{"url":"https://cryptoflywheel.com/timeline/","title":"Timeline: Where the Crypto Flywheel Began","description":"How the Crypto Flywheel strategy was built, one part at a time, from a pool that buys as prices fall in November 2023 to the whitepaper in October 2026.","formats":{"html":"https://cryptoflywheel.com/timeline/","markdown":"https://cryptoflywheel.com/timeline.md","json":"https://cryptoflywheel.com/timeline.json"},"publisher":{"name":"Luminary One","url":"https://luminary.one"},"site":{"name":"Crypto Flywheel","url":"https://cryptoflywheel.com/","llms":"https://cryptoflywheel.com/llms.txt"},"heading":"How the Flywheel got here","summary":"The Flywheel was built one part at a time, in public. Each stop is a part or a milestone, with the video or post where it first appeared.","order":"newest first","entries":[{"date":"2026-10-12","dateText":"October 12th, 2026","title":"Whitepaper published","text":"The whole model in one paper: the Core, Engine, and Reserve, and the written Plan that runs them. Free to read and share under CC BY 4.0.","source":"https://cryptoflywheel.com/whitepaper/","also":[{"text":"DOI registered","date":"2026-10-12","url":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23325576"}]},{"date":"2026-05-05","dateText":"May 5th, 2026","title":"Three builds","text":"The Flywheel splits into three builds: foundational, blue chip, and advanced. They are now Foundation, Prime, and Advanced.","source":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4JhNcUMPOo&t=14s"},{"date":"2026-03-31","dateText":"March 31st, 2026","title":"Every position gets a job","text":"The coins you never sell back the loan. A second group earns. A reserve waits for the dips. These three jobs become the Core, Engine, and Reserve.","source":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqct3wvsxvA&t=326s"},{"date":"2025-09-24","dateText":"September 24th, 2025","title":"The Crypto Flywheel, start to finish","text":"The whole loop in one video, under the name it has today: lend your coins, borrow against them, and put the borrowed money to work growing the collateral.","source":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1bKEVVrvq0&t=150s","also":[{"text":"The Lend and Borrow Flywheel","date":"2025-02-17","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-MZNFfozNE&t=412s"}]},{"date":"2025-05-14","dateText":"May 14th, 2025","title":"The income gets directed","text":"A blog post decides where the income goes: back into pools to compound, into coins held for the long run, and into cash for the dips and for living on.","source":"https://web.archive.org/web/20250518233437/https://buildrwealth.com/blog/the-defi-flywheel-strategy-how-millionaires-grow-their-crypto-portfolio"},{"date":"2025-01-23","dateText":"January 23rd, 2025","title":"The first calculator","text":"A free calculator goes live on its own domain, so anyone can map out a Flywheel of their own.","source":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O4edvVpQkg&t=482s","also":[{"text":"Internet Archive copy","date":"2025-01-23","url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20250123135654/https://www.defiflywheel.com/"},{"text":"DeFiFlywheel.com registered","date":"2025-01-22","url":"https://lookup.icann.org/en/lookup?name=defiflywheel.com"}]},{"date":"2024-12-23","dateText":"December 23rd, 2024","title":"Named on camera","text":"The DeFi Flywheel gets its name, and the method fits on one whiteboard: deploy capital, earn income, compound it.","source":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6WQvuaLKtY&t=157s","also":[{"text":"First said on camera","date":"2024-12-11","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14mFjxuwHaw&t=360s"}]},{"date":"2024-10-30","dateText":"October 30th, 2024","title":"The loop closes","text":"The borrowed stablecoins earn, the earnings buy more Bitcoin, and that Bitcoin goes back in as collateral. Each turn of the loop feeds the next.","source":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1veqN-wHIU&t=426s","also":[{"text":"Taught live to members","date":"2024-11-05","url":"https://app.buildrwealth.com/c/member-live/creating-your-defi-flywheel-interactive-session"}]},{"date":"2024-09-16","dateText":"September 16th, 2024","title":"The loop comes together","text":"Jake draws the parts as one loop and runs his own portfolio on it: \"this is the flywheel right here.\"","source":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jex4d0TGe1o&t=160s"},{"date":"2024-01-29","dateText":"January 29th, 2024","title":"Holdings become collateral","text":"Coins held for the long run stop sitting still. They back a loan, and the stablecoins borrowed against them go to work in DeFi.","source":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5BJRyJZbFs&t=515s"},{"date":"2023-12-21","dateText":"December 21st, 2023","title":"First called a flywheel","text":"Fees from one pool buy a coin, and that coin is staked to earn again. Jake calls it \"a flywheel of me just constantly earning money.\"","source":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an67yDiFjGA&t=211s"},{"date":"2023-11-11","dateText":"November 11th, 2023","title":"A pool that buys on the way down","text":"It starts with a MATIC and USDC pool. As the price falls, the pool spends its USDC on MATIC and earns fees while it buys. The Engine still works this way.","source":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbUOownbG6Q&t=420s","also":[{"text":"Posted on X","date":"2023-08-27","url":"https://x.com/jakeacall/status/1695665093441138692"}]}]}