Crays Mercedes Island:
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Creating a future where hospitality, nature, real assets, and innovation thrive together inside the Crays association ecosystem.

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The Crays Mercedes Island development project will connect personal freedom with real-world infrastructure: places to stay, work and meet, plus digital rails for identity, access, payments and participation. The vision is not luxury as decoration. It is luxury as reliability, privacy, quality and human proximity.

Aerial coastline view of Crays Mercedes Island

Aerial view of Apuao Grande Island and surrounding coastline

Quiet beach and local boat at Crays Mercedes Island

Proposed Apuao Grande villa development among island trees

Proposed villa living room interior for Crays Mercedes Island

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Aerial view of Apuao Grande, also known as Mercedes Island, from the Amihan project materials

The Crays World on Mercedes Island

Mercedes Island, also known as Apuao Grande Island, is the physical home for the first Crays Club Resort rollout: a 64-hectare island with beaches, forest, legacy resort infrastructure, guest houses, leisure spaces and an existing local community. Crays starts with a place people can actually visit, work from, host in and help revive.

On top of that foundation, the Crays World technology adds the digital layer: Nostr identity, access, reservations, services, payments and local discovery. Guests and members can move through the island with one simple interface while the operator keeps the relationship direct and the community becomes visible, useful and alive on site.

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Crays Mercedes Island Fact Sheet

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A focused investor view of the island asset, existing resort infrastructure, villa redevelopment pipeline, and operating model behind the Crays Mercedes Island revival.

Apuao Grande Island beach in Mercedes, Camarines Norte, Philippines

Asset base 64 ha private island also known as Apuao Grande Island

Current basis $8M valuation basis with $500-800K target raise

Phase 1 rollout 10 villas Mercedes Island villa redevelopment asset enhancement

Asset enhancement Est. IRR 100% AMIHAN summary marks renovation initiation as approved

AMIHAN structure 40% direct ownership with executive control; SPA route for remaining 60%

Existing resort base 30 bungalows plus restaurant, beach bar, pool, tennis, gym, sauna, golf course and airstrip

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64-Hectare Resort Base

Mercedes Island is the first physical rollout: beach, legacy resort infrastructure, guest houses, leisure spaces and room to revive.

Crays Club Model

Clubs combine work, lounge, wellness, stays, events and founder areas into one premium living room abroad.

Connected Venue Nodes

Hotels, clubs, coffee shops, villas and islands can share demand, standards, booking flow and member access.

Multiple Revenue Moments

Stay, work, eat, meet, recover, attend events and return through memberships, perks and curated local services.

High-Value Audience

Nomads, creators, builders, investors and cypherpunks bring capital, networks, repeat visits and referral demand.

Luxury STR Upside

Crays Fund logic links real estate protection with professionally managed short-stay hospitality income.

Coffee Micro-Retail

Crays Coffee adds daily ritual, Lightning payments, loyalty and compact city-node formats that can activate venues.

Culture as Demand Engine

Music, fashion, art, media and brand events turn the island into a destination people book, share and revisit.

One Guest App

Discovery, access, bookings, ordering, rewards, recommendations, reputation and community moments live in one flow.

Nostr Identity Layer

Guests keep portable profiles, social graphs and creator links instead of rebuilding identity at every venue.

Island Super Node

A local node can run relay, mesh, access rules, marketplace signals and venue services for Mercedes Island.

Lightning Payments

Bookings, deposits, food, drinks, tips, creator unlocks and rewards can settle as instant Bitcoin-native payments.

AI Matching Engine

Profiles, mood, location, intention, payments and reputation can become matches, offers and recommendations.

Hospitality OS

PMS, booking engine, CRM, POS, loyalty and yield tools connect instead of becoming isolated venue software.

Community Network

Crays.net shows the Nostr social layer: feeds, reads, messages, bookmarks, notifications and discovery.

Revenue-Ready Rails

Licensing, marketplace take rates, payments, software subscriptions and partner services can compound across nodes.

Swiss Association Layer

Crays.org provides neutral governance for brand use, standards, member coordination and project approval.

Fund Platform Logic

Crays Fund structures onboarding, KYC, cap tables, updates, distributions and tokenized real-world assets.

Brand-as-a-Service

Approved operators can build under aligned Crays terms across hospitality, real estate, retail and technology.

Independent Operators

Partners stay entrepreneurial while sharing infrastructure, demand, brand visibility and network effects.

Mercedes Proof Point

The island proves whether governance, hospitality, technology and capital can operate as one investable system.

Revenue Architecture

Upside can come from stays, orders, memberships, software, licensing, partner take rates and repeat demand.

Global Node Map

Zug, London, Dubai, Singapore, Miami, Cayman and Palma support governance, capital and expansion roles.

2035 Scale Path

Long-term value comes from clubs, venue nodes, profiles, IP, capital rails and community participation compounding.

How to visit us

Find Crays Mercedes Island

Apuao Grande Island sits off the coast of Mercedes, Camarines Norte, in the Bicol region of the Philippines. The simplest route is to arrive in Daet, continue to Mercedes Port, then cross by hosted island boat.

10-15 minutes from Daet to Mercedes Port
Boat transfer from Mercedes to Apuao Grande
About 8 hours from Metro Manila by bus to Daet

Plan Your Visit to Crays

International guests normally fly into Manila first. From there, continue toward Naga or Daet by domestic flight, private transfer, or overnight bus before meeting the island team in Mercedes.

International gateway: Manila
Closest flight access: Naga Airport
Final mainland point: Mercedes Port

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The most stunning lifestyle space on the globefor nomads, creators, builders, investors, and cypherpunks.

Our Crays Club concept

Your living room abroad — combining work, life, play, lounges, co-working, wellness, living spaces, VIP founder areas, events, brand partners, and a connected local-global community.

Crays Clubs bring the entire real-world experience of the Crays ecosystem into one seamless app and connected hospitality network: from bookings, ordering, and rewards to reputation, trusted recommendations, and meeting the right people.

One real-world place and one digital app for your social life, club access, reservations, venue services, perks, and authentic community experiences all over the world.

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Set up as a Swiss association, Crays is building a global community designed to give every member access to capital, networks, and opportunities to fund ventures and scale faster together — bringing the vision to life across lifestyle, hospitality, real-world assets, digital infrastructure, and community-owned places.