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Bolt Crypto LP

Protect the downside.

Keep the upside.

A Structured Bitcoin Strategy

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Core Principles

Win by Losing Less.

Our strategy is structured, disciplined, and designed to preserve capital while capturing Bitcoin’s long-term appreciation.

Capital Preservation — protective puts offset market downturns
Generating Yield in Down Markets — opportunistically buying dips with put proceeds
Regulated Counterparties Only — institutional-grade execution and custody
Transparent Fund Administration — independent NAV, monthly statements, full K-1
Controlled Outcome

Your Bitcoin lives inside a band.

Every position is wrapped between two agreed prices: a floor that protects it if the market drops, and a cap that pays for that protection. Inside the band, Bitcoin does what Bitcoin does — without the catastrophic outcomes.

$130K $120K $110K $100K $90K $80K CAP · $125,000 Agreed sell price if it rips higher FLOOR · $88,000 Your protection if it drops PROTECTED ZONE ₿ $99K
The Strategy

Volatility is a feature, not the flaw.

The band is built in three moves — executed as one structure, at zero net cost.

Step 01
Long Bitcoin

Own Bitcoin directly through institutional rails. The core position participates in upside through the cycle.

Step 02
Buy Insurance

Put options define the downside over the hedge period — reducing drawdowns and generating liquidity in selloffs.

Step 03
Sell Upside

Selling upside finances the insurance — capping a portion of upside in exchange for a defined risk band. The cost of the floor is disclosed upfront.

Our Story

A fund built on accident.

Jim Brumbaugh, General Partner of Bolt Crypto LP
Jim Brumbaugh
General Partner — Bolt Crypto LP

I hated Bitcoin. I hated hedge funds.
I was looking for a safe way to invest.

It started simply: I wanted a smarter way to invest my own capital. I’d been drawn to collar strategies for a while — buy the downside protection, sell the ceiling to fund it, zero net cost. The structure made sense. The question was which underlying asset had the right volatility profile to make it work.

I ran through the usual candidates. Then, almost reluctantly, I looked at Bitcoin. I’ll be honest — I didn’t like it. It felt speculative, noisy, untethered. But my gut kept pulling me back to the data. The volatility wasn’t a bug; it was exactly the fuel this vehicle needed. Bitcoin turned out to be the near-perfect underlying for a zero-cost collar.

Once I committed to the thesis, I did it right. I formed the entity I needed to trade the structures I wanted. Early on, a few friends saw what I was building and wanted in — and that changed everything. I wasn’t going to cut corners just because the fund was small.

Finding a law firm equipped to write proper offering documents for a crypto fund was harder than I expected. When I found the right counsel, I paired them with a top-tier fund administrator: independent NAV calculations, verified returns, and a personal monthly statement for every LP. No black box. Full transparency from day one.

The counterparty side matured alongside the asset. As Bitcoin gained institutional acceptance, the regulated broker and custodian ecosystem grew with it — and today regulated, institutional-grade counterparties form the backbone of everything we execute.

The strategy is now battle-tested across full market cycles, with safety as the number-one priority. And I keep building — adding layers to make it safer and to enhance yield in any environment. The goal has never changed: protect capital first, and let the compounding do the rest.

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