Who We Are

Built by operators.Not influencers. Not marketers.

Crypto Renegades was founded by two individuals who have built, lost, rebuilt, and refined across multiple financial cycles. What you find inside is the discipline that survived.

Combined Experience

25+ years

Cycles Navigated

Four

Members Mentored

Thousands

Founding Year

2017

Co-Founder · Operator 01

Niko Mercuris

25+ years across business, markets, and capital strategy.

For over 25 years, Niko has operated across business and financial markets — navigating expansion, contraction, and everything between. In 2008, he lost $4 million during the market crash. A defining moment that reshaped his philosophy on risk, capital preservation, and sustainable wealth.

What followed was not retreat — it was refinement. He went on to build and scale multiple successful businesses, participate in eight-figure acquisitions, and mentor thousands of traders across multiple cycles.

Structure protects.

Discipline compounds.

25+

Years operating in markets and business

8-Fig

Acquisitions structured and executed

1,000s

Traders mentored across cycles

Co-Founder · Operator 02

Chad Wittfeldt

Acquired Bitcoin near $100. Has been operating since.

Chad entered crypto early — acquiring Bitcoin as a teenager when it traded near $100. What began as curiosity evolved into a career structured around capital deployment and asset strategy.

Over the years, he has scaled multi-million dollar digital asset operations, structured tens of millions in real estate syndications, and mentored traders across market conditions. His philosophy is measured and precise.

Capital should be deployed intentionally.

Emotion has no seat at the table.

~$100

BTC entry price · acquired as a teenager
 

$10s M

Real estate syndications structured

Multi-M

Digital asset operations scaled
What This Means

Two operators. One philosophy.

Different paths. Different scars. The same conviction: that markets reward discipline, and that survival compounds across cycles. The Renegades is the environment that emerged from that shared belief.

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