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CEDG

In diligence

IN MOTIONProperty title

Cedar Hold

Window a fewd · waitlist a short list · our cut 0%. Do the maths.

They killed 5 public sentences before we listed them. Thin files do not get that far.

Cedar Hold — A permissioned record of title, invoices, warehouse receipts or port documents for houses that already finance or move goods. The event is the product. The bill of lading does not get replaced by a meme.

In a 14-day diligence sprint (day 13). This is when the story, the customers and the legal path get written down — or the file stops.

Closed stamp is coming. a few days is the number. There is not a second number.

Diligence, not a prospectus. RCA Pad does not allocate, take orders, or close funding. If this company raises, it raises with its own counsel.

Sprint day

0/14

Window

Closed

Heat

0/99

Inbound / wk

0asks

Asking now

0live

Named pilots

Redacted on the public page

Live nodes

Land registry adapters

Counsel hours

Not offering — locked

Sentences killed

Before listing

Claims live

4/10

Sprint

Our cut

Of any proceeds

Plate Horizon · 2936

CEDG

The plate

Horizon. Edition 2936.

A unique plate for Cedar Hold. Geometry, orbit, and edition belong to this company — no other listing on the board shares it.

CEDG · Oslo · Property title

Score

Desk diligence

Pilots

Named, redacted

Sprint

Day 13 of 14

Oslo

Trade-finance banks

Sells

Warehouse

Warehouse seat

Markets

Norway

Years

Founded 2025

Surfaces

Land registry adapters

Complete

File readiness

The wedge

Warehouse seat

Cedar Hold digitises a hold, not a commodity.

Why the desk took it

A real job, not a ticker.

Legal title jurisdiction was in the application. Unusual, and good.

Traction

2 named pilots (redacted).

Founded 2025, headquartered in Oslo. 2 named pilots on file (identities redacted in public). 4 nodes or connected surfaces reported. Desk diligence score 79/100. Sprint day 13 of 14. Two licensed PSPs on a paid pilot — identities off the public file. A redacted engagement letter landed in week one. That is why the desk took the meeting.

Next 12 months

One financed shipment against this record.

A commodity NFT is the thing this file will not be. Annual software against an ops cost the board can see. Switching cost is the record, not the brand.

The brief

How a serious reader should hold this.

In Oslo, the person who signs the monthly pack already has a vendor. Cedar Hold is not asking them to believe in a token. It is asking them to move one job — the one that currently lives in a spreadsheet, a fax, or a person who is about to retire — onto a record that can be shown to counsel. The queue to read that record is already not empty.

What you can verify today is smaller than the slide. What you cannot verify is named as a question, not a promise. That is the difference between this company and a pad listing — and why the waitlist is not a coin queue.

US traffic was taken off the public surfaces in the first working session. Cedar Hold did not argue. Adult companies do not costume a US offering.

From ops

Fixed fee. Deposit to start. 0% of proceeds. Token-only pay is declined. Percentage of raise is declined.

From the pilot

The legal source of truth stays with the incumbent register, admin, or custodian. Cedar Hold does not attest to its own facts.

From the founder

A dual-control drill exists on paper. Production evidence is the next artefact, not a tweet.

The window

Miss this and you read the archive.

Skip it and you read the archive. Counterparties who matter will have already asked.

Restricted markets stay dark. Named markets are live. That discipline is the scarce thing.

We do not allocate. We do not take a cut. We will not hold the window open for you.

Window

Closed

Closed. History only — not a place to buy.

Sentences killed: 5
Counsel hours on file: 43
Asks / week: 38
Our cut: 0% of proceeds

US came off the site in the first session. We did not argue. We are not children.
Owen Ng, Chief executive

This company

Cedar Hold

Not the incumbent brand. Cedar Hold sells the job the brand will not staff.

In the same conversation

Contour / we.trade (history)
CargoX
Bank trade portals
Not a commodity NFT

The bet

Why this company exists.

Cedar Hold digitises a hold, not a commodity.

Banks want to digitise without putting a commodity on a public chain. Warehouses will not be first movers. A permissioned title event they already recognise is the on-ramp.

Documentary trade is a trillion-scale flow. Software that shortens a hold by two days is a spread.

Versus the field

A generalist vendor can copy the slide in a quarter. They cannot copy the named record, the scheme map, or the auditor conversation. That is the year they would have to buy.

Oslo being the city does not make local retail a default audience. Communications capable of inducing investment activity still have a promotions problem.

How it works

01A document that already exists is hashed and evented
02Title changes when the parties that already can change it say so
03Financiers see the state they are underwriting
04No public listing of the cargo as an asset
05Title changes only when the parties that already can change it say so
06The legal source of truth stays with the incumbent register, admin, or custodian.

In the same conversation as

Contour / we.trade (history)
CargoX
Bank trade portals
Not a commodity NFT

If they raise

Where the money would actually go.

Not a token float. A budget against work. RCA Pad still takes 0% of proceeds.

Claims & campaign ops
36%
Keeping the public story from running ahead of the claims register.
Certifications & adapters
22%
Dual-control drills, key ceremonies, and the person who owns them.
Control environment
14%
Hiring the operator who already does this job at a licensed firm.
Second market
28%
Adapter work against the incumbent register, admin, or custodian.

