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Research, design, and institutional intelligence
for the next generation of finance
Kamui Labs develops advanced technologies to address pricing, risk, and liquidity challenges in DeFi and tokenized markets. In partnership with pioneering institutional funds and vaults, we experiment across tokenized real-world assets |
Research, design,
and institutional intelligence
for the next generation of finance
applied to tokenized
RWA investing
Kamui Labs develops advanced technologies to address pricing, risk, and liquidity challenges in DeFi and tokenized markets. In partnership with pioneering institutional funds and vaults, we experiment across tokenized real-world assets |
Kamui Labs is our AI and DeFi innovation lab focused on exploring emerging technologies and translating them into practical systems for pricing, risk, and liquidity challenges in DeFi and tokenized markets for investors to use with confidence.
Kamui Finance advances the adoption
of tokenized finance through research, design,
and carefully staged product development.
Institutional partners
Innovations in AI and DeFi
Our institutional clients, including the Kamui RWA Professional Fund, enable us to receive market-based feedback necessary to continually refine and adapt our models and systems.
We explore how emerging technologies can strengthen the foundations
of tokenized finance, then translate research into practical systems
that support institutional adoption.
Next generation of intelligence
Technologies of tokenized finance
Our team of AI researchers, engineers, and product designers collaborates with credit and risk professionals to develop the next generation of pricing, risk, and liquidity intelligence.
Our team of AI researchers, engineers, and product designers collaborates with credit and risk professionals to develop the next generation of pricing, risk, and liquidity intelligence.
Overview
Kamui Labs is our AI and DeFi innovation lab focused on exploring emerging technologies and translating them into practical systems for pricing, risk, and liquidity challenges in DeFi and tokenized markets for investors to use with confidence.
Kamui Finance advances the adoption
of tokenized finance through research, design,
and carefully staged product development.
Technologies of tokenized finance
We explore how emerging technologies can strengthen the foundations
of tokenized finance, then translate research into practical systems
that support institutional adoption.
Our team of AI researchers, engineers, and product designers collaborates with credit and risk professionals to develop the next generation of pricing, risk, and liquidity intelligence.
Next generation of intelligence
Innovations in AI and DeFi
Institutional partners
Our institutional clients, including the Kamui RWA Professional Fund, enable us to receive market-based feedback necessary to continually refine and adapt our models and systems.
Overview
Kamui Labs is our AI and DeFi innovation lab
Apply modern AI to advance how financial data, valuation, and risk are understood across tokenized assets, bridging actionable analysis with decentralized infrastructure.
Model frameworks, signals, and confidence bands that support oracle‑grade pricing and independent price estimation across tokenized assets.
Develop methods for modeling and interpreting risk, liquidity, and collateral dynamics across redemption behavior and secondary market depth to give investors transparent, consistent, and data-driven insight into portfolio exposures.
Valuation
intelligence
Applied AI
for DeFi and RWAs
Risk and liquidity
innovation
Kamui Labs is our AI
and DeFi innovation lab
Apply modern AI to advance how financial data, valuation, and risk are understood across tokenized assets, bridging actionable analysis with decentralized infrastructure.
Applied AI
for DeFi and RWAs
Model frameworks, signals, and confidence bands that support oracle‑grade pricing and independent price estimation across tokenized assets.
Valuation
intelligence
Develop methods for modeling and interpreting risk, liquidity, and collateral dynamics across redemption behavior and secondary market depth to give investors transparent, consistent, and data-driven insight into portfolio exposures.
Risk and liquidity
innovation
How we work
We explore advances in AI and DeFi market design to strengthen the foundations of tokenized finance. Our team blends research, engineering, and product with credit and risk expertise.
Applied research
We run controlled experiments with select issuers, protocols, liquidity providers, and infrastructure partners. Successful pilots graduate into productized systems ready for institutional adoption.
Private pilots with partners
Each engagement moves through defined phases with clear success metrics, risk limits, and compliance checks, converting validated research into practical products that shape the next generation of financial infrastructure.
Productisation
How we work
We explore advances in AI and DeFi market design to strengthen the foundations of tokenized finance. Our team blends research, engineering, and product with credit and risk expertise.
Applied research
We run controlled experiments with select issuers, protocols, liquidity providers, and infrastructure partners. Successful pilots graduate into productized systems ready for institutional adoption.
Private pilots with partners
Each engagement moves through defined phases with clear success metrics, risk limits, and compliance checks, converting validated research into practical products that shape the next generation of financial infrastructure.
