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THIJ

In diligence

IN MOTIONSettlement

Thistle Kiln

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

They killed 13 public sentences before we listed them. Thin files do not get that far.

Thistle Kiln — A permissioned DvP rail: cash against asset between banks, FMIs or funds that already have accounts with each other. It is the moment of exchange, not a new listed asset.

In a 14-day diligence sprint (day 4). This is when the story, the customers and the legal path get written down — or the file stops.

Archive is free. Live access is timed. Thistle Kiln is timed.

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 settlement

Counsel hours

Not offering — locked

Sentences killed

Before listing

Claims live

4/7

Sprint

Our cut

Of any proceeds

Plate Lattice · 5896

THIJ

The plate

Lattice. Edition 5896.

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

THIJ · Melbourne · Settlement

Score

Desk diligence

Pilots

Named, redacted

Sprint

Day 4 of 14

Melbourne

Banks

Sells

Bank

Bank connector

Markets

Melbourne

Years

Founded 2024

Surfaces

Permissioned settlement

Complete

File readiness

The wedge

Bank connector

The wedge is T+1 and 24/7 FX: overnight risk became visible.

Why the desk took it

A real job, not a ticker.

Finality law was in the application.

Traction

One named pilot (redacted).

Founded 2024, headquartered in Melbourne. One named pilot on file (redacted in public). 7 nodes or connected surfaces reported. Desk diligence score 79/100. Sprint day 4 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

Two banks, live DvP, even a small notional.

A public L1 is a different threat model and a different statute. 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.

In Melbourne, the person who signs the monthly pack already has a vendor. Thistle Kiln 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.

Thistle Kiln exists because the incumbent brand will not staff the unglamorous middle of Settlement. 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 the founder

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

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 counsel

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

The window

Miss this and you read the archive.

If the window closes you still have the pack — as history. Not as a live conversation.

Restricted markets stay dark. Named markets are live. That discipline is the scarce thing.

If you are a founder who wants a pack like this: apply. If you are a buyer: call them — not us.

Window

Closed

Closed. History only — not a place to buy.

Sentences killed: 13
Counsel hours on file: 44
Asks / week: 17
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.
Siobhán Adeyemi, Chief executive

This company

Thistle Kiln

Twelve Settlement decks look the same. One of them has a Melbourne customer on the record.

In the same conversation

CLS
Fnality
RTGS upgrades
Not a public L1

The bet

Why this company exists.

The wedge is T+1 and 24/7 FX: overnight risk became visible.

T+1, 24/7 FX and on-chain funds make overnight risk visible. Banks will connect a rail before they will issue a coin.

Wholesale settlement is a volume business. Even a sliver of fails avoided is a number a treasurer recognises.

Versus the field

L2 wrappers are cheaper. They are also a different perimeter — and declined here. Thistle Kiln 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

01Two permissioned parties lock an agreed obligation
02Asset and cash move together, or not at all
03Existing accounts are the source of funds
04No public chain sale of the rail’s token
05A named counterparty verifies; Thistle Kiln does not attest to its own facts.

In the same conversation as

CLS
Fnality
RTGS upgrades
Not a public L1

If they raise

Where the money would actually go.

Not a token float. A budget against work. RCA Pad still takes 0% of proceeds.

Counsel & perimeter
36%
Hiring the operator who already does this job at a licensed firm.
Second market
22%
Keeping the public story from running ahead of the claims register.
Control environment
15%
A counsel memo that can survive a later reader.
Named operators
27%
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.
SatDarkNo creators. No threads. Restricted geos stay dark.
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.

The wedge

Why this one, not the other one.

They sell: Bank connector
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: Legal opinion on finality in the governing law.
Switching cost: Scheme maps, ISO, LMA language, registry adapters — eighteen months of unglamorous work.
Vs the comps: A public L1 is a different threat model and a different statute.
Why we listed it: Finality law was in the application.

Next twelve months

What has to be true.

Two banks, live DvP, even a small notional.

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 settlement
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.”

Product61
Customers40
Legal path62
Tech maturity57
Demand34
Market access44

Risks

What can kill it.

The one that actually kills it

A second geography without a lock

Extending the record into a market that is still restricted is how a clean Melbourne story becomes a fact pattern. The restricted list exists for a reason: Public residual claims, United States.

Money issuance

If the rail issues a settlement asset, it is in the e-money / deposit perimeter.

Legal finality

Atomic in software is not final in court. Ask which law says it is.

Incumbent RTGS

Central banks are not asleep. A feature can become a standard.

Public token

Listing the rail’s unit is a sale. This pad does not run that sale.

Money issuance

If the rail issues a settlement asset, Thistle Kiln is in the e-money / deposit perimeter. That is a different company.

Incumbent feature

The administrator, CCP, scheme or custodian can ship this as a checkbox. Thistle Kiln has to be cheaper or faster before that happens.

Ask these next

01Has counsel written the perimeter in a memo you can file?
02Which geography is actually locked, and which is a hope?
03If RCA Pad disappeared tomorrow, could the customer still run the job?
04Who is the first named paying customer — not a letter of intent?
05What does renewal look like if no round ever happens?
06Where do keys, title, or NAV liability sit — and is that person licensed?

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: Thistle Kiln 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
Public residual claimsrestricted
United Statesrestricted

Team

Who runs it.

Siobhán AdeyemiChief executive
Ines ParkFinance

Stack

Permissioned settlement
Settlement
Audit log
Takedown SLA

Named with them

Northbridge Counsel
Meridian Tax

Who can decide

Siobhán Adeyemi (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.

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

Claims with evidence

Statements with evidence.

Statement	Evidence	Status
Thistle Kiln does not sell a token to the public on this pad	Posture lock	live
The product is settlement sold to institutions	Architecture + customer type	live
Permissioned settlement 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 9:12
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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