Wavestar — A Clearing House for the Orbital Economy
Brand and product site for Wavestar — "LCH for orbit," a central counterparty that clears bilateral trades in spectrum, downlink, orbital compute, and propellant.
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Bilateral deals in orbit — spectrum-hours, downlink minutes, ISL capacity, propellant — settle on handshakes and counterparty trust. Wavestar is the clearing house that novates those trades and isolates the risk, and we built the site that explains it.
The challenge
The pitch is genuinely hard to land: a central counterparty for an economy that barely exists yet. Wavestar borrows a century-old idea — the LCH model — and applies it to six orbital asset classes: spectrum-hours, downlink minutes, orbital compute, ISL capacity, hosted-payload slots, and propellant/ISAM. Every trade novates to Wavestar — buyer faces us, seller faces us — so no one carries another party’s default risk. The site had to make that legible to people who know clearing but not space, and people who know space but not clearing, while presenting four product modules as one coherent system.
The approach
We built on Next.js and React with strict TypeScript, styled with Tailwind CSS. The story leads with the analogy — a clearing house, for orbit — then earns it with the atomic four-step flow that anchors the whole platform: Match → Novate → Attest → Settle, where the resource leg, the attestation, and the transparency log advance together and cash settles in fiat or USDC. Dashboard-style modules surface the metrics that make it feel real rather than relying on adjectives.
What we built
- The four product modules on one design language: Terminal (fleet OMS), Market (CLOB-based listing and discovery), ORCH (the central counterparty for novation and clearing), and Attest (quorum-based fact signing, 8-of-12 BLS aggregate)
- A clear explainer of the
did:orbit:shared identity registry that lets all four modules address the same spacecraft, slot or ground station, backed by an append-only, Merkle-anchored transparency log - An animated Match → Novate → Attest → Settle walkthrough of how a trade clears
- A live-metric hero — $28B of uncleared bilateral spectrum volume, 4,221 live trades, 1.8ms ORCH p99 match latency, the 8-of-12 Attest quorum
- A buyer/seller-facing breakdown of novation and settlement scope across the six orbital commodities
The outcome
Wavestar is exactly the kind of brief this studio likes — a category that doesn’t have a vocabulary yet, made concrete. The same discipline drives our web development work whatever the domain; only the subject changes.