Eng + Product lead at @coinbase for Agentic Finance. In my spare time I build political advocacy tools that increase economic freedom with @DoTheySupportIt.
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Travis Bloom🛡️ retweeted
One day and 33 called races later, 51 senators have a pro-crypto rating vs. 52 before (counting Alaska where both candidates are pro-crypto)
Dems flipped 7 Republican-held seats -> 4 of those winners have an A from @standwithcrypto
Another sign crypto's becoming bipartisan.
Travis Bloom🛡️ retweeted
Pro crypto camp is as big and important as ever. Keep building.
Travis Bloom🛡️ retweeted
Elections are important milestones, but shaping public policy is a long-term endeavor.
This election cycle demonstrated just how far the crypto community has come. 67 million Americans own crypto. More than 3 million have joined @standwithcrypto, with volunteers engaging voters across the country. Fairshake played an important role in supporting pro-crypto candidates on both sides of the aisle, with significant wins in races across the country.
We also saw valued allies lose their races, and they deserve our gratitude for standing up for America’s leadership in innovation.
The stakes are high. Crypto technology will help shape the future of global finance, and the decisions we make today will help determine whether America leads that transformation.
The broader trajectory is clear: crypto has become a durable, bipartisan political constituency. The passage of GENIUS and the overwhelming bipartisan House vote for CLARITY reflect that growing support.
At @coinbase, we’ve always understood that meaningful policy change takes sustained engagement, across parties and across election cycles.
We’re proud of the progress, grateful to everyone who participated, and committed to the work ahead. We’re here for the long haul.
Travis Bloom🛡️ retweeted
Crypto has always been bipartisan, and the important work to keep the U.S. leading continues.
@crypto_council and the industry will do what we always do: engage constructively, work across the aisle, and bring a global view of why the U.S. must lead and how that best protects Americans. Excited for 2027, the new Congress (with crypto champions on both sides), and the work ahead.
Travis Bloom🛡️ retweeted
1/ The post-election hot takes are missing an important point: the election wasn’t a referendum on crypto. Some crypto champions won and some lost, but we have more pro-crypto candidates elected to Congress than we’ve ever seen in a new member class before. That’s progress.
Travis Bloom🛡️ retweeted
Election night is almost here.
Crypto voters won’t find this anywhere else: every House and Senate race shaping crypto policy, tracked live, with each candidate’s crypto score right next to the results.
standwithcrypto.org/races
Travis Bloom🛡️ retweeted
lovely start to a Tuesday am — workout, read equity perps announcement from @CFTC, and voted, all by 7:30 ☀️
Make sure to vote! 🗳️ check out the @standwithcrypto voter guide for info on pro crypto candidates
standwithcrypto.org/vote?ses…
Travis Bloom🛡️ retweeted
Crypto voters changed Washington in 2024. Today, voters are on track to elect more pro-crypto candidates than ever before. This is a bipartisan movement, and the foundation is strong regardless of which party wins the House or Senate
I’m proud that @standwithcrypto and its more than three million U.S. advocates have been doing the work:
- 45 endorsed races on both sides of the aisle.
- 20K+ voter turnout actions by volunteers (door knocks, phone conversations, and more)
- 12 candidate forums connecting candidates directly with crypto voters.
That comes after nearly 520,000 contacts to Congress on the CLARITY Act since May, and 1.2 million contacts over the past two years.
What makes crypto special is that it’s a movement, powered by people who care. We organize, show up, and support candidates in both parties who want clear rules, consumer protections, and American leadership in digital assets.
We’ve made our voices heard all year. Now it’s time to make them count at the ballot box.
Travis Bloom🛡️ retweeted
Calls made. Doors knocked. Classrooms filled.
For weeks, our chapter presidents, advocates, students, and volunteers have shown up to turn out the crypto vote across the country. None of this happens without you.
Election Day is tomorrow, November 3.
Travis Bloom🛡️ retweeted
Many elections this year will be decided by a small number of votes.
Your vote gives you the power to hold anti-crypto lawmakers accountable.
Use the SWC Voter Hub to see who is pro-crypto and make a plan to vote. The future of crypto depends on it.
standwithcrypto.org/vote
Travis Bloom🛡️ retweeted
Our team is doing everything we can to support in the current situation, including blocking sends to compromised wallets. We've also reached out to Binance to offer our help.
