About the Club

An association of discerning associates, founded on the conviction that the future of finance deserves better tailoring.

Origin

Cryptoflex Club was founded in the autumn of 2021 by three associates who met in a Telegram group and realized, somewhere between the fourth and fifth message, that the people they were speaking with were almost certainly the most interesting people they had ever encountered, and also that the medium of a Telegram group did not, on reflection, do them justice.

The first meeting took place in a private dining room above a steakhouse in lower Manhattan. There were seven attendees. Two of them have since departed for other ventures, on cordial terms. One of them is now the Chief Vibes Officer.

By the spring of 2022 the Club had ninety-one associates, a leased mailing address in Wilmington, a bespoke wax seal commissioned from a stationer in Edinburgh, and a working definition of liquidity that took eleven minutes to read aloud at the inaugural Liquidity Gala. We have since shortened it to nine.

Mission

Cryptoflex Club exists to provide considered company to those who hold positions in digital assets and who would prefer to discuss those positions in rooms that smell of cedar.

We are not a fund. We are not a syndicate. We are not, despite frequent confusion, a multi-level marketing arrangement. We do not, under any circumstances, offer alpha. We sometimes overhear it, and when we do, we trust that those present will treat what they have overheard with the discretion that the setting demands.

The three pillars

Every initiative the Club undertakes is anchored in one of three pillars. The pillars are deliberately broad. They are also deliberately ranked.

Liquidity. Our associates manage capital. Our role is to ensure that the conversations they have around that capital are conducted with the seriousness, leisure, and lighting that the subject merits. Liquidity, here, refers to the quality of an evening as much as the depth of a market.

Loyalty. The Club operates on the principle that the second meeting is more important than the first. Our retention rate among Whale and Sovereign tier associates is, frankly, embarrassing to most of our peer organizations, and we do not bring it up.

Leisure. No one has ever made a sound decision in a hurry. The Club's events are paced accordingly. Our shortest gathering is four hours. Our longest is, by tradition, the annual Aspen retreat, which runs from a Thursday lunch through the following Sunday brunch.

What we do

We host gatherings. We circulate a weekly Liquidity Brief, written by associates for associates. We maintain a discreet member directory, accessible only to those at Whale tier and above. We sponsor a small annual prize, the Cryptoflex Medal of Considered Conduct, awarded each November to one associate who has, in the judgment of the Standards Committee, comported themselves with notable grace through a difficult quarter.

We do not give investment advice. We do not solicit investments. We do not take a percentage of anything our associates do.

Joining

Membership is by application. Applications are reviewed in cohorts, four times a year. The application form takes most prospective associates between twenty and forty minutes to complete. The questions are not difficult. They are simply considered.

Initiate tier admits the broadest range of applicants. Whale and Sovereign tiers are admitted only after a brief conversation with a member of the Standards Committee, conducted by phone, during business hours, in the time zone of the applicant's choosing.