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

HAZK

In diligence

IN MOTIONSettlement

Hazel Kiln

a few days until this conversation is history.

Zurich is not a backdrop. It is the city where the customer can be called on a recorded line.

Hazel 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 6). This is when the story, the customers and the legal path get written down — or the file stops.

13 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.

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

2/10

Sprint

Our cut

Of any proceeds

Plate Orbit · 5661

HAZK

The plate

Orbit. Edition 5661.

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

HAZK · Zurich · Settlement

Score

Desk diligence

Pilots

Named, redacted

Sprint

Day 6 of 14

Zurich

Banks

Sells

FMI

FMI seat

Markets

Switzerland

Years

Founded 2024

Surfaces

Permissioned settlement

Complete

File readiness

The wedge

FMI seat

Hazel Kiln sells a treasurer a night without fails.

Why the desk took it

A real job, not a ticker.

They did not pitch a token as the rail’s unit.

Traction

One named pilot (redacted).

Founded 2024, headquartered in Zurich. One named pilot on file (redacted in public). 4 nodes or connected surfaces reported. Desk diligence score 74/100. Sprint day 6 of 14. A national registry counterpart, not a scrape. A redacted engagement letter landed in week one. That is why the desk took the meeting.

Next 12 months

Still no coin as the settlement asset.

A public L1 is a different threat model and a different statute. They sell a fee the customer already pays a slower vendor for. TAM is that invoice, not a token float.

The brief

How a serious reader should hold this.

In Zurich, the person who signs the monthly pack already has a vendor. Hazel 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.

If you leave this page without opening the claims table, you have read marketing. The scarce version of Hazel Kiln is the version that survives counsel. It is on a clock.

A sentence went public and came down in under an hour. Luca Hale 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 the screen

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 founder

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.

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

A supervisor is already forcing a perimeter. Houses that pick software over a coin will buy this now.

The scarce thing is not the company. It is the next a few days of a live conversation.

Window

Closed

Closed. History only — not a place to buy.

Sentences killed: 6
Counsel hours on file: 20
Asks / week: 22
Our cut: 0% of proceeds

Kill the public sentence in an hour or do not list us. We can do the hour.
Luca Hale, Chief executive

This company

Hazel Kiln

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

In the same conversation

CLS
Fnality
RTGS upgrades
Not a public L1

The bet

Why this company exists.

Hazel Kiln sells a treasurer a night without fails.

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.

Zurich 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

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
05Kill of a public sentence is an hour, not a committee.

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.

Control environment
32%
The remaining certifications and the second named market.
Counsel & perimeter
26%
A counsel memo that can survive a later reader.
Certifications & adapters
20%
Hiring the operator who already does this job at a licensed firm.
Claims & campaign ops
22%
Keeping the public story from running ahead of the claims register.

Operating week

What “in market” actually looks like.

WedCounselPerimeter diffs. If the site drifted from the memo, the site moves — not the memo.
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.
MonClaimsEvery public sentence checked against the register. Anything extra is unpublished.

The wedge

Why this one, not the other one.

They sell: FMI seat
Who pays: A national registry counterpart, not a scrape.
Unit economics: They sell a fee the customer already pays a slower vendor for. TAM is that invoice, not a token float.
Moat on file: Two named banks in a live DvP, even if small.
Switching cost: The customer’s auditor has seen this book. Switching means a new auditor conversation.
Vs the comps: A public L1 is a different threat model and a different statute.
Why we listed it: They did not pitch a token as the rail’s unit.

Next twelve months

What has to be true.

Still no coin as the settlement asset.

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

If they raise, it is to hire the remaining certifications and the second market — not to float a coin.

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
Zurich 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.”

Product40
Customers40
Legal path62
Tech maturity48
Demand42
Market access90

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.

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, Hazel Kiln is in the e-money / deposit perimeter. That is a different company.

Token relapse

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

Ask these next

01Who can unpublish a public sentence in 24 hours, by name?
02If RCA Pad disappeared tomorrow, could the customer still run the job?
03Has counsel written the perimeter in a memo you can file?
04Is the waitlist demand for a product, or a queue for a coin?
05Who is the first named paying customer — not a letter of intent?
06What happens if a founder later wants a public token?

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: Hazel Kiln AG
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.

Switzerlandnamed
EEA professionalnamed
United Kingdomnamed
United States retailrestricted

Team

Who runs it.

Luca HaleChief executive

Stack

Permissioned settlement
Settlement
Approval trail
Disclosure templates

Named with them

Northbridge Counsel

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.

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
Hazel 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: Switzerland, EEA professional, United Kingdom	Named markets on the file	live

On the record

Day 0 lockKick-offSep
Claim inventoryPackSep
Audience matrix draftPackSep

Operating log

11 Sep 13:12
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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