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

LARC

In diligence

IN MOTIONPrivate credit tape

Larch Forge

Skip it and you read a PDF. Counterparties who matter will have already called.

Seats of attention are not infinite. 6 counterparties are in the live thread. You are not — yet.

Larch Forge — A system of record for private-credit funds and desks: tapes, RFQs, or covenants that update when a borrower files. The buyers already have a book. This is plumbing, not a venue that matches strangers.

In a 14-day diligence sprint (day 12). This is when the story, the customers and the legal path get written down — or the file stops.

Most Private credit tape applications this quarter were declined. You are looking at one that was not.

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

Credit book

Counsel hours

Not offering — locked

Sentences killed

Before listing

Claims live

5/7

Sprint

Our cut

Of any proceeds

Plate Signal · 6493

LARC

The plate

Signal. Edition 6493.

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

LARC · Paris · Private credit tape

Score

Desk diligence

Pilots

Named, redacted

Sprint

Day 12 of 14

Paris

Private-credit funds

Sells

Bps

Bps on facilities on the tape

Markets

France

Years

Founded 2024

Surfaces

Credit book

Complete

File readiness

The wedge

Bps on facilities on the tape

Larch Forge wants to be the record everyone already trusts, without becoming the venue.

Why the desk took it

A real job, not a ticker.

A redacted facility list landed in week one.

Traction

2 named pilots (redacted).

Founded 2024, headquartered in Paris. 2 named pilots on file (identities redacted in public). 4 nodes or connected surfaces reported. Desk diligence score 86/100. Sprint day 12 of 14. A qualified custodian reconciling against this book. A dual-control drill exists on paper. We have not watched it live yet — that is the next ask.

Next 12 months

Ten live facilities or this is still a lab.

Closed RFQ wires do this slowly. Larch Forge does it as a record. 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.

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.

Larch Forge exists because the incumbent brand will not staff the unglamorous middle of Private credit tape. The product is that middle. The token, if it ever exists, is not the product — and is not for sale here. The people in the queue already understood the difference.

A sentence went public and came down in under an hour. Kofi Diaz treated the kill as an operating skill, not a PR event. Files that cannot do this do not stay listed.

From the screen

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

From the pilot

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

From counsel

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.

The window

Miss this and you read the archive.

If the window closes you still have the pack — as history. Not as a live conversation.

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

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: 5
Counsel hours on file: 77
Asks / week: 36
Our cut: 0% of proceeds

Renewal is the round. If nobody renews, there is no company. A token would not fix that.
Kofi Diaz, Chief executive

This company

Larch Forge

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

In the same conversation

eFront
Allvue
Closed RFQ wires
Not an on-chain lending pool

The bet

Why this company exists.

Larch Forge wants to be the record everyone already trusts, without becoming the venue.

Allocators want daily marks and covenant visibility. Banks want to originate without building a chain team. The first honest tape that does not pretend to be an exchange will be paid for as software.

Private credit AUM is measured in trillions. The software take-rate is small. The switching cost, once a tape is the record, is not.

Versus the field

The incumbent brand sells the relationship. Larch Forge sells the job the brand will not staff. A protocol pitch is the thing this company has already refused. Open-source looks free until the auditor asks who attests.

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

01A loan or covenant event is written once
02Permissioned counterparties see what they are allowed to see
03Marks and RFQs stay inside named desks
04No public order book, no retail
05Default and amendment events are first-class, not a PDF in a side channel
06The legal source of truth stays with the incumbent register, admin, or custodian.

In the same conversation as

eFront
Allvue
Closed RFQ wires
Not an on-chain lending pool

If they raise

Where the money would actually go.

Not a token float. A budget against work. RCA Pad still takes 0% of proceeds.

Claims & campaign ops
40%
Adapter work against the incumbent register, admin, or custodian.
Certifications & adapters
23%
Dual-control drills, key ceremonies, and the person who owns them.
Second market
15%
Hiring the operator who already does this job at a licensed firm.
Counsel & perimeter
22%
Keeping the public story from running ahead of the claims register.

Operating week

What “in market” actually looks like.

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.
ThuCustomerNamed pilot (redacted) sees the same record the auditor saw.
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: Bps on facilities on the tape
Who pays: A qualified custodian reconciling against this book.
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: Covenant language mapped to the LMA set — not a custom dialect.
Switching cost: Once the record is the record, the incumbent copy has to migrate history. That is the year.
Vs the comps: Closed RFQ wires do this slowly. Larch Forge does it as a record.
Why we listed it: A redacted facility list landed in week one.

Next twelve months

What has to be true.

Ten live facilities or this is still a lab.

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

Growth money would extend the record to a second geography, still permissioned.

Traction

What you can verify today.

Operating notes for Credit book
No token contract listed as a public sale
Pilot letters on file, identities redacted
Paris 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.”

Product36
Customers62
Legal path62
Tech maturity48
Demand66
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.

Marketplace slip

The moment this looks like a public book, it is a venue. This pad will not list that.

Data rights

Who owns the tape when a fund leaves? If that is unsigned, the enterprise value is a conversation.

Credit cycle

A default cluster will test whether the product is a record or a reputation.

Retail

Retail is prohibited. Any ‘access token’ story is a different company.

Data rights on exit

If a fund leaves and the tape stays, who owns the history? Unsigned, the enterprise value is a conversation.

Facts vs theatre

A proof of a fake book is still a fake book. Larch Forge has to attach to the real one, in Paris.

Ask these next

01Which incumbent can copy this in a quarter, and what would they have to migrate?
02Is the waitlist demand for a product, or a queue for a coin?
03Has counsel written the perimeter in a memo you can file?
04If RCA Pad disappeared tomorrow, could the customer still run the job?
05Which geography is actually locked, and which is a hope?
06Who can unpublish a public sentence in 24 hours, by name?

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: Larch Forge SAS
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.

Francenamed
EEA professionalnamed
Global publicrestricted

Team

Who runs it.

Kofi DiazChief executive
Jonah NgChief compliance

Stack

Credit book
Private credit tape
Disclosure templates
Audit log

Named with them

Meridian Tax

Who can decide

Kofi Diaz (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.

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
Larch Forge does not sell a token to the public on this pad	Posture lock	live
The product is private credit tape sold to institutions	Architecture + customer type	live
Credit book 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: France, EEA professional	Named markets on the file	live

On the record

Day 0 lockKick-offSep
Claim inventoryPackSep
Audience matrix draftPackSep

Operating log

11 Sep 17:15
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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