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IVOC

In diligence

IN MOTIONDvP rails

Ivory Desk

If you read one DvP rails company this quarter, make it this one.

Heat 38. Window a fewd. If you are going to read one DvP rails company, this is the one.

Ivory Desk — 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 10). This is when the story, the customers and the legal path get written down — or the file stops.

A year from now this will be an obvious company or a missed one. The window decides which.

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 DvP

Counsel hours

Not offering — locked

Sentences killed

Before listing

Claims live

3/7

Sprint

Our cut

Of any proceeds

Plate Vault · 3722

IVOC

The plate

Vault. Edition 3722.

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

IVOC · Taipei · DvP rails

Score

Desk diligence

Pilots

Named, redacted

Sprint

Day 10 of 14

Taipei

Banks

Sells

Bank

Bank connector

Markets

Taipei

Years

Founded 2021

Surfaces

Permissioned DvP

Complete

File readiness

The wedge

Bank connector

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

2 named pilots (redacted).

Founded 2021, headquartered in Taipei. 2 named pilots on file (identities redacted in public). 5 nodes or connected surfaces reported. Desk diligence score 74/100. Sprint day 10 of 14. An AIFM whose auditor has seen the dual-record. 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. 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.

The first sentence Nia Krüger would not let us publish was the exciting one. What remains is slower — and scarcer: Ivory Desk Ltd selling DvP rails as software, from Taipei, to a buyer who already pays someone else to do this badly. That buyer is named. You are not, yet.

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. Ivory Desk did not argue. Adult companies do not costume a US offering.

From ops

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 the pilot

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

From counsel

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.

Skip it and you read the archive. Counterparties who matter will have already asked.

Switching cost is the auditor conversation. Once it happens, you are late.

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

Window

Closed

Closed. History only — not a place to buy.

Sentences killed: 9
Counsel hours on file: 22
Asks / week: 32
Our cut: 0% of proceeds

I will take thirty minutes and decide budget. If that person is not me, we should not be listed.
Nia Krüger, Chief executive

This company

Ivory Desk

A L2 wrapper is cheaper. It is also a different perimeter — and declined here.

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
05The legal source of truth stays with the incumbent register, admin, or custodian.

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.

Second market
34%
Dual-control drills, key ceremonies, and the person who owns them.
Counsel & perimeter
21%
Keeping the public story from running ahead of the claims register.
Certifications & adapters
14%
The remaining certifications and the second named market.
Named operators
31%
A counsel memo that can survive a later reader.

Operating week

What “in market” actually looks like.

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.
MonClaimsEvery public sentence checked against the register. Anything extra is unpublished.
SatDarkNo creators. No threads. Restricted geos stay dark.

The wedge

Why this one, not the other one.

They sell: Bank connector
Who pays: An AIFM whose auditor has seen the dual-record.
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: 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.

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 DvP
No token contract listed as a public sale
Pilot letters on file, identities redacted
Taipei 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.”

Product48
Customers62
Legal path62
Tech maturity51
Demand58
Market access44

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 Taipei story becomes a fact pattern. The restricted list exists for a reason: EU retail, United States.

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, Ivory Desk is in the e-money / deposit perimeter. That is a different company.

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

01Is the waitlist demand for a product, or a queue for a coin?
02What does renewal look like if no round ever happens?
03Which geography is actually locked, and which is a hope?
04Has counsel written the perimeter in a memo you can file?
05Which incumbent can copy this in a quarter, and what would they have to migrate?
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: Ivory Desk 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.

Taipeinamed
EU retailrestricted
United Statesrestricted

Team

Who runs it.

Nia KrügerChief executive
Sasha AdeyemiChief executive

Stack

Permissioned DvP
DvP rails
Approval trail
Disclosure templates

Named with them

Northbridge Counsel
Meridian Tax

Who can decide

Nia Krüger came in named. The team is not a handle. Ivory Desk Ltd exists, founded 2021, headquartered in Taipei. 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
Ivory Desk does not sell a token to the public on this pad	Posture lock	live
The product is dvp rails sold to institutions	Architecture + customer type	live
Permissioned DvP 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: Taipei	Named markets on the file	live

On the record

Day 0 lockKick-offSep
Claim inventoryPackSep
Audience matrix draftPackSep

Operating log

11 Sep 10:37
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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