Co-Founder at HopNow, Founder@21M Advisors, prior Coinbase, Bread (BRD), Anchorage, Vista Equity Partners
Joined March 2012
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Driven by client demand! We continue to serve clients wherever they want to be, happy to partner with @Plasma - great team!
We're pleased to announce a new partnership with @Plasma.
Together, HopNow and Plasma are enabling millions of dollars in daily cross-border flow for our global clients with the infrastructure to scale further.
Excited for what's next.
Brent Traidman 🛡️ retweeted
We hear you @BTraidman "Companies (treasurers) should be using stablecoins."
HopNow can guide your business on Xborder efficiences using stablecoins + fast settlement via virtual accounts. Learn more at Hopnow.io
@stabledash #Crossborder #Stablecoins #Fintech
Brent Traidman 🛡️ retweeted
For anyone in payments, two stable coin using giants are coming together soon perhaps? cnbc.com/2026/07/15/stripe-a…
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Live at 12:00 PM ET / 9:00 AM PT. Today's lineup:
- @natalyathakur, CEO of @KnovaFinance
- @BTraidman, Co-Founder of HopNow
- @LukeTuttle2049, CPTO of @MoneyGram
- @SimkinStepan, CEO of @multisig / @altitude
xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1pKkOOeor…
Brent Traidman 🛡️ retweeted
We're excited about the US CLARITY Act.
We think all YC companies will use crypto technology, like stablecoins, before long. Not just crypto startups, not just fintech startups, but every company.
Here's why this law is such a big deal 🧵
xitter.cf/SenLummis/status/20637…
Brent Traidman 🛡️ retweeted
Visa says stablecoins are 'reshaping the back end' of commerce as it expands AI, tokenization efforts theblock.co/post/404376/visa…
Brent Traidman 🛡️ retweeted
"It's more table stakes at this point. Like you should be using stablecoins."
@BTraidman, co-founder of HopNow, on what changed since his years fielding Fortune 100 calls at Coinbase:
"Why are we talking to this beverage company? Oh, because they move billions of dollars a day from this country to this country. Is there a better way to do this? Because it takes 30 days to get the money across the border. We're losing 5%."
"Now, five years later, they're actually doing some action. So that's why timing is good right now."
Brent Traidman 🛡️ retweeted
We just shipped stablecoins on @CashApp.
Everything runs from your existing USD balance - no separate wallet, no managing multiple chains, no extra setup, and importantly no fees.
Send and receive USDC on SOL, ETH, POL, and ARB.
The most seamless integration in the world imo.
Brent Traidman 🛡️ retweeted
Because then you have to add card fees. Why drag Visa along with us into the future like a software virus?
Amazing time to be alive @astro_reid
Only one chance in this lifetime…
Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.
I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.
Ha!
Pouring dry powder into crypto. The more it falls the more I buy. The more uncomfortable I get the better I feel. Chaos is a ladder.
#Crypto #bitcoinboy #xrp #buybuybuy #bigballs
This is not investment advise.
Brent Traidman 🛡️ retweeted
Once again Coinbase is fighting the good fight on behalf of the entire industry.
Prohibiting stablecoin yield is the most egregious act of regulatory capture I've ever seen.
Big thank you to @brian_armstrong and @iampaulgrewal for becoming "enemy No. 1"
wsj.com/finance/currencies/c…
Good point @patrickc
Something this WSJ piece omits is that what @brian_armstrong is arguing for is not obviously in Coinbase's interest: in a world where yield sharing is prohibited, USDC will at least in a first-order way be more directly profitable for Coinbase. As far as I can tell, Brian's position stems from his belief in the importance of a vibrant and competitive market that protects consumer liberty, and I think he deserves a lot of credit for that.
wsj.com/finance/currencies/c….
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The stage is being set
Confirmo now supports Plasma.
@ConfirmoPay processes $80M+ monthly for enterprise clients across e-commerce, trading, forex, and payroll.
Those merchants can now accept USD₮ on Plasma with zero gas fees.
Brent Traidman 🛡️ retweeted
Big thanks to @POTUS for his recommitment to getting market structure legislation done.
Brent Traidman 🛡️ retweeted
Confirmo now supports Plasma.
@ConfirmoPay processes $80M+ monthly for enterprise clients across e-commerce, trading, forex, and payroll.
Those merchants can now accept USD₮ on Plasma with zero gas fees.
Brent Traidman 🛡️ retweeted
For those who misunderstand what’s at stake in the debate on offering rewards on US-issued stablecoins under the GENIUS Act, a sobering and timely announcement from the People’s Bank of China that they plan to pay interest on the Digital Yuan. 🇨🇳🇨🇳
Tokenization is the future and the GENIUS Act was a visionary move by @POTUS and Congress to ensure US dollar stablecoins issued under US rules would be the primary settlement instrument of the future.🇺🇸🇺🇸
If this issue is mishandled in Senate negotiations on the market structure bill it could hand our global rivals a big assist in giving non-US stablecoins and CBDCs a critical competitive advantage at the worst possible time. Lobbyists for entrenched incumbents will always fight change. It's critical for negotiators to protect the primacy of the US dollar and the US financial system, not just incumbent interests.
Brent Traidman 🛡️ retweeted
Almost on cue, JPM released earnings this morning and reported $25B in net interest income. Thats how much profit a single bank made by not paying savers more. The claim that stablecoins paying interest harms lending is BS.
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Our team is heading to @money2020 in Vegas next week 🇺🇸
Drop us a DM if you'll be there too! #money2020USA
