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THNI

In diligence

IN MOTIONSelective disclosure

Thin Ice

Budget exists on a board line. This is this quarter, not ‘when the rule opens’.

A named Helsinki customer is already on the record. The public still thinks this is a deck.

Thin Ice — An attestation graph: a fund or investor proves one fact (accredited, name, share-class) to a transfer agent or administrator without handing over the whole file. Selective disclosure is the product.

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.

4 live counterparties in the thread. The public page is the overflow.

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

Attestation graph

Counsel hours

Not offering — locked

Sentences killed

Before listing

Claims live

5/6

Sprint

Our cut

Of any proceeds

Plate Signal · 7958

THNI

The plate

Signal. Edition 7958.

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

THNI · Helsinki · Selective disclosure

Score

Desk diligence

Pilots

Named, redacted

Sprint

Day 12 of 14

Helsinki

Fund administrators

Sells

Per-onboarding

Per-onboarding event

Markets

Helsinki

Years

Founded 2021

Surfaces

Attestation graph

Complete

File readiness

The wedge

Per-onboarding event

The wedge is repeating KYC at every gate of the same allocator.

Why the desk took it

A real job, not a ticker.

They named the attester. Most decks do not.

Traction

2 named pilots (redacted).

Founded 2021, headquartered in Helsinki. 2 named pilots on file (identities redacted in public). 6 nodes or connected surfaces reported. Desk diligence score 77/100. Sprint day 12 of 14. An AIFM whose auditor has seen the dual-record. A dual-control drill exists on paper. We have not watched it live yet — that is the next ask.

Next 12 months

One TA consuming revoke in production.

Jumio does not speak share-class. Seat plus event. If they ever attach a token as the unit of account, the file stops.

The brief

How a serious reader should hold this.

The decline pile in Selective disclosure is not a rumour. It is how this board stays readable. Thin Ice is what survived. That is the sell.

The bet is narrow. A named Helsinki buyer already has budget for this invoice. Thin Ice wins if it is cheaper than the internal build and cleaner than the protocol pitch. It loses if a founder later wants a public book. The window is the time you have to decide which it is.

A dual-control drill sits on paper. Keys, title, or NAV liability sit with a named licensed party — not Thin Ice. The architecture says so. We have not watched the drill live. That is the next ask, not a slogan.

From ops

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

From the pilot

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

From the screen

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.

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

Budget exists on a line the board can see. That is why the window is this quarter.

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: 11
Counsel hours on file: 35
Asks / week: 36
Our cut: 0% of proceeds

We would rather be archive-clean than live-loud. The waitlist showed up anyway.
Noam Novak, Chief executive

This company

Thin Ice

A L2 wrapper is cheaper. It is also a different perimeter — and declined here.

In the same conversation

Onfido / Jumio for people
Fund-admin KYC teams
W3C attestations
Not a ‘passport token’

The bet

Why this company exists.

The wedge is repeating KYC at every gate of the same allocator.

Transfer agents and AIFMs are being asked for faster onboarding without becoming identity companies. Attestations they can revoke are the compromise.

Fund onboarding cost is a known line item. A 20–40% cut in cycle time is a budget, not a vision deck.

Versus the field

The incumbent brand sells the relationship. Thin Ice 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.

Named: Helsinki. Off-limits: EU retail. A US person hearing an offering communication is a US problem even if the company sits in Helsinki. Blocking an IP and taking a US Telegram admin is not a block.

How it works

01A fact is attested by a party the recipient already trusts
02The holder discloses only the field requested
03The rest of the file stays dark
04Revocation is a first-class event
05The recipient never sees the rest of the file — selective disclosure is enforced, not promised
06The legal source of truth stays with the incumbent register, admin, or custodian.

In the same conversation as

Onfido / Jumio for people
Fund-admin KYC teams
W3C attestations
Not a ‘passport token’

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
39%
A counsel memo that can survive a later reader.
Control environment
19%
Adapter work against the incumbent register, admin, or custodian.
Certifications & adapters
14%
The remaining certifications and the second named market.
Counsel & perimeter
28%
Keeping the public story from running ahead of the claims register.

Operating week

What “in market” actually looks like.

SatDarkNo creators. No threads. Restricted geos stay dark.
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.
TueExceptionsOvernight breaks post back into the customer’s case system. No side book.

The wedge

Why this one, not the other one.

They sell: Per-onboarding event
Who pays: An AIFM whose auditor has seen the dual-record.
Unit economics: Seat plus event. If they ever attach a token as the unit of account, the file stops.
Moat on file: A transfer agent has agreed to consume the attestation in production.
Switching cost: Network effects only if a second named counterparty writes. One customer is a service firm.
Vs the comps: Jumio does not speak share-class.
Why we listed it: They named the attester. Most decks do not.

Next twelve months

What has to be true.

One TA consuming revoke in production.

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

A round, if any, sits with their providers. This pad does not take the order.

Traction

What you can verify today.

Operating notes for Attestation graph
No token contract listed as a public sale
Pilot letters on file, identities redacted
Helsinki 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.”

Product54
Customers62
Legal path62
Tech maturity54
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.

Who attests

If the attester is the company itself, this is a database with extra steps.

Portability theatre

A graph nobody else reads is a PDF with a hash.

US

US retail identity products are a different statute. Many of these files keep the US off.

Utility token

Paying for attestations in a native token is usually a securities problem in costume.

Self-attestation

If Thin Ice is the attester, this is a database with extra steps. The graph only matters if someone else signs.

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

01Where do keys, title, or NAV liability sit — and is that person licensed?
02Which incumbent can copy this in a quarter, and what would they have to migrate?
03Has counsel written the perimeter in a memo you can file?
04What does renewal look like if no round ever happens?
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: Thin Ice 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.

Helsinkinamed
EU retailrestricted

Team

Who runs it.

Noam NovakChief executive
Hiro KrügerFinance

Stack

Attestation graph
Selective disclosure
Takedown SLA
Audit log

Named with them

Northbridge Counsel
Clearline
Meridian Tax

Who can decide

The technical founder is on the record as Finance. Contractors in undisclosed jurisdictions are written down as a fact, not hidden. Facts can be managed. Hiding them is how companies die in diligence.

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
Thin Ice does not sell a token to the public on this pad	Posture lock	live
The product is selective disclosure sold to institutions	Architecture + customer type	live
Attestation graph 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: Helsinki	Named markets on the file	live

On the record

Day 0 lockKick-offSep
Claim inventoryPackSep
Audience matrix draftPackSep

Operating log

11 Sep 16:23
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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