Jeff Handler

By his own account he worked at PwC and Netki and focused on blockchain implementations in supply chain finance, payments and identity.⁠[1]

He says he served as vice president of business innovation and global head of special projects at Marco Polo Network, working on the sale and implementation of large credit facilities with multinational companies.⁠[1]

In September 2020, as Marco Polo’s global head of special projects and network adoption strategy, he discussed joint propositions with Pole Star for shipping, including bunker fuel financing, saying, “Bunker fuel purchases constitute the largest operating expense for any ship owner and operator.”⁠[2]

In February 2023 he co-founded OpenTrade as chief commercial officer.⁠[3]

In August 2025 he appeared on the BlockHash podcast as OpenTrade’s chief commercial officer, discussing yield-based stablecoins, the U.S. GENIUS Act and use cases in Colombia.⁠[4]

In November 2025 OpenTrade launched a stablecoin yield product using Figment’s SolanaSolanaSolana is a proof-of-stake (PoS) public blockchain designed for high throughput and low latency, with SOL as its native token; it was developed by Solana Labs and launched Mainnet Beta in March 2020. It is known for design choices such as its Proof of History clock and parallel execution, suffered several network-wide outages in its early years, and became one of the crypto industry’s focal points in events including the FTX collapse, U.S. SEC lawsuits, and the listing of Solana ETFs.Open the full entry staking, hedged with SOL perpetuals and custodied by Crypto.comCrypto.comCrypto.com is a cryptocurrency trading and payments platform founded in 2016, formerly known as Monaco and co-founded by Kris Marszalek and others. It offers a trading app, an exchange, crypto payment cards, custody, derivatives and prediction markets, and is closely associated with the Cronos blockchain and its CRO token. It is known for large sports naming-rights sponsorships and holds licenses in many jurisdictions worldwide.Open the full entry, targeting about 15 percent, variable and not guaranteed. He said “any company with stablecoins can access a new category of yield options.”⁠[5]

In February 2026 he described OpenTrade as more like a SaaS company than a decentralized protocol and said “tokenizing something just for the sake of having a token on a blockchain is largely at best an academic exercise.”⁠[6]

He previously worked at Centre, the consortium co-founded by Circle and Coinbase to govern USDC.⁠[7]

Centre has since been dissolved.⁠[8]