The wedge
Per bordereau cycle
Larch Pike is replacing the PDF slip, not the carrier.
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
LARN
Screened
SCREENEDInsurance bindersLarch Pike
a few days until this conversation is history.
Hiro Shah will not run a public sale on this pad. The listing exists because of that sentence.
Larch Pike — 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.
Screened, not yet in sprint. Treat every number as provisional. Calendar access is not automatic.
Closed stamp is coming. a few days is the number. There is not a second number.
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
Redacted on the public page
Live nodes
0
Binder ledger
Counsel hours
0
Not offering — locked
Sentences killed
0
Before listing
Claims live
0/5
Sprint
Our cut
0%
Of any proceeds
Plate Horizon · 7986
LARN
The plate
Horizon. Edition 7986.
A unique plate for Larch Pike. Geometry, orbit, and edition belong to this company — no other listing on the board shares it.
LARN · Vienna · Insurance binders
Score
0
Desk diligence
Pilots
0
Named, redacted
Stage
upcoming
upcoming
HQ
Vienna
Licensed venues
Sells
Per
Per bordereau cycle
Markets
0
Vienna
Years
0
Founded 2026
Surfaces
0
Binder ledger
Complete
0
File readiness
Why the desk took it
Early — still a question.
No policy-as-token in the revenue model.
Traction
One named pilot (redacted).
Founded 2026, headquartered in Vienna. One named pilot on file (redacted in public). 1 nodes or connected surfaces reported. Desk diligence score 64/100. A national registry counterpart, not a scrape. No public APY, no public book, no ‘how to buy’ on any surface we could find.
Next 12 months
One live binder a carrier will show their auditor.
An insurance DAO is not this file. Annual software against an ops cost the board can see. Switching cost is the record, not the brand.
The brief
How a serious reader should hold this.
Someone in Vienna already renewed a slower vendor this year. Larch Pike is the conversation that happens before they do it again. Miss this cycle and you explain the next one.
If you leave this page without opening the claims table, you have read marketing. The scarce version of Larch Pike is the version that survives counsel. It is on a clock.
On a Tuesday in Vienna, an exception posts back into the customer’s existing case system. Nobody opens a side spreadsheet. That is the product: the night someone in ops does not stay late.
From the founder
The legal source of truth stays with the incumbent register, admin, or custodian. Larch Pike does not attest to its own facts.
From the pilot
Fixed fee. Deposit to start. 0% of proceeds. Token-only pay is declined. Percentage of raise is declined.
From the screen
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 next Insurance binders company on this board will not have this waitlist, this HQ, or this counsel posture.
0% of proceeds. Fixed fee. The incentive is a clean campaign — not a raise.
We do not allocate. We do not take a cut. We will not hold the window open for you.
Window
Closed
Closed. History only — not a place to buy.
- Sentences killed
- 7
- Counsel hours on file
- 9
- Asks / week
- 12
- Our cut
- 0% of proceeds
Do not put a participate button on our page. If you do, we leave.
This company
Larch Pike
A L2 wrapper is cheaper. It is also a different perimeter — and declined here.
In the same conversation
- LCH / Eurex (incumbent CCPs)
- Caldastone-style utilities
- Not a DeFi clearinghouse
The bet
Why this company exists.
Larch Pike is replacing the PDF slip, not the carrier.
Larch Pike is replacing the PDF slip, not the carrier.
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. Larch Pike is priced as software against an invoice that already exists.
Vienna 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
- 05Claim and premium events update the same slip the markets already signed
- 06Exceptions post back into the customer’s existing case system — no side spreadsheet.
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.
Claims & campaign ops
33%
Keeping the public story from running ahead of the claims register.
Counsel & perimeter
21%
Dual-control drills, key ceremonies, and the person who owns them.
Control environment
14%
The remaining certifications and the second named market.
Named operators
32%
A counsel memo that can survive a later reader.
Operating week
What “in market” actually looks like.
- SunOwnersWho can decide messaging and budget on a recorded line. If the answer is nobody, stop.
- ThuCustomerNamed pilot (redacted) sees the same record the auditor saw.
- WedCounselPerimeter diffs. If the site drifted from the memo, the site moves — not the memo.
- SatDarkNo creators. No threads. Restricted geos stay dark.
The wedge
Why this one, not the other one.
- They sell
- Per bordereau cycle
- Who pays
- A national registry counterpart, not a scrape.
- Unit economics
- Annual software against an ops cost the board can see. Switching cost is the record, not the brand.
- Moat on file
- Lloyd’s-adjacent process knowledge — not a generic ledger.
- Switching cost
- Scheme maps, ISO, LMA language, registry adapters — eighteen months of unglamorous work.
- Vs the comps
- An insurance DAO is not this file.
- Why we listed it
- No policy-as-token in the revenue model.
Next twelve months
What has to be true.
One live binder a carrier will show their auditor.
No public APY, no public book, no ‘how to buy’ on any surface we could find.
They have not asked us to run a sale. That ask would close the file.
Traction
What you can verify today.
Founded 2026, headquartered in Vienna. One named pilot on file (redacted in public). 1 nodes or connected surfaces reported. Desk diligence score 64/100. A national registry counterpart, not a scrape. No public APY, no public book, no ‘how to buy’ on any surface we could find.
- Architecture paper — no production customer on the public file
- No token contract listed as a public sale
- Pilot letters on file, identities redacted
- Vienna 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.”
- Product29
- Customers40
- Legal path62
- Tech maturity31
- Demand10
- Market access44
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.
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.
Not a carrier
If Larch Pike looks like it is taking risk, it needs a licence. The file says it does not. Keep it that way.
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?
- 02If RCA Pad disappeared tomorrow, could the customer still run the job?
- 03Which geography is actually locked, and which is a hope?
- 04What does renewal look like if no round ever happens?
- 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.
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
- Larch Pike 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.
- Viennanamed
- United States retailrestricted
- United Statesrestricted
Team
Who runs it.
- Hiro ShahChief executive
- Zara ParkChief compliance
Stack
- Binder ledger
- Insurance binders
- Disclosure templates
- Approval trail
Named with them
- Meridian Tax
Who can decide
Hiro Shah came in named. The team is not a handle. Larch Pike Ltd exists, founded 2026, headquartered in Vienna. Anonymity would have been an automatic decline.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Larch Pike does not sell a token to the public on this pad | Posture lock | live |
| The product is insurance binders sold to institutions | Architecture + customer type | draft |
| Binder ledger 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 | No board minute | draft |
| No public token is sold on this pad | Engagement terms + posture lock | live |
| Customers contemplated: Vienna | Named markets on the file | draft |
On the record
- Application APP-4143ScreenSep
- Counsel questionPathSep
Operating log
04 Sep 18:00
Application scored. Larch Pike 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.
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