VELMVellum Protocol8,420 waitlist KITEKite Ledger2,190 waitlist PLSDPalisade ID1,640 waitlist NRTLNorthlineDay 8 of 14 SABLSable RailDay 5 of 14 QULLQuill MarketsDay 11 of 14 CDWLCinder Well6,947 waitlist HRTNHartline8,787 waitlist OBSNObsidian Rail4,416 waitlist FENLFen Clearing1,060 waitlist LUMNLumen Books5,510 waitlist RDCTRedact ID6,485 waitlist HRBNHarbor NAV6,973 waitlist QLTDQuilt1,876 waitlist NMBMNimbus Match7,864 waitlist BRASBrass4,166 waitlist SLSTSolstice Credit9,342 waitlist WLTRWillow Transfer7,031 waitlist EMBREmber Registry2,487 waitlist NQAYNorth Quay2,013 waitlist KLNSKiln4,412 waitlist GLSHGlass HouseDay 8 of 14 IRNPIron PierDay 1 of 14 PLFRPale FireDay 3 of 14 VELMVellum Protocol8,420 waitlist KITEKite Ledger2,190 waitlist PLSDPalisade ID1,640 waitlist NRTLNorthlineDay 8 of 14 SABLSable RailDay 5 of 14 QULLQuill MarketsDay 11 of 14 CDWLCinder Well6,947 waitlist HRTNHartline8,787 waitlist OBSNObsidian Rail4,416 waitlist FENLFen Clearing1,060 waitlist LUMNLumen Books5,510 waitlist RDCTRedact ID6,485 waitlist HRBNHarbor NAV6,973 waitlist QLTDQuilt1,876 waitlist NMBMNimbus Match7,864 waitlist BRASBrass4,166 waitlist SLSTSolstice Credit9,342 waitlist WLTRWillow Transfer7,031 waitlist EMBREmber Registry2,487 waitlist NQAYNorth Quay2,013 waitlist KLNSKiln4,412 waitlist GLSHGlass HouseDay 8 of 14 IRNPIron PierDay 1 of 14 PLFRPale FireDay 3 of 14

CLON

In market

HOT WINDOWPayroll rails

Clove Mere

Skip it and you read a PDF. Counterparties who matter will have already called.

The protocol pitch was declined. What remains is software against an invoice. 8,726 people still asked.

Clove Mere — A routing layer in front of payment firms that already hold licences. One API picks the rail (SEPA, cards, local schemes) and can present a wallet-like checkout. The wallet is the interface. It is not a coin.

Live campaign. 8,726 on the product waitlist — that is demand, not an allocation.

4 live counterparties in the thread. The public page is the overflow.

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

Waitlist

Window

Closed

Heat

0/99

Inbound / wk

0asks

Asking now

0live

Named pilots

Redacted on the public page

Live nodes

Payroll adapters

Counsel hours

Vancouver · counsel-named

Sentences killed

Before listing

Claims live

7/8

Growth

Our cut

Of any proceeds

Plate Horizon · 5790

CLON

The plate

Horizon. Edition 5790.

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

CLON · Vancouver · Payroll rails

Score

Desk diligence

Pilots

Named, redacted

Waitlist

Product demand

Vancouver

Licensed PSPs

Sells

Per-transaction

Per-transaction routing fee

Markets

Vancouver

Years

Founded 2025

Surfaces

Payroll adapters

Complete

File readiness

The wedge

Per-transaction routing fee

The wedge is scheme sprawl: every new local rail is a new integration the PSP does not want to own.

Why the desk took it

A real job, not a ticker.

US was taken off the file in the first hour. That is adult.

Traction

5 named pilots (redacted).

Founded 2025, headquartered in Vancouver. 5 named pilots on file (identities redacted in public). 8,726 on the waitlist, gated — product demand, not a book built. 16 nodes or connected surfaces reported. Desk diligence score 91/100. A qualified custodian reconciling against this book. Architecture says keys / title / NAV liability sit with a named licensed party — not Clove Mere.

Next 12 months

Live routing in one named scheme. Everything else is a slide.

A L2 payments coin is the thing this file has already refused. Seat plus event. If they ever attach a token as the unit of account, the file stops.

The brief

How a serious reader should hold this.

The decline pile in Payroll rails is not a rumour. It is how this board stays readable. Clove Mere is what survived. That is the sell.

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. Clove Mere did not argue. Adult companies do not costume a US offering.

From the founder

This communication is not an offer. Participation mechanics do not exist on this pad. If a later reader treats the public stack as the offer, the stack was already wrong.

From counsel

US persons are outside the audience. A form that asks “are you accredited?” without verification is not an exemption.

From the pilot

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

The window

Miss this and you read the archive.

The incumbent will still be slow in a year. The window will not.

The comment period is not a path. This company is priced as if that is already true.

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: 11
Counsel hours on file: 70
Asks / week: 1,091
Our cut: 0% of proceeds

We would rather be archive-clean than live-loud. The waitlist showed up anyway.
Devon Shah, Chief executive

This company

Clove Mere

The protocol pitch is the thing this company has already refused.

In the same conversation

Modulr
Lemonway
Checkout.com routing
Not a L2 payments coin

The bet

Why this company exists.

The wedge is scheme sprawl: every new local rail is a new integration the PSP does not want to own.

MiCA is forcing PSPs to choose a perimeter. Houses that will not become CASPs still need programmable checkout. The ones that pick software over a coin will buy this. The ones that want a token will be declined here.

