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18 years on... the Bitcoin whitepaper asked a question: can value move directly between two parties, anywhere, at any time?
Stablecoins are the answer at scale. Roughly $300B+ in circulation and over $30T moved on-chain last year.
Bitcoin was the beginning. Stablecoins are where the idea became infrastructure, and where most of the real-world usage now lives.
I’m delighted to announce that Lazaro Campos, former CEO of SWIFT, has joined @opentrade_io as Chair of our Board. Lázaro has spent 35 years building and governing the infrastructure global finance runs on. At @swiftcommunity he led a full strategic and financial transformation of a network serving 10,000 financial institutions across 210 countries, and network volumes nearly doubled under his leadership.
He has also sat on the Bank of England’s RTGS/CHAPS Board and the board of @StarlingBank, and he chairs @Payoneer Europe today. Stablecoins are becoming one of the rails global finance runs on, and the businesses building on them expect the same resilience and trust they get from the traditional system. Lázaro has spent his career setting that standard.
He joins as we move from early growth to scale. Over the past 12 months we’ve processed more than $1B in transaction volume, we now have $300M in total value locked. Having Lázaro as Chair for this next phase says a lot about what this team has built.
Welcome, Lázaro. We are thrilled to have you with us!
Lázaro Campos has joined OpenTrade as Chair.
Former SWIFT CEO. Ex-Bank of England RTGS/CHAPS Board. Chairs @Payoneer Europe and PPRO’s Advisory Board.
This year, @swiftcommunity, Payoneer and PPRO all took steps onto stablecoin rails. OpenTrade is built for them.
Welcome, Lázaro.
1/ Billions in stablecoins sit idle on platforms, earning nothing for the businesses that hold them or the users who trust them
We built @opentrade_io to put those balances to work with yield from high-quality real-world assets. $300M in TVL says the market agrees
At @money2020 USA 🇺🇸 next week. Coffee’s on me, just fill out the form in the reply below
I'm at @token2049 Singapore today and tomorrow.
If your platform holds stablecoins that aren't earning anything, for your treasury or your customers, I'd like to talk. @opentrade_io gives you access to yield vaults backed by high-quality real-world assets through one integration.
If that sounds like you, send me a DM.
Stablecoins rebuilt the rails. We’re rebuilding what balances earn on them.
@BTC_Jeff, Tom, and I founded @opentrade_io because we believed that every balance should be able to grow, and that platforms and institutions needed infrastructure they could trust to make it happen.
Today, more than $1B in transaction volume has moved through OpenTrade in the past 12 months. Our mission hasn't changed. The scale has, and our brand needed to catch up.
So we've rebuilt it. A new OpenTrade, designed to be as clear, credible and trusted as the institutions that rely on us expect.
One idea sits behind everything we build: Unlock more.
Because every balance should count.
See you there! @token2049
Your users' balances and your own treasury have one thing in common: left sitting, neither earns anything
We'll be at @token2049 Singapore, October 7-8, talking yield on both
Find @BTC_Dave, @BTC_Jeff, and Ronnie there, or send them a DM to book a call.
We founded @opentrade_io because we believed stablecoins would become the settlement layer for global finance
Now @SoFi settles a card program expected to pass $25B in annualized volume on @Mastercard's network with them
Spoke to @TheStreet about it 👇
thestreet.com/technology/som…
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Last week, the OpenTrade team got together in New Orleans 🇺🇸
Most days we're a team spread across time zones on a screen. This week it was gumbo, po' boys and an alligator who got a little too close for the group photo
It's been a big year: the team has grown, we've hit our goals and there's real momentum behind what we're building
A few days in the same room has us all heading home re-energized for what comes next.
Grateful for this crew. Thanks for having us, Big Easy
Thank you for having me on @imyoungsparks at the @avax Summit last week
I always thoroughly enjoy chatting with @BTC_Dave! We caught up at The Avalanche Summit on US Fintech Adoption, the latest @opentrade_io, Building on Avalanche, and so much more 🔺
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Our CEO @BTC_Dave joined @imyoungsparks on Layer One at the @avax summit to talk U.S. fintech adoption 👇
Stablecoin adoption in the US is a fintech push, not a consumer pull, says OpenTrade's @BTC_Dave.
