The wedge
Bps of AUM on the books
Ivory Yard sells a 15-day lag down to a day, without turning the unit into a coin.
VELMVellum Protocol8,420 waitlistKITEKite Ledger2,190 waitlistPLSDPalisade ID1,640 waitlistNRTLNorthlineDay 8 of 14SABLSable RailDay 5 of 14QULLQuill MarketsDay 11 of 14CDWLCinder Well6,947 waitlistHRTNHartline8,787 waitlistOBSNObsidian Rail4,416 waitlistFENLFen Clearing1,060 waitlistLUMNLumen Books5,510 waitlistRDCTRedact ID6,485 waitlistHRBNHarbor NAV6,973 waitlistQLTDQuilt1,876 waitlistNMBMNimbus Match7,864 waitlistBRASBrass4,166 waitlistSLSTSolstice Credit9,342 waitlistWLTRWillow Transfer7,031 waitlistEMBREmber Registry2,487 waitlistNQAYNorth Quay2,013 waitlistKLNSKiln4,412 waitlistGLSHGlass HouseDay 8 of 14IRNPIron PierDay 1 of 14PLFRPale FireDay 3 of 14VELMVellum Protocol8,420 waitlistKITEKite Ledger2,190 waitlistPLSDPalisade ID1,640 waitlistNRTLNorthlineDay 8 of 14SABLSable RailDay 5 of 14QULLQuill MarketsDay 11 of 14CDWLCinder Well6,947 waitlistHRTNHartline8,787 waitlistOBSNObsidian Rail4,416 waitlistFENLFen Clearing1,060 waitlistLUMNLumen Books5,510 waitlistRDCTRedact ID6,485 waitlistHRBNHarbor NAV6,973 waitlistQLTDQuilt1,876 waitlistNMBMNimbus Match7,864 waitlistBRASBrass4,166 waitlistSLSTSolstice Credit9,342 waitlistWLTRWillow Transfer7,031 waitlistEMBREmber Registry2,487 waitlistNQAYNorth Quay2,013 waitlistKLNSKiln4,412 waitlistGLSHGlass HouseDay 8 of 14IRNPIron PierDay 1 of 14PLFRPale FireDay 3 of 14
Board
IVOG
Screened
SCREENEDNAV opsIvory Yard
Most of NAV ops died in the screen. Ivory Yard did not.
Heat 22. Window a fewd. If you are going to read one NAV ops company, this is the one.
Ivory Yard — An operational layer for funds: NAV events, share-class records, books an AIFM can defend. The administrator remains the administrator. This is co-sourced infrastructure, not a tokenised fund on a public board.
Screened, not yet in sprint. Treat every number as provisional. Calendar access is not automatic.
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.
Stage
upcoming
Window
Closed
Heat
0/99
Inbound / wk
0asks
Asking now
0live
Named pilots
0
Still a question
Live nodes
0
Internal NAV oracles
Counsel hours
0
Not offering — locked
Sentences killed
0
Before listing
Claims live
0/4
Sprint
Our cut
0%
Of any proceeds
Plate Orbit · 9158
IVOG
The plate
Orbit. Edition 9158.
A unique plate for Ivory Yard. Geometry, orbit, and edition belong to this company — no other listing on the board shares it.
IVOG · Cape Town · NAV ops
Score
0
Desk diligence
Pilots
0
None on file
Stage
upcoming
upcoming
HQ
Cape Town
Fund administrators
Sells
Bps
Bps of AUM on the books
Markets
0
Cape Town
Years
0
Founded 2024
Surfaces
0
Internal NAV oracles
Complete
0
File readiness
Why the desk took it
Early — still a question.
The admin of record is named, even if redacted here.
Traction
No paying pilot on the public file.
Founded 2024, headquartered in Cape Town. No named paying pilot on the file yet — that is the first question. Desk diligence score 57/100. A named Cape Town administrator who already signs the pack (redacted). A dual-control drill exists on paper. We have not watched it live yet — that is the next ask.
Next 12 months
No public ‘buy the token’ language anywhere they touch.
SS&C and Apex are the admin. This is the event layer they can defend. Per-event pricing so a pilot can start without a transformation programme.
The brief
How a serious reader should hold this.
You can wait for a sticker. The named customer did not. They are writing into this record while the rest of the market argues about a comment period.
The bet is narrow. A named Cape Town buyer already has budget for this invoice. Ivory Yard wins if it is cheaper than the internal build and cleaner than the protocol pitch. It loses if a founder later wants a public book. The window is the time you have to decide which it is.
A dual-control drill sits on paper. Keys, title, or NAV liability sit with a named licensed party — not Ivory Yard. The architecture says so. We have not watched the drill live. That is the next ask, not a slogan.
From the pilot
Fixed fee. Deposit to start. 0% of proceeds. Token-only pay is declined. Percentage of raise is declined.
From the screen
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 ops
US persons are outside the audience. A form that asks “are you accredited?” without verification is not an exemption.
The window
Miss this and you read the archive.
The incumbent will still be slow in a year. The window will not.
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
- 3
- Counsel hours on file
- 4
- Asks / week
- 5
- Our cut
- 0% of proceeds
Renewal is the round. If nobody renews, there is no company. A token would not fix that.