Moments like this call for the industry to work together. Openly sharing any useful information and helping to protect customers should come first, regardless of which platform they use. If you can do anything to help, please do!
Crypto has been through many tough times, and has always come out stronger on the other side. This won’t be any different.
Travis Bloom🛡️ retweeted
NY Mag's long @SenGillibrand piece ends with Maple the Labradoodle barking at the reporter, which seems about right. The case against the senator: she wants rules for crypto, while the experts quoted would rather hope "no one uses these things," in a market already measured in trillions. That's not a regulatory philosophy, and it doesn't protect a single consumer. It's wishcasting.
Crypto appeared on Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s radar not long after her presidential campaign fizzled out in 2019. The more she learned, she said, the more frustrated she became that lawmakers seemed content to leave it alone.
In 2025, Gillibrand was the lead Democratic sponsor of the GENIUS Act, which laid down federal rules for stablecoins. This year, she played much the same role for the CLARITY Act, the crypto industry’s great unfinished legislative project, pressing fellow Democrats for their votes. The sweeping bill would have moved much of digital-asset trading out of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s securities-law regime and into a new framework overseen by the chronically underfunded and much weaker Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
“In my opinion, the CLARITY Act was a financial crisis waiting to happen,” says Lee Reiners, a former Federal Reserve Bank of New York official. When FTX collapsed in 2022, the damage remained largely contained within crypto because digital assets still had relatively few connections to banks and traditional markets. CLARITY, Reiners argued, would have helped erase that separation: “Certainly, if CLARITY had passed, it would have supercharged the integration of crypto into the financial system.”
Gillibrand now finds herself in a crypto-related ethical morass. Her 22-year-old son, Theo, is the head of a start-up backed in part by crypto investors — including one who donates to his mother — that is seeking regulatory approval to bring a crypto-native trading product into conventional financial markets. Her campaign coffers are stuffed with crypto money, while former aides have rotated between her office and the industry.
Nate Weisberg reports on one of crypto’s most important Democratic allies and what happens if Gillibrand succeeds in making crypto easier to use and more deeply embedded in ordinary finance: nymag.visitlink.me/_kvMeE
Travis Bloom🛡️ retweeted
We were able to fine tune an open weight model (Qwen3.5-9B) on proprietary internal data at @coinbase, and it out performed frontier models, at much lower cost and speed, for a specialized task (fraud prevention in this case).
I think we'll see more of this pattern inside companies. The frontier models are amazing generalists. But increasingly you'll see specialist models out perform on more narrow tasks, either working on teams, or by themselves.
We're making it easy to fine tune models internally for our employees. We even have a skill for it in our internal harness that makes it easy to spin these up and start training them:
"/fine-tune-and-serve-llm I want to fine-tune Qwen for payments risk review. help me get started"
I imagine we'll have some backend services that could be replaced entirely by this new architecture.
Travis Bloom🛡️ retweeted
The midterms are about 5 weeks away.
Crypto isn't a partisan issue. It's about whether the next generation of financial technology gets built in America.
Before you vote, check where your candidates stand: standwithcrypto.org
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Here we go again! The WSJ is working on a story blaming Coinbase and me personally for the CLARITY Act not passing.
The Journal has repeatedly been hostile to CLARITY in its reporting, regurgitating bank lobby talking points, while I’ve spent years pushing for crypto legislation, but that’s not stopping them from trying to reverse the blame.
The boring TLDR: in January I opposed a draft of the bill going into a committee vote, because it needed a lot of work on DeFi, tokenization, CFTC authority, and stablecoin rewards. At the time, the bill had major issues that would have harmed crypto. Support was fractured, and it wasn’t passable. We worked with a number of parties who improved the bill and made it passable. All four of the items I called out were fixed in the draft that then went through the committee about four months later. I'm proud to have done it, and would do it again, because it helped create a better bill. One step of many along the way.
The final draft of CLARITY that went to the Senate was great, and I strongly supported it. I'll continue showing up for our customers and pushing for clear rules that treat crypto fairly, even if those who feel threatened by crypto try to plant false stories. It's a shame that the WSJ takes direction from bank lobbyists instead of reporting the truth, but luckily, people are smart enough to see through it these days, and it backfires on them every time.