Layer One with @imyoungsparks, live from the Avalanche Summit New York:
0:00 Intro
3:16 Clarity failure: no surprise
6:15 The bank lobby's deposit-flight warning
7:56 Fintechs serving emerging markets
10:20 Vaults: from yield to borrowing:
13:33 Eighteen months of DeFi integration
14:24 A new chairman from Swift
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Cross-border payments still run on outdated, decades-old tech.
Stablecoins skipped all of it, and now settle more than $30T a year, which is more than Visa, Mastercard and PayPal combined.
OpenTrade CEO @BTC_Dave spoke to @EntrepreneurUK on what comes next: why yield became how stablecoin fintechs acquire and retain users, why RWAs are winning as institutions move in, and why over a third of LATAM consumers have already paid with a stablecoin.
The next generation of financial services is being built on digital dollars.
Link to the full interview👇uk.entrepreneur.com/finance/…
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June, 2026. @opentrade_io
Tokenized active strategies - top 10 by capital distributed onchain, 30D change.
@ethena leads at $1.5B despite an 11.20% pullback.
@Spiko_finance up 38.36% to $1.0B.
@opentrade_io up 17.28% to $186.8M.
Biggest movers: @AccountableData +75.06%, @NestCredit +54.72%.
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1/ The best yield isn’t tied to one product. It's the one matched to each customer’s risk, return, and liquidity needs.
A neobank protecting consumer savings and an asset manager optimizing for return need different things from the same dollar.
OpenTrade gives fintechs the full range of yield sources to choose from, Money Market Funds, Bonds, ETFs, Private Credit, CLOs, Delta neutral strategies, Staking, DeFi LP, along with the tools to combine and tailor them into exactly the product their users need.
This episode was a bit outside my area of expertise, but it was probably one of the most fun.
The largest IPO in history was Alibaba in 2014, reaching $25B.
SpaceX just raised three times that at $75B. OpenAI and Anthropic are also planning to IPO this year, representing an estimated $135B in newly issued shares. If successful, these three companies will change the course of history.
What's the bear/bull case for each? Are these valuations justified? What can go wrong, and what happens if it does go wrong? Is this all just a sci-fi fantasy? How will domestic politics impact the trajectory of these companies and their peers?
We answer these questions and more in the most recent episode of @Money_Moves_Pod with @sjolewis and @eppy314.
Democratizing access to the dollar.
1/ 2000% TVL growth in 18 months.
That’s what happens when you build the yield infrastructure layer that every stablecoin-powered fintech in the world actually needs.
OpenTrade Co-Founder and CEO @BTC_Dave joined by @imyoungsparks and @John1wu on @TheBlockCo's Layer One podcast to break down why yield is the missing piece for stablecoin financial services - and why emerging markets are where this is playing out fastest. @sjolewis joins to share why yield capture is where @mercuryfund is placing their highest conviction bets.
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April was a month I'm genuinely proud of not just for the numbers, but for what they represent.
$200M+ in TVL. #1 and #2 on @stablewatchHQ. The launch of Curation+ and the Prime+ Vault on @avax. And the first episodes of @Money_Moves_Pod with @sjolewis and @eppy314.
Every one of these took months of hard work across our team and our partners, and seeing it all come together in a single month is a reminder of what we're building toward.
@BTC_Jeff's Cointelegraph piece captures the bigger picture well: $33 trillion in stablecoin transaction volumes in 2025 and the real question isn't supply, it's who captures the value moving through that infrastructure. We believe the answer has to include the users and platforms driving that velocity, and that's exactly what OpenTrade is built to enable.
Curation+ is a direct expression of that conviction. Bespoke vaults, actively managed, built for fintechs and neobanks that need predictable yield without the operational overhead. The Prime+ Vault is just the first.
There is a lot more to come.
1/ April was a big month for OpenTrade. Here's what happened 👇
We crossed $200M+ in TVL, launched Curation+ and the Prime+ Vault, held top spots on @stablewatchHQ, and kicked off a new podcast with @mercuryfund.