This company
Ivory Yard
A L2 wrapper is cheaper. It is also a different perimeter — and declined here.
In the same conversation
- SS&C
- Apex
- Citi TA
- Not a public tokenised fund
The bet
Why this company exists.
Ivory Yard sells a 15-day lag down to a day, without turning the unit into a coin.
Ivory Yard sells a 15-day lag down to a day, without turning the unit into a coin.
Allocators want faster marks. Administrators cannot staff that with people. A dual-record (their books + this event) is how they sleep.
Fund administration is a fee business measured in basis points of AUM. A faster close is retained business.
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
- 01Administrator remains source of truth
- 02Events (NAV, subscription, share-class) are signed and timestamped
- 03Investors and auditors query what they are allowed to see
- 04The fund unit is not listed here as a token you can buy
- 05Investors and auditors query only what they are allowed to see
- 06Kill of a public sentence is an hour, not a committee.
In the same conversation as
- SS&C
- Apex
- Citi TA
- Not a public tokenised fund
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
30%
Hiring the operator who already does this job at a licensed firm.
Certifications & adapters
22%
Keeping the public story from running ahead of the claims register.
Counsel & perimeter
21%
Adapter work against the incumbent register, admin, or custodian.
Named operators
27%
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.
- ThuCustomerNamed pilot (redacted) sees the same record the auditor saw.
- SatDarkNo creators. No threads. Restricted geos stay dark.
- 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
- Bps of AUM on the books
- Who pays
- A named Cape Town administrator who already signs the pack (redacted).
- Unit economics
- Per-event pricing so a pilot can start without a transformation programme.
- Moat on file
- Named administrator on the engagement letter.
- Switching cost
- Scheme maps, ISO, LMA language, registry adapters — eighteen months of unglamorous work.
- Vs the comps
- SS&C and Apex are the admin. This is the event layer they can defend.
- Why we listed it
- The admin of record is named, even if redacted here.
Next twelve months
What has to be true.
No public ‘buy the token’ language anywhere they touch.
A dual-control drill exists on paper. We have not watched it live yet — that is the next ask.
A round, if any, sits with their providers. This pad does not take the order.
Traction
What you can verify today.
Founded 2024, headquartered in Cape Town. No named paying pilot on the file yet — that is the first question. Desk diligence score 57/100. A named Cape Town administrator who already signs the pack (redacted). A dual-control drill exists on paper. We have not watched it live yet — that is the next ask.
- Architecture paper — no production customer on the public file
- No token contract listed as a public sale
- Pilot letters on file, identities redacted
- Cape Town 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.”
- Product20
- Customers18
- Legal path62
- Tech maturity28
- Demand10
- Market access44
Risks
What can kill it.
The one that actually kills it
The founder wants a public book
The moment Ivory Yard asks this pad to allocate, sell, or complete funding, the listing ends. That is not a moral project. It is how a services firm stays a services firm.
Unit token
A share-class token sold to the public is a securities offering. This pad will not run that as a sale.
Admin of record
If the admin has not signed, this is a shadow book. Shadow books do not survive an audit.
NAV liability
Who is wrong when the number is wrong? That sentence has to exist.
Distribution
Using this layer as a public subscription journey is a different file — and usually the wrong house.
Shadow book
If the administrator has not signed, Ivory Yard is a copy of a spreadsheet. Copies do not survive the audit.
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
- 01Which incumbent can copy this in a quarter, and what would they have to migrate?
- 02What does renewal look like if no round ever happens?
- 03What happens if a founder later wants a public token?
- 04Who can unpublish a public sentence in 24 hours, by name?
- 05If RCA Pad disappeared tomorrow, could the customer still run the job?
- 06Is the waitlist demand for a product, or a queue for a coin?
Structure
How money would actually move.
Too early to talk about a round on this pad. Screen first. A path has to be named by counsel before anyone should wire.
- Entity
- Ivory Yard 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.
- Cape Townnamed
- Public residual claimsrestricted
- United Statesrestricted
Team
Who runs it.
- Leila BergChief executive
Stack
- Internal NAV oracles
- NAV ops
- Approval trail
Named with them
- Helix Audit
Who can decide
Leila Berg (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, Ivory Yard is a services firm with a slide. The twelve-month test is renewal, not waitlist.
Claims with evidence
Statements with evidence.
| Statement | Evidence | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Ivory Yard does not sell a token to the public on this pad | Posture lock | live |
| The product is nav ops sold to institutions | Architecture + customer type | draft |
| Internal NAV oracles is the method — not a listed asset | Paper only | draft |
| 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: Cape Town | Named markets on the file | draft |
On the record
- Application APP-4281ScreenSep
- Counsel questionPathSep
Operating log
03 Sep 10:00
Application scored. Ivory Yard is not a calendar slot.
10 Sep 10:12
Counsel question sent. Name a path or lock not-offering.
Path to now
Now
Screen
Calendar is never automatic.
Next
Counsel or close
A named path, or a locked not-offering.
Not a subscription
This is not a sale page.
Too early to talk about a round on this pad. Screen first. A path has to be named by counsel before anyone should wire. Founders who want a pack like this one apply. Readers who want the company talk to the company — not to this pad.
Other companies
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