Travis Bloom🛡️ retweeted
The WSJ wants a blame game. It got the story wrong, again. @coinbase and @brian_armstrong have consistently fought for CLARITY and for smart policy that benefits our industry and country. Let's look at the actual facts.
On CLARITY, Coinbase advocated fiercely for our country to finally have what has been missing: comprehensive market structure. On rewards, the Ag title, the Banking title, and the entire bill, they prioritized what would best serve our industry, consumer protection, and most importantly, our country. And on rewards, Coinbase, and our industry, made real concessions, and many of them, to give this critical legislation a shot at moving forward. I was in those rooms and meetings. The compromise was real, and Coinbase helped us get there.
I've worked with Coinbase on CLARITY, and the WSJ's reporting could not be further from the truth. Time and again, I saw Coinbase make substantive recommendations, negotiate in good faith, work with the industry, serve as a resource to members of Congress, and yes, make concessions to move this process forward.
Coinbase and Brian's advocacy did not happen overnight. When the prior SEC made regulation by enforcement its playbook against our industry, Coinbase fought back. They petitioned the SEC for real rules. When they were stonewalled, they took it to the Third Circuit, which called the agency's reasoning "conclusory." They saw the SEC's enforcement case against them dismissed with prejudice. They sued under FOIA to expose the debanking campaign. To suggest that Coinbase has not put our industry first, or is somehow to blame for the failed vote, is egregiously inaccurate.
Yes, CLARITY's failed vote was deeply disappointing, but our industry is more united today than ever. A piece like this is built to manufacture division right when we're locked arm in arm and focused on next steps, including supporting the regulatory agencies that are moving quickly to provide the clarity we need. It won't work.
Coinbase has led from the front for our industry, so has Brian. These are the facts.
wsj.com/finance/currencies/c…
Travis Bloom🛡️ retweeted
...Ready for it? Time for rulemaking by agencies.
Grateful to proactive @SECPaulSAtkins @ChairmanSelig who have already stepped up to lead and excited for what is yet to come.
Back to work.
Travis Bloom🛡️ retweeted
The CLARITY Act didn't advance in the Senate today, which was a disappointment. While it's possible bi-partisan conversations continue and it lives to fight another day, we can't wait on Congress anymore.
The SEC and CFTC have the tools they need to create clear rules under existing authority, and I expect will begin working on this in earnest.
So clarity is coming to crypto regardless.
And of course GENIUS is already the law of the land for stablecoins, which is even more permissive on rewards. There were some concessions we made on CLARITY that were tough to swallow, so perhaps it's for the best.
Crypto can't be uninvented. With clarity emerging through the regulators, we'll continue updating the financial system.
Travis Bloom🛡️ retweeted
With today's Senate action, we now know four things:
1/ Today's vote mattered. After years of negotiations, it was largely a partisan vote when the music stopped. That’s unfortunate because so many people on both sides of the aisle worked hard to improve this bill. And yet, the Democrats voted as a block against the most comprehensive, bipartisan bill ever written. Maybe there will be an opportunity to bring everybody back to the table with a commitment to get a bill done — I hope so.
2/ The banks did everything in their power to kill the Clarity Act. The big banks and the small banks worked together to hand @realDonaldTrump a loss and stop financial innovation and competition in America, and they successfully put several Republicans on record as anti-crypto. This was not a zero sum game, but they made it one.
3/ The GENIUS Act is the law of the land. Anybody who wants to earn more than 0.1% on their bank account should look at other options.
4/ There’s another path, and there's zero time to waste. @ChairmanSelig and @SECPaulSAtkins have spent more than a year preparing for this moment, and they are ready to put in place rules that will enable the future of finance. It's time to get it done.
Travis Bloom🛡️ retweeted
Today we find out who stands for American leadership in finance - and who doesn't.
The CLARITY Act delivers on every priority.
- Ethics: clear rules and real accountability
- Enforcement: full law enforcement support
- Protection: critical guardrails for everyday Americans
Huge thanks to all the Senators and millions of advocates for getting us to this point.