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

DRIE

Closed

CLOSEDPayments orchestration

Drift Rail

Window closed. a short list asked while it was live. You are reading history.

Heat 30. Window 0d. If you are going to read one Payments orchestration company, this is the one.

Drift Rail — 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.

Closed on this board. Any capital event was completed with the issuer’s own providers. RCA Pad took 0%.

Closed. The live conversation is over. The pack remains as archive.

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

Stage

completed

Window

Closed

Heat

0/99

Inbound / wk

0asks

Asking now

0live

Named pilots

Redacted on the public page

Live nodes

Account abstraction · testnet

Counsel hours

Netherlands · closed private round

Sentences killed

Before listing

Claims live

0/9

Sprint

Our cut

Of any proceeds

Plate Concentric · 4579

DRIE

The plate

Concentric. Edition 4579.

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

DRIE · Amsterdam · Payments orchestration

Score

Desk diligence

Pilots

Named, redacted

Stage

completed

Amsterdam

Licensed PSPs

Sells

Annual

Annual PSP seat

Markets

Netherlands

Years

Founded 2022

Surfaces

Account abstraction · testnet

Complete

File readiness

The wedge

Annual PSP seat

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.

The AA layer is on testnet and they said so — no mainnet theatre.

Traction

2 named pilots (redacted).

Founded 2022, headquartered in Amsterdam. 2 named pilots on file (identities redacted in public). 18 nodes or connected surfaces reported. Desk diligence score 87/100. A transfer agent willing to consume a revoke in production. A dual-control drill exists on paper. We have not watched it live yet — that is the next ask.

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 Payments orchestration is not a rumour. It is how this board stays readable. Drift Rail 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.

On a Tuesday in Amsterdam, an exception posts back into the customer’s existing case system. Nobody opens a side spreadsheet. That is the product: the night someone in ops does not stay late.

From ops

We will not describe this as Reg CA-compliant, MiCA-stickered, or FCA-authorised. Issuers retain their own counsel in every relevant jurisdiction.

From the pilot

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

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.

A later reader gets the same PDF. They do not get the same access.

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

Read it once, properly, while the number is still green. Then decide.

Window

Closed

Closed. History only — not a place to buy.

Sentences killed: 13
Counsel hours on file: 26
Asks / week: 1
Our cut: 0% of proceeds

The waitlist is people who want the product. If they wanted a coin they would be on a different pad.
Sasha Ibrahim, Chief executive

This company

Drift Rail

The copycats will arrive after certification. That is why the window is now.

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. Drift Rail is priced as software against an invoice that already exists.

The live path is Netherlands · closed private round. Proposed Regulation Crypto Assets is not treated as a calendar slot. Build as if it never opens.

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
06Retail and unnamed geographies are structurally off the form, not only in the footer.

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.

Certifications & adapters
38%
Hiring the operator who already does this job at a licensed firm.
Second market
21%
Adapter work against the incumbent register, admin, or custodian.
Counsel & perimeter
22%
Keeping the public story from running ahead of the claims register.
Named operators
19%
The remaining certifications and the second named market.

Operating week

What “in market” actually looks like.

FriKill switchRehearse unpublish in 24 hours. If it takes a committee, it is not a switch.
SunOwnersWho can decide messaging and budget on a recorded line. If the answer is nobody, stop.
ThuCustomerNamed pilot (redacted) sees the same record the auditor saw.
WedCounselPerimeter diffs. If the site drifted from the memo, the site moves — not the memo.

The wedge

Why this one, not the other one.

They sell: Annual PSP seat
Who pays: A transfer agent willing to consume a revoke in production.
Unit economics: Seat plus event. If they ever attach a token as the unit of account, the file stops.
Moat on file: Scheme certifications already in motion with two processors.
Switching cost: Permissioned connectivity is the moat. Public endpoints would erase it.
Vs the comps: A L2 payments coin is the thing this file has already refused.
Why we listed it: The AA layer is on testnet and they said so — no mainnet theatre.

Next twelve months

What has to be true.

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

A dual-control drill exists on paper. We have not watched it live yet — that is the next ask.

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

Traction

What you can verify today.

Operating notes for Account abstraction · testnet
No token contract listed as a public sale
Pilot letters on file, identities redacted
Amsterdam is the operating centre
The waitlist, if any, is a product list — not a book
Raise, if any, closed with issuer providers

Readiness

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

Product95
Customers62
Legal path84
Tech maturity82
Demand10
Market access68

Risks

What can kill it.

The one that actually kills it

The named customer is a letter of intent

Pilots that cannot be named, even redacted, are theatre. One paying seat that an auditor has seen is worth more than a waitlist of a short list.

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 Drift Rail. Concentration in one scheme is existential.

Token relapse

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

Ask these next

01Which incumbent can copy this in a quarter, and what would they have to migrate?
02Who can unpublish a public sentence in 24 hours, by name?
03Where do keys, title, or NAV liability sit — and is that person licensed?
04Has counsel written the perimeter in a memo you can file?
05Is the waitlist demand for a product, or a queue for a coin?
06If RCA Pad disappeared tomorrow, could the customer still run the job?

Structure

How money would actually move.

Window closed. Tombstone is theirs. Archive is ours. 0% of proceeds.

Entity: Drift Rail B.V.
Path on file: Netherlands · closed private round
Posture: Window closed
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.

Netherlandsnamed
EEA professionalnamed
Public residual claimsrestricted
United Statesrestricted

Team

Who runs it.

Sasha IbrahimChief executive
Rafa BergChief compliance

Stack

Account abstraction · testnet
Payments orchestration
Takedown SLA

Named with them

Helix Audit
Meridian Tax

Who can decide

Sasha Ibrahim came in named. The team is not a handle. Drift Rail B.V. exists, founded 2022, headquartered in Amsterdam. Anonymity would have been an automatic decline.

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
Drift Rail does not sell a token to the public on this pad	Posture lock	withdrawn
The product is payments orchestration sold to institutions	Architecture + customer type	withdrawn
Account abstraction · testnet is the method — not a listed asset	Desk snapshot	withdrawn
Retail buyers are out of scope	Named markets lock	withdrawn
Any raise completes with the issuer’s counsel and providers — not on RCA Pad	Fixed-fee terms	withdrawn
Pilot identities redacted in public	Desk file	withdrawn
No public token is sold on this pad	Engagement terms + posture lock	withdrawn
Customers contemplated: Netherlands, EEA professional	Named markets on the file	withdrawn

On the record

Final registerArchiveAug
Close reportReportAug
Tombstone copyArchiveAug

Operating log

19 Aug 10:00
Close report. 0% of proceeds.
12 Aug 18:00
Drift Rail archived. Live claims withdrawn.
11 Aug 09:30
Final creator pass. Residual claims pulled.

Path to now

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Window closed. Tombstone is theirs. Archive is ours. 0% of proceeds. 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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