has entered a white-label partnership with Chintai, the Singapore-based tokenization platform, to tokenize illiquid real-world assets — beginning with real estate — and open compliant secondary markets for them in the United States.
Regulated rails on both sides of the Pacific
Chintai operates under the Monetary Authority of Singapore with both a Capital Markets Services licence and a Recognised Market Operator licence, covering the full lifecycle of a tokenized asset from issuance through secondary trading. Paired with broker-dealer ATS licensure in the U.S., the partnership gives issuers a regulated path from origination to liquidity.
For Baird Augustine, the platform solves a build-versus-buy question the firm had been weighing internally: the technology matched what the team had planned to build, and adopting it moves the roadmap forward by years rather than quarters. A first planned issuance valued at roughly $200 million is in preparation.
What it means for our investor network
The firm's network of accredited investors — more than 30,000 high-net-worth individuals — gains access to fractional, tradable exposure in asset classes that have historically locked capital up for a decade at a time. Tokenization doesn't change the underlying diligence; it changes what happens after the close, replacing illiquidity with transparent, compliant markets.
It is a practical step toward the thesis behind everything we build: private markets that are more transparent, more accessible, and more liquid — without compromising on the standards that make them trustworthy.
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