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

DRIK

In diligence

IN MOTIONSettlement

Drift Kiln

a few days until this conversation is history.

A dual-control drill is on paper. A named licensed party holds the liability. That is rarer than a waitlist.

Drift Kiln — A permissioned DvP rail: cash against asset between banks, FMIs or funds that already have accounts with each other. It is the moment of exchange, not a new listed asset.

In a 14-day diligence sprint (day 4). This is when the story, the customers and the legal path get written down — or the file stops.

If you needed a reason to open diligence tonight: a short list other people already did.

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

Permissioned settlement

Counsel hours

Not offering — locked

Sentences killed

Before listing

Claims live

2/6

Sprint

Our cut

Of any proceeds

Plate Lattice · 9251

DRIK

The plate

Lattice. Edition 9251.

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

DRIK · Lisbon · Settlement

Score

Desk diligence

Pilots

Named, redacted

Sprint

Day 4 of 14

Lisbon

Banks

Sells

Per

Per settled obligation

Markets

Lisbon

Years

Founded 2025

Surfaces

Permissioned settlement

Complete

File readiness

The wedge

Per settled obligation

The wedge is T+1 and 24/7 FX: overnight risk became visible.

Why the desk took it

A real job, not a ticker.

Finality law was in the application.

Traction

One named pilot (redacted).

Founded 2025, headquartered in Lisbon. One named pilot on file (redacted in public). 5 nodes or connected surfaces reported. Desk diligence score 80/100. Sprint day 4 of 14. Four origination desks posting into a closed tape. Counsel is named, even if the memo is still a draft. Unnamed counsel is how files die.

Next 12 months

Two banks, live DvP, even a small notional.

A public L1 is a different threat model and a different statute. Bps on a job that already has a budget line. A public coin would not make the invoice larger.

The brief

How a serious reader should hold this.

In Lisbon, the person who signs the monthly pack already has a vendor. Drift Kiln 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.

Drift Kiln exists because the incumbent brand will not staff the unglamorous middle of Settlement. The product is that middle. The token, if it ever exists, is not the product — and is not for sale here. The people in the queue already understood the difference.

A sentence went public and came down in under an hour. Jonah Voss treated the kill as an operating skill, not a PR event. Files that cannot do this do not stay listed.

From counsel

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

From ops

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

From the pilot

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

The window

Miss this and you read the archive.

If the window closes you still have the pack — as history. Not as a live conversation.

a short list people did not join a waitlist for a ticker. They joined for a job.

Open the diligence or watch it close. There is not a third option that still counts as early.

Window

Closed

Closed. History only — not a place to buy.

Sentences killed: 9
Counsel hours on file: 48
Asks / week: 17
Our cut: 0% of proceeds

If RCA Pad ever asked for a cut of a raise, we would walk. That is in the first email.
Jonah Voss, Chief executive

This company

Drift Kiln

Not the incumbent brand. Drift Kiln sells the job the brand will not staff.

In the same conversation

CLS
Fnality
RTGS upgrades
Not a public L1

The bet

Why this company exists.

The wedge is T+1 and 24/7 FX: overnight risk became visible.

T+1, 24/7 FX and on-chain funds make overnight risk visible. Banks will connect a rail before they will issue a coin.

Wholesale settlement is a volume business. Even a sliver of fails avoided is a number a treasurer recognises.

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.

The live path is Not offering — locked. Proposed Regulation Crypto Assets is not treated as a calendar slot. Build as if it never opens.

How it works

01Two permissioned parties lock an agreed obligation
02Asset and cash move together, or not at all
03Existing accounts are the source of funds
04No public chain sale of the rail’s token
05A named counterparty verifies; Drift Kiln does not attest to its own facts.

In the same conversation as

CLS
Fnality
RTGS upgrades
Not a public L1

If they raise

Where the money would actually go.

