Wavestar Newsroom
Corporate announcements and regulatory milestones.
- Entity
- Wavestar Holdings LLC
- Jurisdiction
- Wyoming
- Founded
- February 2026
- Press cadence
- Weekly as material
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Corporate
Wavestar Holdings LLC incorporates in Wyoming
The founding team files the charter for a neutral utility dedicated to clearing the orbital economy. Operational on day one from New York, with EMEA and APAC footprints planned on the regulatory filing cadence.
2026-02-12
Regulatory
Wavestar files for FinCEN Money Services Business registration
First of a four-track regulatory filing plan. MSB lets us hold member settlement funds segregated from operating capital — the base layer under ATS, DCO and SEF/DCM.
2026-03-04
Corporate
Design-partner cohort opens with five-and-five-and-five target
Five operators, five regulators, five ground-station providers. Zero-fee clearance through the first $10M notional and a permanent seat on the rulebook working group.
2026-03-18
Protocol
did:orbit method specification v0.1 published for public review
The shared namespace for spacecraft, slots, ground stations, and orbital assets. Apache 2.0, open-spec, extending W3C DID Core. Comment window runs through June.
2026-03-25
Product
ORCH clearing engine settles first synthetic downlink-minute trade
Internal alpha. 62 microseconds from match to novation, 14 milliseconds to Merkle inclusion, 1.8 seconds to BLS-quorum attestation. Production targets hold.
2026-04-02
Partnership
Wavestar joins Kepler optical-mesh interoperability working group
ISL capacity as a cleared asset class depends on a common measurement standard across operators. Wavestar sits on the capacity-measurement subcommittee.
2026-04-08
Regulatory
Wavestar opens pre-filing dialogue with SEC Division of Trading and Markets
ATS-N for spectrum-rights matching is the second of four regulatory tracks. Pre-filing meetings allow staff input before Form ATS-N submission in Q3.
2026-04-15
Corporate
Wavestar closes $15M seed to build the clearing spine
24 months of runway to ship the v1 platform — ORCH, Terminal, Market, Attest — and complete the FinCEN-to-DCO regulatory track. Series A targeted Q2 2028.
2026-04-18
Also from Wavestar
Insights and research
Insights
Reading from the clearing team
Thesis pieces, market microstructure notes, and commentary on the orbital economy from Wavestar operators and officers.
Research
Protocol papers and white papers
Formal specifications, trust-model papers, and technical research underlying the Wavestar platform. Peer-reviewed where applicable.
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