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Jeff Handler is Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer of OpenTrade, a London-based stablecoin yield infrastructure company.
He has worked in commercial roles in financial technology throughout his career, specialising in blockchain implementations for supply chain finance, payments and identity. He began at PwC and later worked at Netki and at the Marco Polo Network, where he led large multinational credit facilities.
He then joined Centre, the Circle and Coinbase joint venture that governed USDC, and served as its Solutions Architect. He co-founded OpenTrade in 2023 with David Sutter and Tom Niermann. OpenTrade lets fintechs, neobanks and exchanges offer yield products backed by real-world assets. His current focus is the commercial side of the business, including partnerships with fintechs and exchanges, and he represents OpenTrade at industry events.
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Key points
- Stablecoins evolved from crypto trading infrastructure into a tool for non-crypto-native fintechs seeking efficient digital dollar solutions.
- Trust in stablecoins depends on regulatory frameworks and reserve backing, not solely on legislation like the Genius Act.
- OpenTrade enables financial platforms to offer on-chain yield on stablecoin holdings without requiring users to off-ramp to traditional banking.
- Stablecoin yield infrastructure addresses the opportunity cost of holding idle digital assets and improves user retention for financial platforms.
- Real-world asset-backed returns on stablecoins can match traditional bank yields while maintaining the efficiency benefits of on-chain settlement.
In their own words
“Capital preservation seems to be the name of the game right now, as it should be.”
“There are literally tens of millions of individual users, particularly in Latin America, with a US dollar account earning interest.”
