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

VETP

In diligence

IN MOTIONClearing

Vetch Mere

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

Marcus Park will not run a public sale on this pad. The listing exists because of that sentence.

Vetch Mere — 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 7). This is when the story, the customers and the legal path get written down — or the file stops.

A year from now this will be an obvious company or a missed one. The window decides which.

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

4/9

Sprint

Our cut

Of any proceeds

Plate Ledger · 5996

VETP

The plate

Ledger. Edition 5996.

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

VETP · Johannesburg · Clearing

Score

Desk diligence

Pilots

Named, redacted

Sprint

Day 7 of 14

Johannesburg

Licensed venues

Sells

Venue

Venue licence add-on

Markets

Johannesburg

Years

Founded 2023

Surfaces

Permissioned netting

Complete

File readiness

The wedge

Venue licence add-on

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 2023, headquartered in Johannesburg. 2 named pilots on file (identities redacted in public). 9 nodes or connected surfaces reported. Desk diligence score 88/100. Sprint day 7 of 14. A treasurer at a bank that already settles — not a crypto-native desk. 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.

Calastone-style utilities move funds. This moves risk. 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.

Johannesburg is not a backdrop. It is the jurisdiction where a named customer can be sued, called, and asked a question on a recorded line. Vetch Mere chose it for that reason. Counterparties who still think this is a ‘global’ story are already late.

The bet is narrow. A named Johannesburg buyer already has budget for this invoice. Vetch Mere 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 Vetch Mere. The architecture says so. We have not watched the drill live. That is the next ask, not a slogan.

From counsel

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

From ops

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

From the founder

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.

Waiting for a proposed US rule is how you miss a Johannesburg buyer who already has budget.

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

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: 18
Counsel hours on file: 88
Asks / week: 24
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.
Marcus Park, Chief executive

This company

Vetch Mere

Not the incumbent brand. Vetch Mere sells the job the brand will not staff.

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

The incumbent brand sells the relationship. Vetch Mere 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.

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.

Named operators
38%
Adapter work against the incumbent register, admin, or custodian.
Claims & campaign ops
21%
Keeping the public story from running ahead of the claims register.
Second market
22%
A counsel memo that can survive a later reader.
Control environment
19%
Dual-control drills, key ceremonies, and the person who owns them.

Operating week

What “in market” actually looks like.

TueExceptionsOvernight breaks post back into the customer’s case system. No side book.
MonClaimsEvery public sentence checked against the register. Anything extra is unpublished.
SunOwnersWho can decide messaging and budget on a recorded line. If the answer is nobody, stop.
SatDarkNo creators. No threads. Restricted geos stay dark.

The wedge

Why this one, not the other one.

They sell: Venue licence add-on
Who pays: A treasurer at a bank that already settles — not a crypto-native desk.
Unit economics: Annual software against an ops cost the board can see. Switching cost is the record, not the brand.
Moat on file: Members already post positions to the incumbent CCP; this sits beside it.
Switching cost: Scheme maps, ISO, LMA language, registry adapters — eighteen months of unglamorous work.
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.

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.

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
Pilot letters on file, identities redacted
Johannesburg 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.”

Product78
Customers62
Legal path62
Tech maturity63
Demand46
Market access68

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 Johannesburg story becomes a fact pattern. The restricted list exists for a reason: Global public, United States.

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. Vetch Mere has to be cheaper or faster before that happens.

Incumbent feature

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

Ask these next

01Is the waitlist demand for a product, or a queue for a coin?
02Where do keys, title, or NAV liability sit — and is that person licensed?
03What happens if a founder later wants a public token?
04What does renewal look like if no round ever happens?
05Which incumbent can copy this in a quarter, and what would they have to migrate?
06Which geography is actually locked, and which is a hope?

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: Vetch Mere 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.

Johannesburgnamed
United Kingdomnamed
Global publicrestricted
United Statesrestricted

Team

Who runs it.

Marcus ParkChief executive
Tomás SantosChief compliance

Stack

Permissioned netting
Clearing
Audit log

Named with them

Helix Audit
Clearline
Meridian Tax

Who can decide

Marcus Park (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
Vetch Mere 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
Pilot identities redacted in public	No board minute	draft
No public token is sold on this pad	Engagement terms + posture lock	live
Customers contemplated: Johannesburg, United Kingdom	Named markets on the file	live

On the record

Day 0 lockKick-offSep
Claim inventoryPackSep
Audience matrix draftPackSep

Operating log

11 Sep 12:24
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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