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Turtle Club US provides the digital infrastructure for the Ancient and Honorable Order of Turtles, a global social fraternity. It manages membership, digitizes traditional initiation rituals, and offers branded merchandise. This platform ensures the organization’s enduring legacy and continuous expansion, connecting members globally and fostering its unique community.
The Ancient and Honorable Order of Turtles originated with US Army Air Corps officers, such as Captain Hugh P. McGowan, in WWII England to foster camaraderie. Dave Crabill, whose father Don Crabill was a member from the 1950s, later founded Turtle Club US. Leveraging his marketing background, Crabill established this digital hub to modernize and perpetuate the fraternity's traditions.
The platform unites a diverse, international membership through shared humor and fellowship. Turtle Club US seeks to preserve and spread the Order's unique philosophy, fostering new local chapters and expanding its global presence. Its vision is to cultivate an inclusive community where members find joy and connection, ensuring the tradition thrives.
Turtle Club has raised $11.5M across 2 funding rounds.
Turtle Club has raised $11.5M in total across 2 funding rounds.
Turtle Club has raised $11.5M in total across 2 funding rounds.
Turtle Club's investors include Amber, Anchorage, Bitscale Capital, coinIX, FalconX, Fasanara Capital, Flowdesk, Gami Capital, GSR, JPEG, NRD Capital, Reflexive Capital.
Turtle Club has raised $11.5M across 2 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $5.5M Other Equity in October 2025.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 27, 2025 | $5.5M Venture Round | — | Amber, Anchorage, Bitscale Capital, Coinix, FalconX, Fasanara Capital, Flowdesk, Gami Capital, GSR, Jpeg, NRD Capital, Reflexive Capital, Relayer Capital, SNZ, Theia Ventures, Tower 18 Capital, Trident Digital, Varys Capital, Wise3 Ventures | Announced |
| May 1, 2025 | $6M Seed | Theia Ventures | Peter PAN, 7percent Ventures, A Capital, Ethereal Ventures, Fmfw.io, ParaFi Capital, Vitalik Buterin, Joseph Lubin, Ryan Fang, Yoann Turpin, Archimed Capital, Auros, Bodhi Ventures, Chorus ONE, ConsenSys, Frachtis, L2iv, Laser Digital, Moonhill Capital, RE7 Capital, Selini Capital, Shorewoods, Susquehanna, Trident Digital, Triton Liquid Fund, Tulipa Capital | Announced |
Turtle Club is a Web3 distribution protocol that tracks users' on-chain financial activities—such as providing liquidity, swaps, staking, and referrals—and rewards them with tokens from partner protocols' treasuries, enabling higher yields without extra transactions or risks.[1][2][4] It serves liquidity providers (LPs), protocols, developers, investors, and security experts in the DeFi ecosystem by aligning incentives through a DAO-managed model, fostering sustainable growth and value creation over extraction.[1][2][4] With over 275,000 registered wallets, partnerships like Ether.fi, Renzo, and Swell driving $1.5B+ TVL, and $6.2M raised (including a $5.5M round), Turtle Club has rapid growth momentum as Web3's largest distribution protocol since its 2024 launch.[1][2][4][5]
Turtle Club launched its MVP in March 2024, quickly scaling to become a major player in Web3 by year's end with over 275,000 wallets.[1][4] Key figures include Essi and Ben, who lead the project; Essi focuses on monetizing user activity across chains and dApps, while Ben oversees yield generation through nodes, lending, borrowing, and staking.[2] The idea emerged from DeFi's inefficiencies—like "protocol-level loan sharking" in traditional liquidity models that harm stakeholders via short-term incentives and token dumps—prompting a shift to symbiotic, long-term reward distribution.[2] Early traction came from simple wallet connections for rewards, exclusive liquidity access, and partnerships bootstrapping TVL to $1.5B+.[1][2]
(Note: One source mentions a security audit marketplace,[3] but primary evidence points to liquidity distribution as the core product.[1][2][4])
Turtle Club rides the DeFi trend toward sustainable liquidity and user-centric incentives, countering extractive models amid Web3's maturation post-2024 growth cycles.[2] Timing aligns with rising TVL demands and multi-chain adoption, where protocols need bootstrapping without dumps—market forces like high yields (via partnerships) and $1.5B+ TVL amplify this.[1][2] It influences the ecosystem by enabling protocols to monetize activity transparently, fostering symbiotic relationships, and promoting DAO-driven decentralization, potentially reducing risks for the $100B+ DeFi sector.[2][4]
Turtle Club's V2 roadmap, new whitepapers, and full decentralization via community governance position it to dominate programmable liquidity as DeFi scales.[2] Trends like AI-driven yields, cross-chain interoperability, and regulatory clarity for DAOs will shape its path, evolving its influence from reward distributor to ecosystem orchestrator—maximizing Web3 financial activities as promised.[1][2]
