Lanistar

aid: lanistar
name: Lanistar
description: 'Lanistar was a London-based consumer fintech founded in 2019 by Gurhan Kiziloz, known for a heavily influencer-marketed
  "polymorphic" Mastercard debit card with an on-card keypad and display that generated single-use PIN and CVV2 codes. Lanistar
  Limited operated as an EMD agent of Modulr FS Limited under FCA authorisation, with cards issued by AF Payments Limited,
  and pivoted its consumer launch to Brazil where it offered a mobile account, Pix transfers and in-app crypto buying and
  selling. The company never operated a developer program: no public API, developer portal, OpenAPI or other machine-readable
  contract, SDK, or public GitHub repository was ever published. Lanistar Limited (company number 12091938) was placed into
  compulsory liquidation by a court winding-up order filed 14 April 2025, and its public surface has since gone dark — lanistar.com
  and lanistar.app no longer resolve to any web host, the lanistar.co.uk domain is listed for sale by a domain broker, and
  the com.lanistar Google Play listing has been removed. This profile is retained as a historical record; there is no API
  surface to enrich.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lanistar/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: defunct-no-api-surface
x-status: liquidation
x-status-source: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12091938
x-company-number: '12091938'
x-jurisdiction: GB
x-incorporated: '2019-07-08'
x-winding-up-order: '2025-04-14'
x-domain-status: dark
x-domain-note: lanistar.com is still registered (GoDaddy, Cloudflare NS, expiry 2029-09-27) and still carries Google Workspace
  MX plus an SPF record, but the zone publishes no A, AAAA or CNAME record, so every HTTP probe fails at DNS resolution. lanistar.app
  and www.lanistar.app do not resolve. lanistar.co.uk resolves to a Spaceship.com domain-for-sale parking page and is not
  the company. lanistar.com.br is an unrelated Brazilian influencer-marketing site ("Lanislar Creator") and is deliberately
  not wired as a Website pointer.
x-contract-discovery:
  date: '2026-08-04'
  result: none
  note: No machine-readable contract found. All probes failed at DNS resolution because no Lanistar-controlled host resolves.
    Probed /.well-known/security.txt, /.well-known/agent-card.json, /openapi.json and /llms.txt on lanistar.com and www.lanistar.com
    (all HTTP 000, NXDOMAIN-class resolution failure). github.com/lanistar exists but publishes zero public repositories.
    A Wayback CDX inventory of 900 archived lanistar.com URLs contains no api/developer/docs/swagger/ openapi/graphql path;
    the only archived /.well-known/* 200s are single-page-app soft-404s from 2025-07-22, and the pre-2020 archived content
    belongs to an unrelated "Lani Star" vocal-coaching blog that previously held the domain.
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-04'
modified: '2026-08-04'
tags:
- Company
- Defunct
- Financial-Services
- Fintech
- Banking
- Payments
- Debit Cards
- Neobank
- United Kingdom
- Brazil
tags_raw:
- Company
- Defunct
- Financial Services
- Fintech
- Banking
- Payments
- Debit Cards
- Neobank
- United Kingdom
- Brazil
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: CompanyRegistration
  name: Companies House — LANISTAR LIMITED (12091938)
  url: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12091938
- type: SecondaryMarket
  name: Hiive secondary-market listing
  url: https://www.hiive.com/securities/lanistar-stock
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-04'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1