# How to use the Flywheel

We published the Crypto Flywheel as a public good so that anyone can learn it, use it, and build on it.

## Built with our clients

The Flywheel began in 2024 as a simple loop on a whiteboard and evolved over two years of running it with our private members. In October 2026 we published the entire model for free.

## Built on proven practice

The Flywheel takes what already works in other markets and brings it together in one system that runs on the blockchain.

## Better in the open

A model in the open can be checked, backtested, and judged on its merits. We want the crypto industry to have a clear, written way to build portfolios that hold up as markets rise and fall.

## How you can use it

### Go ahead

- Read, share, and teach the Crypto Flywheel.
- Write, post, and create content about the Crypto Flywheel by name.
- Build a Flywheel of your own, and call it your Flywheel.

### Ask us first

- Using either name for a product, course, fund, company, or anything you sell.
- Suggesting that we built, endorsed, or certified your work.

### Never

- A token, coin, or NFT that uses either name. Any you see are not ours.
- Our logos on anything of yours.

**Credit the whitepaper** whenever you quote it or use its figures. [How to credit](https://cryptoflywheel.com/legal/#credit).

Crypto Flywheel™ and DeFi Flywheel™ are trademarks of Luminary Assets LLC, which publishes as Luminary One. The whitepaper is © 2026 Luminary Assets LLC and licensed under CC BY 4.0. [Legal details](https://cryptoflywheel.com/legal/).

Questions, or a request to ask first: legal@luminaryassets.com

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