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

MAPC

In diligence

IN MOTIONClearing

Maple Desk

Window a fewd · waitlist a short list · our cut 0%. Do the maths.

Seats of attention are not infinite. 8 counterparties are in the live thread. You are not — yet.

Maple Desk — 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.

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.

The named customer already picked. The waitlist is everyone who was late to that fact.

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 netting

Counsel hours

Not offering — locked

Sentences killed

Before listing

Claims live

4/8

Sprint

Our cut

Of any proceeds

Plate Orbit · 3426

MAPC

The plate

Orbit. Edition 3426.

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

MAPC · Melbourne · Clearing

Score

Desk diligence

Pilots

Named, redacted

Sprint

Day 6 of 14

Melbourne

Licensed venues

Sells

Member

Member seat

Markets

Melbourne

Years

Founded 2025

Surfaces

Permissioned netting

Complete

File readiness

The wedge

Member seat

They will not tokenise margin. That sentence is why they are on this board.

Why the desk took it

A real job, not a ticker.

A broker named a fail-cost number. That is a budget.

Traction

One named pilot (redacted).

Founded 2025, headquartered in Melbourne. One named pilot on file (redacted in public). 9 nodes or connected surfaces reported. Desk diligence score 88/100. Sprint day 6 of 14. An AIFM whose auditor has seen the dual-record. A redacted engagement letter landed in week one. That is why the desk took the meeting.

Next 12 months

Legal memo: are we a CCP? One page, named firm.

A DeFi clearinghouse is a different, usually unlicensed, business. They win if they are cheaper than the internal build, not cheaper than a protocol.

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.

Maple Desk exists because the incumbent brand will not staff the unglamorous middle of Clearing. 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.

The auditor of a redacted pilot has seen a dual-record. Switching away now means a new auditor conversation. That is the switching cost — not the logo.

From ops

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

From counsel

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

From the founder

The legal source of truth stays with the incumbent register, admin, or custodian. Maple Desk does not attest to its own facts.

The window

Miss this and you read the archive.

The decline pile in Clearing is full of companies that looked the same on slide one. This one is listed.

a short list people did not join a waitlist for a ticker. They joined for a job.

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

Window

Closed

Closed. History only — not a place to buy.

Sentences killed: 17
Counsel hours on file: 88
Asks / week: 21
Our cut: 0% of proceeds

The waitlist is people who want the product. If they wanted a coin they would be on a different pad.
Sasha Park, Chief executive

This company

Maple Desk

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

In the same conversation

LCH / Eurex (incumbent CCPs)
Caldastone-style utilities
Not a DeFi clearinghouse

The bet

Why this company exists.

They will not tokenise margin. That sentence is why they are on this board.

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. Maple Desk is priced as software against an invoice that already exists.

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

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
05Only the residual hits the existing settlement rail — gross never leaves the venue
06The legal source of truth stays with the incumbent register, admin, or custodian.

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.

Control environment
36%
Hiring the operator who already does this job at a licensed firm.
Claims & campaign ops
23%
A counsel memo that can survive a later reader.
Second market
19%
Dual-control drills, key ceremonies, and the person who owns them.
Counsel & perimeter
22%
Adapter work against the incumbent register, admin, or custodian.

Operating week

What “in market” actually looks like.

TueExceptionsOvernight breaks post back into the customer’s case system. No side book.
WedCounselPerimeter diffs. If the site drifted from the memo, the site moves — not the memo.
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: Member seat
Who pays: An AIFM whose auditor has seen the dual-record.
Unit economics: They win if they are cheaper than the internal build, not cheaper than a protocol.
Moat on file: Members already post positions to the incumbent CCP; this sits beside it.
Switching cost: Permissioned connectivity is the moat. Public endpoints would erase it.
Vs the comps: A DeFi clearinghouse is a different, usually unlicensed, business.
Why we listed it: A broker named a fail-cost number. That is a budget.

Next twelve months

What has to be true.

Legal memo: are we a CCP? One page, named firm.

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

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

Traction

What you can verify today.

Operating notes for Permissioned netting
No token contract listed as a public sale
Pilot letters on file, identities redacted
Melbourne 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.”

Product76
Customers40
Legal path62
Tech maturity63
Demand42
Market access44

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.

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.

CCP copy

The incumbent can ship the same netting as a feature. Maple Desk has to be cheaper or faster before that happens.

Single-customer gravity

If the first named buyer is also the only buyer, Maple Desk is a services shop with a ledger. Ask for the second.

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?
03Which incumbent can copy this in a quarter, and what would they have to migrate?
04Is the waitlist demand for a product, or a queue for a coin?
05Which geography is actually locked, and which is a hope?
06Who is the first named paying customer — not a letter of intent?

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: Maple 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.

Melbournenamed
Mainland China retailrestricted
United Statesrestricted

Team

Who runs it.

Sasha ParkChief executive

Stack

Permissioned netting
Clearing
Disclosure templates

Named with them

Helix Audit
Meridian Tax

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.

If the first customer renews, the adapter work pays for itself. If they do not, Maple Desk is a services firm with a slide. The twelve-month test is renewal, not waitlist.

Claims with evidence

Statements with evidence.

Statement	Evidence	Status
Maple Desk does not sell a token to the public on this pad	Posture lock	live
The product is clearing sold to institutions	Architecture + customer type	live
Permissioned netting 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: Melbourne	Named markets on the file	live

On the record

Day 0 lockKick-offSep
Claim inventoryPackSep
Audience matrix draftPackSep

Operating log

11 Sep 14:49
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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