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

GRAZ

In diligence

IN MOTIONClearing

Grain Ridge

Heat 41. 10 asks this week. 0% of any raise comes here.

Renewal — not the round — is the twelve-month test. The people in this queue already know that.

Grain Ridge — A permissioned netting engine for trading venues and brokers that are already licensed. It reduces what has to settle. It is not a new CCP, and it is not a collateral token.

In a 14-day diligence sprint (day 1). 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 netting

Counsel hours

Not offering — locked

Sentences killed

Before listing

Claims live

2/6

Sprint

Our cut

Of any proceeds

Plate Concentric · 9681

GRAZ

The plate

Concentric. Edition 9681.

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

GRAZ · Amsterdam · Clearing

Score

Desk diligence

Pilots

Named, redacted

Sprint

Day 1 of 14

Amsterdam

Licensed venues

Sells

Per-netted

Per-netted notional

Markets

Netherlands

Years

Founded 2025

Surfaces

Permissioned netting

Complete

File readiness

The wedge

Per-netted notional

They will not tokenise margin. That sentence is why they are on this board.

Why the desk took it

A real job, not a ticker.

They did not claim to be a CCP. Counsel will still ask.

Traction

One named pilot (redacted).

Founded 2025, headquartered in Amsterdam. One named pilot on file (redacted in public). 9 nodes or connected surfaces reported. Desk diligence score 81/100. Sprint day 1 of 14. A coverholder or carrier running one binder on this record. A dual-control drill exists on paper. We have not watched it live yet — that is the next ask.

Next 12 months

Two members netting live, or stop.

LCH is the CCP. This is netting in front of the CCP. 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 Amsterdam, the person who signs the monthly pack already has a vendor. Grain Ridge 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.

The auditor of a redacted pilot has seen a dual-record. Switching away now means a new auditor conversation. That is the switching cost — not the logo.

From the pilot

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

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

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.

The window

Miss this and you read the archive.

The next Clearing company on this board will not have this waitlist, this HQ, or this counsel posture.

Counsel hours on file: enough that a later reader can tell this was not improvised.

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: 17
Counsel hours on file: 57
Asks / week: 10
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.
Elena Nair, Chief executive

This company

Grain Ridge

Not the incumbent brand. Grain Ridge sells the job the brand will not staff.

In the same conversation

LCH / Eurex (incumbent CCPs)
Caldastone-style utilities
Not a DeFi clearinghouse

The bet

Why this company exists.

They will not tokenise margin. That sentence is why they are on this board.

T+1 and capital rules make gross settlement expensive. Venues will buy netting as a service before they will buy a new licence.

Post-trade cost is a line on every broker P&L. A 10% cut in settlement fails is a CFO conversation.

Versus the field

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

Amsterdam 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

01Members post positions they already hold
02The engine nets what the rulebook allows
03Only the residual hits the existing settlement rail
04Collateral as a token is an exclusion on this file
05Only the residual hits the existing settlement rail — gross never leaves the venue
06The legal source of truth stays with the incumbent register, admin, or custodian.

In the same conversation as

LCH / Eurex (incumbent CCPs)
Caldastone-style utilities
Not a DeFi clearinghouse

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
30%
Hiring the operator who already does this job at a licensed firm.
Claims & campaign ops
27%
Dual-control drills, key ceremonies, and the person who owns them.
Control environment
15%
A counsel memo that can survive a later reader.
Counsel & perimeter
28%
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.
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.

The wedge

Why this one, not the other one.

They sell: Per-netted notional
Who pays: A coverholder or carrier running one binder on this record.
Unit economics: Bps on a job that already has a budget line. A public coin would not make the invoice larger.
Moat on file: Default waterfall drafted with counsel, not a Discord poll.
Switching cost: Once the record is the record, the incumbent copy has to migrate history. That is the year.
Vs the comps: LCH is the CCP. This is netting in front of the CCP.
Why we listed it: They did not claim to be a CCP. Counsel will still ask.

Next twelve months

What has to be true.

Two members netting live, or stop.

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

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 netting
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
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.”

Product76
Customers40
Legal path62
Tech maturity63
Demand22
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 Amsterdam story becomes a fact pattern. The restricted list exists for a reason: Mainland China retail, United States.

CCP perimeter

If a regulator reads this as clearing, the licence problem is existential.

Collateral token

That ask has been refused on files like this. It should stay refused.

Member default

Who eats the loss? If the answer is ‘the protocol’, there is no protocol that can.

Incumbent freeze-out

CCPs can copy the netting logic faster than a startup can collect members.

CCP copy

The incumbent can ship the same netting as a feature. Grain Ridge has to be cheaper or faster before that happens.

Facts vs theatre

A proof of a fake book is still a fake book. Grain Ridge has to attach to the real one, in Amsterdam.

Ask these next

01Where do keys, title, or NAV liability sit — and is that person licensed?
02Which geography is actually locked, and which is a hope?
03Is the waitlist demand for a product, or a queue for a coin?
04Who is the first named paying customer — not a letter of intent?
05Which incumbent can copy this in a quarter, and what would they have to migrate?
06What does renewal look like if no round ever happens?

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: Grain Ridge B.V.
Path on file: Not offering — locked
Posture: Private only
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
Mainland China retailrestricted
United Statesrestricted

Team

Who runs it.

Elena NairChief executive
Tomás OkoyeChief executive

Stack

Permissioned netting
Clearing
Disclosure templates

Named with them

Clearline
Meridian Tax

Who can decide

Elena Nair (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.

A second counterparty writing into the record is the only network effect that counts. One customer is a consultancy. Two is a market.

Claims with evidence

Statements with evidence.

Statement	Evidence	Status
Grain Ridge does not sell a token to the public on this pad	Posture lock	live
The product is clearing sold to institutions	Architecture + customer type	live
Permissioned netting 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	Desk file	draft
No public token is sold on this pad	Engagement terms + posture lock	live
Customers contemplated: Netherlands, EEA professional	Named markets on the file	live

On the record

Day 0 lockKick-offSep
Claim inventoryPackSep
Audience matrix draftPackSep

Operating log

11 Sep 9:37
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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