PSP orchestration in Europe is a multi-billion software market. Buyers already pay for routing. A token would not make the invoice larger; it would make the licence harder.

Versus the field

L2 wrappers are cheaper. They are also a different perimeter — and declined here. Clove Mere is priced as software against an invoice that already exists.

Named: Vancouver. Off-limits: Global public, United States. A US person hearing an offering communication is a US problem even if the company sits in Vancouver. Blocking an IP and taking a US Telegram admin is not a block.

How it works

01Payer or merchant hits a single checkout API
02The router selects a licensed rail the PSP already runs
03Account-abstraction is an optional UX layer (currently testnet)
04Settlement lands in the PSP’s existing accounts — no new token
05Exceptions (chargebacks, scheme rejects) post back into the PSP’s existing case system
06Kill of a public sentence is an hour, not a committee.

In the same conversation as

Modulr
Lemonway
Checkout.com routing
Not a L2 payments coin

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
40%
A counsel memo that can survive a later reader.
Control environment
27%
Adapter work against the incumbent register, admin, or custodian.
Named operators
22%
Hiring the operator who already does this job at a licensed firm.
Certifications & adapters
11%
Dual-control drills, key ceremonies, and the person who owns them.

Operating week

What “in market” actually looks like.

SatDarkNo creators. No threads. Restricted geos stay dark.
TueExceptionsOvernight breaks post back into the customer’s case system. No side book.
ThuCustomerNamed pilot (redacted) sees the same record the auditor saw.
SunOwnersWho can decide messaging and budget on a recorded line. If the answer is nobody, stop.

The wedge

Why this one, not the other one.

They sell: Per-transaction routing fee
Who pays: A qualified custodian reconciling against this book.
Unit economics: Seat plus event. If they ever attach a token as the unit of account, the file stops.
Moat on file: A design-partner PSP that will not talk to a second vendor this year.
Switching cost: Once the record is the record, the incumbent copy has to migrate history. That is the year.
Vs the comps: A L2 payments coin is the thing this file has already refused.
Why we listed it: US was taken off the file in the first hour. That is adult.

Next twelve months

What has to be true.

Live routing in one named scheme. Everything else is a slide.

Architecture says keys / title / NAV liability sit with a named licensed party — not Clove Mere.

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

Traction

What you can verify today.

Operating notes for Payroll adapters
No token contract listed as a public sale
Pilot letters on file, identities redacted
Vancouver 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.”

Product73
Customers96
Legal path84
Tech maturity94
Demand84
Market access44

Risks

What can kill it.

The one that actually kills it

The unit of account becomes a token

Seat plus event. If they attach a token as the unit of account, this company is a different company — and not one we will operate a campaign for.

Token temptation

If the wallet layer is ever described as a means of payment, the product becomes an e-money or CASP problem. This file treats that as a hard stop.

Perimeter

A supervisor can still read account-abstraction as issuing. Until counsel names the path, treat the AA layer as a lab.

Customer concentration

A handful of PSP design partners can stall the company if they slip. Ask who is paying, not who is ‘interested’.

United States

The US is out of scope on this file. That is deliberate. It also caps the TAM.

Scheme freeze

A card scheme can kill the router without talking to Clove Mere. Concentration in one scheme is existential.

Path silence

If counsel will not name a path and not-offering is not locked, heated waitlist copy is an accidental offering.

Ask these next

01Which geography is actually locked, and which is a hope?
02Where do keys, title, or NAV liability sit — and is that person licensed?
03What happens if a founder later wants a public token?
04If RCA Pad disappeared tomorrow, could the customer still run the job?
05Who is the first named paying customer — not a letter of intent?
06Is the waitlist demand for a product, or a queue for a coin?

Structure

How money would actually move.

If this company raises, it raises with its own counsel and providers. The waitlist is a product list. It is not a round, a book, or an allocation on RCA Pad. We do not take a cut.

Entity: Clove Mere Ltd
Path on file: Vancouver · counsel-named
Posture: Private only
Pack: Growth

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.

Vancouvernamed
Global publicrestricted
United Statesrestricted

Team

Who runs it.

Devon ShahChief executive

Stack

Payroll adapters
Payroll rails
Audit log
Disclosure templates

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.

Year two is a second named market and the remaining certifications — still permissioned. It is not a public book. A public book would be a different company.

Claims with evidence

Statements with evidence.

Statement	Evidence	Status
Clove Mere does not sell a token to the public on this pad	Posture lock	live
The product is payroll rails sold to institutions	Architecture + customer type	live
Payroll 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
Production date for the chain layer is not committed	No board minute	draft
No public token is sold on this pad	Engagement terms + posture lock	live
Customers contemplated: Vancouver	Named markets on the file	live

On the record

Sprint packPackJun
Counsel lockPathJul
Claims register liveRegisterAug
Creator briefBriefSep

Operating log

11 Sep 09:42
Takedown SLA idle-tested.
08 Sep 11:40
A claim held for missing evidence.
04 Sep 08:22
Weekly report issued to the desk.
01 Sep 14:08
Creator set on disclosure. No buy language.

Path to now

Sprint
Pack accepted
Narrative, matrix, claims locked.
Path
Counsel names it
Or the file stays not-offering.
Live
Campaign
Waitlist and register. No purchase journey.

Not a subscription

This is not a sale page.

If this company raises, it raises with its own counsel and providers. The waitlist is a product list. It is not a round, a book, or an allocation on RCA Pad. We do not take a cut. 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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