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

QUIC

In diligence

IN MOTIONClearing

Quince Desk

They killed 8 sentences to get listed. That is the product you are about to miss.

Inbound this week: 28. That is demand for a job someone already pays for — not a book.

Quince 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 9). 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

3/10

Sprint

Our cut

Of any proceeds

Plate Ledger · 3162

QUIC

The plate

Ledger. Edition 3162.

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

QUIC · Mexico City · Clearing

Score

Desk diligence

Pilots

Named, redacted

Sprint

Day 9 of 14

Mexico City

Licensed venues

Sells

Venue

Venue licence add-on

Markets

Mexico City

Years

Founded 2025

Surfaces

Permissioned netting

Complete

File readiness

The wedge

Venue licence add-on

Quince Desk is selling a 10% cut in fails, not a new licence.

Why the desk took it

A real job, not a ticker.

Collateral-as-token was an exclusion in the application. We kept it.

Traction

2 named pilots (redacted).

Founded 2025, headquartered in Mexico City. 2 named pilots on file (identities redacted in public). 5 nodes or connected surfaces reported. Desk diligence score 74/100. Sprint day 9 of 14. A named Mexico City administrator who already signs the pack (redacted). No public APY, no public book, no ‘how to buy’ on any surface we could find.

Next 12 months

A default drill with a number, not a narrative.

A DeFi clearinghouse is a different, usually unlicensed, business. 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.

In Mexico City, the person who signs the monthly pack already has a vendor. Quince Desk is not asking them to believe in a token. It is asking them to move one job — the one that currently lives in a spreadsheet, a fax, or a person who is about to retire — onto a record that can be shown to counsel. The queue to read that record is already not empty.

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.

On a Tuesday in Mexico City, 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 pilot

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.

From counsel

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

The window

Miss this and you read the archive.

A later reader gets the same PDF. They do not get the same access.

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

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

Window

Closed

Closed. History only — not a place to buy.

Sentences killed: 8
Counsel hours on file: 18
Asks / week: 28
Our cut: 0% of proceeds

Our TAM is an invoice the customer already pays. A coin would not make it larger. It would make the licence harder.
Mei Reilly, Chief executive

This company

Quince Desk

Twelve Clearing decks look the same. One of them has a Mexico City customer on the record.

In the same conversation

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

The bet

Why this company exists.

Quince Desk is selling a 10% cut in fails, not a new licence.

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

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.

Mexico City 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
05Only the residual hits the existing settlement rail — gross never leaves the venue
06A named counterparty verifies; Quince Desk does not attest to its own facts.

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.

Named operators
33%
Adapter work against the incumbent register, admin, or custodian.
Counsel & perimeter
20%
Dual-control drills, key ceremonies, and the person who owns them.
Certifications & adapters
21%
Keeping the public story from running ahead of the claims register.
Claims & campaign ops
26%
Hiring the operator who already does this job at a licensed firm.

Operating week

What “in market” actually looks like.

WedCounselPerimeter diffs. If the site drifted from the memo, the site moves — not the memo.
SatDarkNo creators. No threads. Restricted geos stay dark.
MonClaimsEvery public sentence checked against the register. Anything extra is unpublished.
FriKill switchRehearse unpublish in 24 hours. If it takes a committee, it is not a switch.

The wedge

Why this one, not the other one.

They sell: Venue licence add-on
Who pays: A named Mexico City administrator who already signs the pack (redacted).
Unit economics: Annual software against an ops cost the board can see. Switching cost is the record, not the brand.
Moat on file: Named venue LOIs — redacted, but they exist.
Switching cost: Network effects only if a second named counterparty writes. One customer is a service firm.
Vs the comps: A DeFi clearinghouse is a different, usually unlicensed, business.
Why we listed it: Collateral-as-token was an exclusion in the application. We kept it.

Next twelve months

What has to be true.

A default drill with a number, not a narrative.

No public APY, no public book, no ‘how to buy’ on any surface we could find.

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
Named founder; customer still a conversation
Mexico City 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.”

Product45
Customers62
Legal path62
Tech maturity51
Demand54
Market access68

Risks

What can kill it.

The one that actually kills it

Counsel is a slide

Unnamed counsel is how companies die in diligence. Not offering — locked has to be a memo you can file, not a slogan on the hero.

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. Quince Desk has to be cheaper or faster before that happens.

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

01What happens if a founder later wants a public token?
02Who is the first named paying customer — not a letter of intent?
03If RCA Pad disappeared tomorrow, could the customer still run the job?
04Is the waitlist demand for a product, or a queue for a coin?
05What does renewal look like if no round ever happens?
06Has counsel written the perimeter in a memo you can file?

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: Quince 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.

Mexico Citynamed
United Kingdomnamed
Global publicrestricted
United Statesrestricted

Team

Who runs it.

Mei ReillyChief executive
Ines VossChief executive

Stack

Permissioned netting
Clearing
Approval trail

Named with them

Helix Audit

Who can decide

Mei Reilly (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.

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
Quince 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: Mexico City, United Kingdom	Named markets on the file	live

On the record

Day 0 lockKick-offSep
Claim inventoryPackSep
Audience matrix draftPackSep

Operating log

11 Sep 9:38
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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