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

Counsel & perimeter
32%
Hiring the operator who already does this job at a licensed firm.
Control environment
25%
Dual-control drills, key ceremonies, and the person who owns them.
Named operators
16%
Keeping the public story from running ahead of the claims register.
Certifications & adapters
27%
The remaining certifications and the second named market.

Operating week

What “in market” actually looks like.

MonClaimsEvery public sentence checked against the register. Anything extra is unpublished.
TueExceptionsOvernight breaks post back into the customer’s case system. No side book.
ThuCustomerNamed pilot (redacted) sees the same record the auditor saw.
FriKill switchRehearse unpublish in 24 hours. If it takes a committee, it is not a switch.

The wedge

Why this one, not the other one.

They sell: Per settled obligation
Who pays: Four origination desks posting into a closed tape.
Unit economics: Bps on a job that already has a budget line. A public coin would not make the invoice larger.
Moat on file: Legal opinion on finality in the governing law.
Switching cost: Permissioned connectivity is the moat. Public endpoints would erase it.
Vs the comps: A public L1 is a different threat model and a different statute.
Why we listed it: Finality law was in the application.

Next twelve months

What has to be true.

Two banks, live DvP, even a small notional.

Counsel is named, even if the memo is still a draft. Unnamed counsel is how files die.

They have not asked us to run a sale. That ask would close the file.

Traction

What you can verify today.

Operating notes for Permissioned settlement
No token contract listed as a public sale
Pilot letters on file, identities redacted
Lisbon 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.”

Product49
Customers40
Legal path62
Tech maturity51
Demand34
Market access44

Risks

What can kill it.

The one that actually kills it

Counsel is a slide

Unnamed counsel is how companies die in diligence. Not offering — locked has to be a memo you can file, not a slogan on the hero.

Money issuance

If the rail issues a settlement asset, it is in the e-money / deposit perimeter.

Legal finality

Atomic in software is not final in court. Ask which law says it is.

Incumbent RTGS

Central banks are not asleep. A feature can become a standard.

Public token

Listing the rail’s unit is a sale. This pad does not run that sale.

Money issuance

If the rail issues a settlement asset, Drift Kiln is in the e-money / deposit perimeter. That is a different company.

Single-customer gravity

If the first named buyer is also the only buyer, Drift Kiln is a services shop with a ledger. Ask for the second.

Ask these next

01What does renewal look like if no round ever happens?
02Who is the first named paying customer — not a letter of intent?
03Has counsel written the perimeter in a memo you can file?
04Who can unpublish a public sentence in 24 hours, by name?
05Which geography is actually locked, and which is a hope?
06If RCA Pad disappeared tomorrow, could the customer still run the job?

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: Drift Kiln Ltd
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.

Lisbonnamed
Mainland China retailrestricted
United Statesrestricted

Team

Who runs it.

Jonah VossChief executive

Stack

Permissioned settlement
Settlement
Approval trail
Takedown SLA

Named with them

Northbridge Counsel
Clearline

Who can decide

Jonah Voss (Chief executive) will take a 30-minute call and decide budget. If the only person who can accept “we are not opening a sale” is a silent co-founder in another time zone, this company would not be on the board.

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

Claims with evidence

Statements with evidence.

Statement	Evidence	Status
Drift Kiln does not sell a token to the public on this pad	Posture lock	live
The product is settlement sold to institutions	Architecture + customer type	live
Permissioned settlement 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: Lisbon	Named markets on the file	live

On the record

Day 0 lockKick-offSep
Claim inventoryPackSep
Audience matrix draftPackSep

Operating log

11 Sep 16:14
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.

Launch your own How an RCAICO works

Other companies

VELMVellum ProtocolSettlement rails for private credit funds. Campaign live. No public token sale.KITEKite LedgerTrade-finance records on a permissioned L2. Live waitlist. Allocation is not on this pad.PLSDPalisade IDPermissioned identity for funds. Live in the EEA professional lane. No token, no sale.NRTLNorthlineOn-chain fund admin. Day 8 of 14. The pack is the product. Pathway locked: not offering.