Productisation
Our users, including pioneering institutional funds
and vaults, utilise Kamui Labs' research in live market environments, providing us with the clinical feedback necessary to validate and scale the systems, models, and strategies developed by Labs.
Through this collaboration, new methods in valuation, risk, and liquidity intelligence can be tested with real assets and partners, accelerating the institutional adoption of tokenized finance.
Continuous refinement
through market feedback
Our users, including pioneering institutional funds
and vaults, utilise Kamui Labs' research in live market environments, providing us with the clinical feedback necessary to validate and scale the systems, models, and strategies developed by Labs.
Through this collaboration, new methods in valuation, risk, and liquidity intelligence can be tested with real assets and partners, accelerating the institutional adoption of tokenized finance.
Continuous refinement
through market feedback
Kamui’s team, with experience at leading global institutions and protocol ventures, combines market expertise with technical innovation to turn complex real-world exposures into composable on-chain products.
Our Team
Team
Advisors
Hadi
Kabalan
Kabalan
Award-winning institutional investment manager with 20+ years experience including at Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Bessemer Trust. Deep expertise in tech and blockchain.
Led some of the earliest Ethereum-based regulated tokenization projects.
Lipper Fund Awards for Best Risk-Adjusted Returns in the Technology Sector for two years running.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2016; CFA Charterholder 2003; City University Business School 1996.
Hadi
Kabalan
CEO
Finn
Hefferon
Hefferon
Start-up and venture operator with experience building and scaling fintech ventures from the ground up. As an early team member at Stake, a VC-backed real-estate investing platform with over AED 1 billion in transaction volume. Previously led venture-building and digital innovation at HSBC’s Serai, Standard Chartered and HSBC, delivering 0-to-1 products and major platform transformations across emerging markets. Advisor to early-stage founders on product strategy, growth and execution.
Finn
Hefferon
COO
Gabriele
Cacciola
Cacciola
CTO and product technology leader with 12+ years across cloud, data, AI and Web3. Founder at Bitfolks Technology delivering large-scale data lakehouses, blockchain integrations and Web3 risk protocols.
Former Senior Enterprise Data Architect at MUFG and Senior Data Architect at AWS ProServe, advising global enterprises including Bank of America, Pfizer, Adidas and BMW, and leading multi-million transformation programmes. Co-founded Ocyan and built ClearScore’s global analytics platform. EMBA from SDA Bocconi.
Gabriele
Cacciola
CTO
Hiro
Enomoto
Enomoto
Founding member of Cardano,
and of the world’s largest blockchains, and EMURGO Group,
the commercialization arm of Cardano, with over 10 years of token Management experience. VC investor and venture builder, including through EMURGO Asset Management.
Contributed to publishing of an international standard for security tokens with BSI, the UK’s national standards body.
Hiro
Enomoto
Director
Chiara
van der Put
van der Put
Private Equity investor and operator with a track record of over 12 transactions with an aggregate enterprise value of more than € 1.2 billion. She brings a rigorous execution mindset from her experience across primary and secondary acquisitions and debt financing, as well as deep operational experience as interim CFO and active board member. Chiara began her career as an investment banking analyst at J.P.Morgan in the TMT and Leveraged Finance team.
Chiara
van der Put
CBO
Makoto Ariki
4+ years experience in Artificial Intelligence technologies.
Past include C-suite positions at Mitsubishi Corporation, GENERADES Corporation, Cheka Corporation.
Serving as COO of DEVEL Corporation (current SYLA Brain), Executive Officer of SYLA Technologies, CEO of SYLA Biotech. Listed SYLA Technologies on the NASDAQ in New York in 2023. Founder of YAS Group.
Past include C-suite positions at Mitsubishi Corporation, GENERADES Corporation, Cheka Corporation.
Serving as COO of DEVEL Corporation (current SYLA Brain), Executive Officer of SYLA Technologies, CEO of SYLA Biotech. Listed SYLA Technologies on the NASDAQ in New York in 2023. Founder of YAS Group.
Makoto Ariki
AI Advisor
Walid Samaha
10+ years of experience in treasury, public markets, and private markets.
Past include portfolio manager role at a large regional Investment Holding Company.
Serving as senior investment manager for family office based in the UAE, looking after private markets investments.
Past include portfolio manager role at a large regional Investment Holding Company.
Serving as senior investment manager for family office based in the UAE, looking after private markets investments.
Walid Samaha
AI Analysis Trainer
Kamui’s team, with experience at leading global institutions and protocol ventures, combines market expertise with technical innovation to turn complex real-world exposures into composable on-chain products.
