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About Onramp

The ownership layer for a bitcoin standard.

Onramp is the bitcoin financial platform built for clients who measure outcomes in decades, not quarters — anchored by Multi-Institution Custody, extended across the full balance sheet.

Our Story

Built from conviction

Onramp was founded on a simple premise: bitcoin deserves an ownership layer that matches the integrity of the protocol itself. When we launched in 2023, the bitcoin landscape forced a false choice — take on the single-custodian risk of an exchange or fund product, or shoulder the full operational and attack-surface burden of self-custody. Neither option was fit for how serious capital needed to hold bitcoin.

A solitary oak tree standing in an open field — a symbol of long-term endurance.

Our Evolution

From a custody breakthrough to a full bitcoin financial platform

What began as an ownership structure has grown into a full bitcoin-centric financial services platform for clients building multi-generational wealth on a sound money standard.

An open road stretching toward the horizon — a symbol of long-arc growth.

Our Vision

Multi-Institution Custody is the future

Part of the beauty of Multi-Institution Custody is that it scales. The same architecture that secures a family’s dynasty trust secures a business treasury, an institutional allocation, and eventually a sovereign reserve. It is simply a superior design surface for holding bitcoin — risk-distributed, independently verified, operationally offloaded from the client, and built to endure.

Your Vault

What Sets Us Apart

The Onramp advantage

Architecture

Multi-Institution Custody is the only model that distributes key control across independent regulated entities while preserving on-chain verifiability and removing the operational burden from the client. With BitGo, Coincover, and Tetra Trust as key partners, we serve clients globally and can implement multi-jurisdictional quorums for complex international structures. No single point of failure.

One standard, every client profile

Families, individuals, businesses, RIAs, family offices, and institutions all sit on the same Multi-Institution Custody foundation. The architecture that secures a first-time holder is the same architecture that secures a nine-figure family office, a corporate treasury, or an institutional allocation.

Generational planning, built in

Estate structuring, dynasty trusts, and inheritance planning are not afterthoughts. They are native to how Multi-Institution Custody is designed. Quorums, beneficiaries, and succession can be architected to transfer cleanly across generations, without forcing heirs to wrestle with self-custody or rely on a single institution to outlive them.

A complete money platform

Through Onramp Finance, clients run their full financial life on sound money principles. Multi-Institution Custody-secured bitcoin, bitcoin brokerage, dollars that earn, a spending card, a bitcoin IRA, and direct access to gold. Every layer of the balance sheet, one platform.

Continuous product evolution

Our clients don't stand still, and neither do we. Onramp Guardian adds enhanced security layers, timelocks and velocity limits, granular permissioning, and multi-user controls for families coordinating across members, businesses managing multiple signers, and institutions enforcing role-based access.

Credibility and conviction

Our team brings together backgrounds from Brown Brothers Harriman, Coinbase, Bain, Stifel, Google, Unchained, and leading bitcoin-native firms, with a strategic advisory board that includes David Thayer, executive advisor at Blackstone. Onramp Media and Onramp Research extend that expertise outward — frameworks, reports, and long-form conversations that compound conviction over time.

Philosophy

What we believe

Bitcoin is the foremost asset

The rational reserve asset for a multi-decade monetary transition, and the only digital asset fit for serious capital.

Custody is the foundation

Multi-Institution Custody is the only model that scales from the individual to the sovereign without reintroducing the risks bitcoin was designed to eliminate.

Generational timelines

We publish the education that turns exposure into conviction, and orient everything we do around long-term ownership rather than extraction.

Who Built This

Bridging traditional finance and bitcoin, from the ground up

Onramp was built by operators who came up through Google, Coinbase, Brown Brothers Harriman, Bain, Stifel, Unchained, and leading bitcoin-native firms — with a strategic advisory board that includes David Thayer of Blackstone. Years on both sides of the table gave us the vantage point to see what the bridge actually needs to look like, and how little of the existing infrastructure was fit for how serious capital needs to hold bitcoin.

So we built what was missing. An institutional-grade ownership layer architected from first principles, fusing the discipline and client standards of traditional finance with deep bitcoin-native expertise and conviction.

We are building the bridge between the world that was and the world that’s coming — one that carries individuals, families, businesses, and institutions across.

Where We're Headed

The next decade of bitcoin adoption will be won by the platforms that take ownership seriously

Onramp’s ambition is to be the default ownership and money platform for a bitcoin-denominated world — for the family planning across three generations, the individual securing their first allocation, the business managing treasury and reserves, the institution deploying meaningful capital, and eventually the sovereign holding national reserves.

A stone bridge crossing a mountain stream — passage built to endure.

The Team

Our leadership team

Industry experts and tech innovators building the future of bitcoin custody.

Michael Tanguma

Michael Tanguma

Chief Executive Officer

Brian Cubellis

Brian Cubellis

Chief Strategy Officer

Nick DeLozier

Nick DeLozier

Chief Operations Officer

Matt Pontikes

Matt Pontikes

Head of Product & Operations

Cam Stromme

Cam Stromme

Head of Private Wealth

Matthew Ball

Matthew Ball

Head of Design

Jackson Mikalic

Jackson Mikalic

VP, Business Development

Jacob Ditslear

Jacob Ditslear

VP, Engineering

Key Partners

Built on trusted partnerships

Our custody architecture is powered by industry leaders in bitcoin security and insurance.

BitGo

Founded in 2013, BitGo is a leader in institutional-grade bitcoin security, custody, and liquidity. BitGo processes approximately 20% of all global bitcoin transactions by value and serves over 1,500 institutional clients in 50+ countries.

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Tetra Trust

Tetra Trust is Canada's first and only regulated digital asset custodian, registered under Alberta's Loan and Trust Corporations Act. Backed by comprehensive insurance and capital reserve requirements, Tetra provides institutional-grade custody.

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Coincover

Founded in 2018, Coincover is the Blockchain Protection Company, providing advanced threat detection, risk mitigation, and recovery solutions — all reinforced by an insurance-backed warranty. Coincover has mitigated risks across $30bn+ in transactions.

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Explore our comprehensive Bitcoin Glossary with 500+ terms, or dive into expert insights in our knowledge center and research library.

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