OpenTrade is an institutional stablecoin-yield and real-world-asset infrastructure platform that enables fintechs to offer compliant, on-chain yield products. OpenTrade's Twitter Score is 26 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #37,752 (top 10%) among 498,071 tracked accounts.
OpenTrade was co-founded by Dave Sutter as CEO, Jeff Handler as Chief Commercial Officer, and Tom Niermann as CTO. The platform is built on a fork of Circle Research's open-source Perimeter Protocol for USDC-based credit applications, and launched a tokenized U.S. Treasury Bill product in September 2023 to support secured USDC lending. OpenTrade has since expanded into a permissionless protocol layer and a Curation+ vault-curation service for RWA and on-chain yield.
OpenTrade surpassed $200 million in total value locked and processed over $250 million in transaction volume in 2025. The platform has raised over $30 million in total funding, including a $17 million strategic round in May 2026. Backers include a16z Crypto, Mercury Fund, Notion Capital, AlbionVC, Circle Ventures, Draper Dragon, CMCC Global, Ryze Labs, Polygon Ventures, Kronos Ventures, Kyber Ventures, and Outlier Ventures.
OpenTrade works with several infrastructure and service partners, including Figment, Plume, Five Sigma as its off-chain operations provider, and Zodia Custody as an approved digital-asset custodian. The account has published 2,803 posts and has been mentioned by 91 accounts a total of 226 times, reflecting its presence within the on-chain yield and RWA ecosystem.
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The accounts that follow OpenTrade include 94 founders, 27 angel investors, 41 influencers and 7 VCs, among them Mario Nawfal, Jill Gunter, Matthew Graham, DEGEN NEWS, Avalanche and Laurence.