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

SEDZ

In diligence

IN MOTIONClearing

Sedge North

Pilots named (redacted). Waitlist not. a short list names. Your move.

Sedge North survived the screen. Most of Clearing did not. That is not a slogan. It is the decline pile.

Sedge North — 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 12). This is when the story, the customers and the legal path get written down — or the file stops.

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.

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

4/6

Sprint

Our cut

Of any proceeds

Plate Signal · 5738

SEDZ

The plate

Signal. Edition 5738.

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

SEDZ · Edinburgh · Clearing

Score

Desk diligence

Pilots

Named, redacted

Sprint

Day 12 of 14

Edinburgh

Licensed venues

Sells

Per-netted

Per-netted notional

Markets

Edinburgh

Years

Founded 2025

Surfaces

Permissioned netting

Complete

File readiness

The wedge

Per-netted notional

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.

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

Traction

2 named pilots (redacted).

Founded 2025, headquartered in Edinburgh. 2 named pilots on file (identities redacted in public). 8 nodes or connected surfaces reported. Desk diligence score 77/100. Sprint day 12 of 14. A warehouse or port that has written a live event. A dual-control drill exists on paper. We have not watched it live yet — that is the next ask.

Next 12 months

Two members netting live, or stop.

Calastone-style utilities move funds. This moves risk. They win if they are cheaper than the internal build, not cheaper than a protocol.

The brief

How a serious reader should hold this.

The decline pile in Clearing is not a rumour. It is how this board stays readable. Sedge North is what survived. That is the sell.

Read this as an operating company, not a round. Counsel has a posture: Not offering — locked. Restricted markets stay dark. RCA Pad takes 0% if they ever raise. That combination is why inbound did not need a ticker.

On a Tuesday in Edinburgh, 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 ops

A dual-control drill exists on paper. Production evidence is the next artefact, not a tweet.

From counsel

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

From the pilot

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.

The next Clearing company on this board will not have this waitlist, this HQ, or this counsel posture.

Certification is in motion. After it lands, the price of the seat is not the question — access is.

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: 16
Counsel hours on file: 36
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.
Yara Khan, Chief executive

This company

Sedge North

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. Sedge North is priced as software against an invoice that already exists.

Edinburgh 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
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
38%
Adapter work against the incumbent register, admin, or custodian.
Second market
20%
Hiring the operator who already does this job at a licensed firm.
Certifications & adapters
15%
Dual-control drills, key ceremonies, and the person who owns them.
Counsel & perimeter
27%
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.
TueExceptionsOvernight breaks post back into the customer’s case system. No side book.
SatDarkNo creators. No threads. Restricted geos stay dark.
ThuCustomerNamed pilot (redacted) sees the same record the auditor saw.

The wedge

Why this one, not the other one.

They sell: Per-netted notional
Who pays: A warehouse or port that has written a live event.
Unit economics: They win if they are cheaper than the internal build, not cheaper than a protocol.
Moat on file: Named venue LOIs — redacted, but they exist.
Switching cost: Permissioned connectivity is the moat. Public endpoints would erase it.
Vs the comps: Calastone-style utilities move funds. This moves risk.
Why we listed it: Collateral-as-token was an exclusion in the application. We kept it.

Next twelve months

What has to be true.

Two members netting live, or stop.

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

They have not asked us to run a sale. That ask would close the file.

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
Edinburgh 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.”

Product72
Customers62
Legal path62
Tech maturity60
Demand66
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. Sedge North 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

01Who can unpublish a public sentence in 24 hours, by name?
02Has counsel written the perimeter in a memo you can file?
03Is the waitlist demand for a product, or a queue for a coin?
04What happens if a founder later wants a public token?
05Who is the first named paying customer — not a letter of intent?
06If RCA Pad disappeared tomorrow, could the customer still run the job?

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: Sedge North 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.

Edinburghnamed
Global publicrestricted
United Statesrestricted

Team

Who runs it.

Yara KhanChief executive
Devon OkaforFinance

Stack

Permissioned netting
Clearing
Approval trail
Disclosure templates

Named with them

Northbridge Counsel

Who can decide

Yara Khan came in named. The team is not a handle. Sedge North Ltd exists, founded 2025, headquartered in Edinburgh. Anonymity would have been an automatic decline.

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

Claims with evidence

Statements with evidence.

Statement	Evidence	Status
Sedge North 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	Desk file	draft
No public token is sold on this pad	Engagement terms + posture lock	live
Customers contemplated: Edinburgh	Named markets on the file	live

On the record

Day 0 lockKick-offSep
Claim inventoryPackSep
Audience matrix draftPackSep

Operating log

11 Sep 16:27
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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