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.'
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
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