Operating week

What “in market” actually looks like.

ThuCustomerNamed pilot (redacted) sees the same record the auditor saw.
MonClaimsEvery public sentence checked against the register. Anything extra is unpublished.
SunOwnersWho can decide messaging and budget on a recorded line. If the answer is nobody, stop.
TueExceptionsOvernight breaks post back into the customer’s case system. No side book.

The wedge

Why this one, not the other one.

They sell: Warehouse seat
Who pays: Two licensed PSPs on a paid pilot — identities off the public file.
Unit economics: Annual software against an ops cost the board can see. Switching cost is the record, not the brand.
Moat on file: A named warehouse or port has written a live event.
Switching cost: Permissioned connectivity is the moat. Public endpoints would erase it.
Vs the comps: A commodity NFT is the thing this file will not be.
Why we listed it: Legal title jurisdiction was in the application. Unusual, and good.

Next twelve months

What has to be true.

One financed shipment against this record.

A redacted engagement letter landed in week one. That is why the desk took the meeting.

Capital would fund the adapter work and a named counsel memo, not a public sale.

Traction

What you can verify today.

Operating notes for Land registry adapters
No token contract listed as a public sale
Named founder; customer still a conversation
Oslo is the operating centre
The waitlist, if any, is a product list — not a book
RCA Pad does not take a cut of proceeds

Readiness

Six things a serious buyer asks. 100 is “ready to take to counsel and a customer.”

Product36
Customers62
Legal path62
Tech maturity48
Demand70
Market access68

Risks

What can kill it.

The one that actually kills it

A second geography without a lock

Extending the record into a market that is still restricted is how a clean Oslo story becomes a fact pattern. The restricted list exists for a reason: Public residual claims, United States.

Legal title

If the court still wants the paper, the chain is a copy. Ask which jurisdiction has said otherwise.

Warehouse adoption

One bank is not a network. The warehouse has to write the event.

Public token

Tokenising the cargo for a crowd is a different, usually worse, company.

Fraud

Digitising a fake bill faster is not progress. Dual-control is the feature.

Paper still wins in court

If the court wants the original, the chain is a copy. Ask which jurisdiction has said otherwise.

Token relapse

A later round that wants a public token puts Cedar Hold in a different perimeter. The file treats that as a hard stop.

Ask these next

01What does renewal look like if no round ever happens?
02What happens if a founder later wants a public token?
03Who can unpublish a public sentence in 24 hours, by name?
04Who is the first named paying customer — not a letter of intent?
05Is the waitlist demand for a product, or a queue for a coin?
06Which incumbent can copy this in a quarter, and what would they have to migrate?

Structure

How money would actually move.

Sprint is diligence, not a raise. A pack at the end is a file the company can take to its own lawyers and investors. RCA Pad does not complete funding.

Entity: Cedar Hold AS
Path on file: Not offering — locked
Posture: No public sale
Pack: Sprint

Where they can operate

Named vs off-limits.

Named markets are where a sentence is allowed. Restricted is where it is not. This is not a worldwide offering.

Norwaynamed
EEA professionalnamed
Public residual claimsrestricted
United Statesrestricted

Team

Who runs it.

Owen NgChief executive

Stack

Land registry adapters
Property title
Takedown SLA
Approval trail

Named with them

Northbridge Counsel
Helix Audit
Meridian Tax

Who can decide

The technical founder is on the record as engineering. Contractors in undisclosed jurisdictions are written down as a fact, not hidden. Facts can be managed. Hiding them is how companies die in diligence.

If the first customer renews, the adapter work pays for itself. If they do not, Cedar Hold is a services firm with a slide. The twelve-month test is renewal, not waitlist.

Claims with evidence

Statements with evidence.

Statement	Evidence	Status
Cedar Hold does not sell a token to the public on this pad	Posture lock	live
The product is property title sold to institutions	Architecture + customer type	live
Land registry adapters is the method — not a listed asset	Desk snapshot	live
Retail buyers are out of scope	Named markets lock	live
Any raise completes with the issuer’s counsel and providers — not on RCA Pad	Fixed-fee terms	live
Pilot identities redacted in public	Desk file	draft
No public token is sold on this pad	Engagement terms + posture lock	live
Customers contemplated: Norway, EEA professional	Named markets on the file	live

On the record

Day 0 lockKick-offSep
Claim inventoryPackSep
Audience matrix draftPackSep

Operating log

11 Sep 12:11
Workshop. Funnel has no purchase step.
08 Sep 09:00
Kick-off. Exclusions recorded.
09 Sep 16:20
A claim killed for missing evidence.

Path to now

D0
Kick-off
Geographies, owners, SLA, exclusions.
D14
Read-out
Accept the pack or stop.

Not a subscription

This is not a sale page.

Sprint is diligence, not a raise. A pack at the end is a file the company can take to its own lawyers and investors. RCA Pad does not complete funding. Founders who want a pack like this one apply. Readers who want the company talk to the company — not to this pad.

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