Team
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Team
Hadi
Kabalan
Kabalan
Award-winning institutional investment manager with 20+ years experience including at Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Bessemer Trust. Deep expertise in tech and blockchain.
Led some of the earliest Ethereum-based regulated tokenization projects.
Lipper Fund Awards for Best Risk-Adjusted Returns in the Technology Sector for two years running.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2016; CFA Charterholder 2003; City University Business School 1996.
Led some of the earliest Ethereum-based regulated tokenization projects.
Lipper Fund Awards for Best Risk-Adjusted Returns in the Technology Sector for two years running.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2016; CFA Charterholder 2003; City University Business School 1996.
Hadi
Kabalan
Kabalan
CEO
Hiro
Enomoto
Enomoto
Founding member of Cardano,
and of the world’s largest blockchains, and EMURGO Group,
the commercialization arm of Cardano, with over 10 years of token Management experience. VC investor and venture builder, including through EMURGO Asset Management.
Contributed to publishing of an international standard for security tokens with BSI, the UK’s national standards body.
and of the world’s largest blockchains, and EMURGO Group,
the commercialization arm of Cardano, with over 10 years of token Management experience. VC investor and venture builder, including through EMURGO Asset Management.
Contributed to publishing of an international standard for security tokens with BSI, the UK’s national standards body.
Hiro
Enomoto
Enomoto
Director
Finn
Hefferon
Hefferon
Start-up and venture operator with experience building and scaling fintech ventures from the ground up. As an early team member at Stake, a VC-backed real-estate investing platform with over AED 1 billion in transaction volume. Previously led venture-building and digital innovation at HSBC’s Serai, Standard Chartered and HSBC, delivering 0-to-1 products and major platform transformations across emerging markets. Advisor to early-stage founders on product strategy, growth and execution.
Finn
Hefferon
Hefferon
COO
Gabriele
Cacciola
Cacciola
CTO and product technology leader with 12+ years across cloud, data, AI and Web3. Founder at Bitfolks Technology delivering large-scale data lakehouses, blockchain integrations and Web3 risk protocols.
Former Senior Enterprise Data Architect at MUFG and Senior Data Architect at AWS ProServe, advising global enterprises including Bank of America, Pfizer, Adidas and BMW, and leading multi-million transformation programmes. Co-founded Ocyan and built ClearScore’s global analytics platform. EMBA from SDA Bocconi.
Former Senior Enterprise Data Architect at MUFG and Senior Data Architect at AWS ProServe, advising global enterprises including Bank of America, Pfizer, Adidas and BMW, and leading multi-million transformation programmes. Co-founded Ocyan and built ClearScore’s global analytics platform. EMBA from SDA Bocconi.
Gabriele
Cacciola
Cacciola
CTO
Chiara
van der Put
van der Put
Private Equity investor and operator with a track record of over 12 transactions with an aggregate enterprise value of more than €1.2 billion. She brings a rigorous execution mindset from her experience across primary and secondary acquisitions and debt financing, as well as deep operational experience as interim CFO and active board member. Chiara began her career as an investment banking analyst at J.P.Morgan in the TMT and Leveraged Finance team.
Chiara
van der Put
van der Put
CBO
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Advisors
Makoto Ariki
4+ years experience in Artificial Intelligence technologies.
Past include C-suite positions at Mitsubishi Corporation, GENERADES Corporation, Cheka Corporation.
Serving as COO of DEVEL Corporation (current SYLA Brain), Executive Officer of SYLA Technologies, CEO of SYLA Biotech. Listed SYLA Technologies on the NASDAQ in New York in 2023. Founder of YAS Group.
Past include C-suite positions at Mitsubishi Corporation, GENERADES Corporation, Cheka Corporation.
Serving as COO of DEVEL Corporation (current SYLA Brain), Executive Officer of SYLA Technologies, CEO of SYLA Biotech. Listed SYLA Technologies on the NASDAQ in New York in 2023. Founder of YAS Group.
Makoto Ariki
AI Advisor
Walid Samaha
10+ years of experience in treasury, public markets, and private markets.
Past include portfolio manager role at a large regional Investment Holding Company.
Serving as senior investment manager for family office based in the UAE, looking after private markets investments.
Past include portfolio manager role at a large regional Investment Holding Company.
Serving as senior investment manager for family office based in the UAE, looking after private markets investments.
Walid Samaha
AI Analysis Trainer
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