A private operator network for people building in crypto.

One high-signal weekly brief, trusted peer introductions, and curated jobs, partnerships, and pilots — without token calls, influencer noise, or beginner content.

Club Crypto is a small, vetted membership for senior product, engineering, and operations people at crypto-native and crypto-adjacent startups.

A five-minute weekly brief focused on decisions and opportunities that matter to builders
An opt-in directory of vetted peers in product, engineering, operations, and early-stage startups
Manually curated opportunities: jobs, partnerships, pilots, bounties, grants, and events

Apply for founding membership Have questions first?

$15/month or $150/year, locked for the first year.

We’re opening a small founding cohort. Application required.

What’s included

01
A five-minute weekly brief focused on decisions and opportunities that matter to builders
02
An opt-in directory of vetted peers in product, engineering, operations, and early-stage startups
03
Manually curated opportunities: jobs, partnerships, pilots, bounties, grants, and events
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Warm introductions when there’s a clear fit
05
Occasional small roundtables (not conferences)

What membership looks like

A weekly email brief, a private member space, and introductions we make by hand. No app. No token.

After you apply

1
We review your application and reply by email within 3 business days.
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If you're accepted, you will receive a confirmation email along with a payment link.
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Once you've paid, you get a private Discord invite and the weekly brief.

Who we mean

Crypto-native

Crypto-native companies are ones where blockchains or tokens are the product. If the chain went away, the business would too. They build wallets, exchanges, protocols, on-chain infrastructure, and the developer tools that sit on top of them. Their day-to-day problems include key management, smart contract risk, chain selection, and token-related legal questions.

Examples

Phantom – self-custodial crypto wallet.
Uniswap Labs – builds the Uniswap protocol and the apps around it.
Alchemy – node infrastructure and APIs for developers building on blockchains.

Crypto-adjacent

Crypto-adjacent companies use crypto as one part of a bigger business, usually one that serves mainstream customers who never think about chains. That covers stablecoin payments, compliance and blockchain analytics, custody, fintech, tokenized assets, and enterprise software. Their day-to-day problems are bank partnerships, licensing, compliance programs, and fitting on-chain rails into existing products.

Examples

Bridge – stablecoin orchestration APIs for businesses. Stripe bought it for $1.1B, and the deal closed Feb 4, 2025.
Chainalysis – blockchain analytics and compliance tooling for businesses and government agencies.
Paxos – regulated issuer and infrastructure provider behind enterprise stablecoins, including PayPal USD (PYUSD).

These companies are illustrative. Most are much larger than the 5–50 person teams our members work at. We use them because readers will recognize them, not because they are members or partners.

For: senior product, engineering, and ops people at 5–50 person crypto-native or crypto-adjacent startups in the US who make real decisions every week, plus a limited number of vetted advisors with real crypto experience.

Not for: traders, speculators, students, people who want to learn passively, or anyone looking to sell services to members. We don't cover prices, tokens to buy, or market calls.

About the founder

Alan Bennett, CPA (inactive), is the founder of Club Crypto, a private operator network for product, engineering and operations people at crypto-native and crypto-adjacent startups in the US.

Alan spent more than 23 years at a public semiconductor company, rising from Corporate Tax Manager to Vice President of Finance and Corporate Controller. He started his career in tax and holds a Master's in Taxation from the University of Southern California.

He started Club Crypto to give experienced product, engineering and operations people in crypto a place to compare notes with peers, because most crypto communities are built for traders, newcomers and founders, not for the people running the day-to-day.

Club Crypto is informational only and does not provide investment, legal, tax or accounting advice.

Membership

Founding offer: $15/month or $150/year, locked for the first year.

We’re opening a small founding cohort. Application required.

Standard after founding: $25/month or $240/year.

This is not investment advice, trading signals, or a news feed. Everything is for informational purposes only.

Founding cohort now forming.

Sample brief

We’re opening a small founding cohort. Application required.

Apply for founding membership Have questions first?