Travis Bloom🛡️

Eng lead @coinbase for political advocacy and Coinbase Advisor. Doing my part to help create more economic freedom.

[Travis Bloom🛡️ @TravisBloom]

Your right to publish code is enshrined in the Bill of Rights. We must protect free speech.

[Neeraj K. Agrawal @NeerajKA]

Commissioner @HesterPeirce lists "code is speech" as the first principle guiding her thinking https://t.co/PFsEPq1Wtz

[Travis Bloom🛡️ @TravisBloom]

Like clockwork

[Will @WClemente]

Almost 4 years later and getting ready to hear the obituaries once again while valuation readings enter deep value. Time is a flat circle.

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

Thanks @DashaBurns for the great conversation. We need to pass the CLARITY Act now more than ever: strong rules to protect consumers, unlock innovation, and build the future of finance here in America.

[Travis Bloom🛡️ @TravisBloom]

2026 is wild

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

@gmoneyNFT Would you help with the crypto vote?

[Travis Bloom🛡️ @TravisBloom]

The “I bought” @cburniske tweet in 2 months is gonna be an instant green candle

[Travis Bloom🛡️ @TravisBloom]

We either seize the future or cede it to our economic adversaries.

I choose CLARITY.

[Senator Cynthia Lummis @SenLummis]

America built the dollar-dominated financial system that has anchored global stability for a century. The Clarity Act ensures we build the next one. The time to act is now — before Beijing decides it will.

[Travis Bloom🛡️ @TravisBloom]

Reliable MCPs are the trick to 10x productivity at large companies. In the last 6 months @coinbase feels like it reached an inflection point.

The kind of questions that used to take a week to answer can now be resolved with a 20 min Claude session + brief doc for alignment.

[Travis Bloom🛡️ @TravisBloom]

Based

[jesse.base.eth @jessepollak]

the agentic economy is here

and it lives on base

[Travis Bloom🛡️ @TravisBloom]

This. Every BTC maxi who still doesn’t realize how bullish stables are for BTC are ngmi

[Miles 🌞 @milessuter]

@CashApp @Square @Bitkey @blocks We like to think about bitcoin as Money 2.0

Fiat is 1.0

And Stablecoins are a bridge between the two. They offer clear improvements and customer benefits from the legacy rails.

However, they don’t replace or compete with bitcoin.

[Travis Bloom🛡️ @TravisBloom]

Based

[Paul Graham @paulg]

@romlib_ Crypto is a legit and indeed inevitable technology. Usually such things are net positive.

[Faryar Shirzad 🛡️ @faryarshirzad]

A piece from @greg_ip in @WSJ today asks whether stablecoins are a risk to the economy because they are "private money." It's a fair question, but the framing skips over how the US monetary system has actually worked for 160 years.
"Private money" isn't the exception in our system — it's the rule. Roughly 90% of M2 is privately issued: commercial bank deposits and money market fund shares. Each carries different risks and is regulated commensurately — banks by Basel, capital, FDIC, and stress testing; MMFs by SEC liquidity rules; and now GENIUS stablecoins by a purpose-built federal regime.
The right question isn't "public or private." It's whether the regulation matches the risk. GENIUS does.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Warren's war on crypto was a pure own-goal by the Democrats. It achieved nothing, and it cost them enormously by alienating a large fraction of a powerful group who'd previously supported them. Look at the change from 2020 to 2024.

[Danielle Fong 🔆 @DanielleFong]

claude navigating me around the code base

[Travis Bloom🛡️ @TravisBloom]

Except for Bitcoin*

[Balaji @balajis]

The digital divide has reversed.
Digital is cheap, ubiquitous, often fake.
Physical is the premium product now.

[Travis Bloom🛡️ @TravisBloom]

AI has made internet trolling exponentially more entertaining

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Improved it!

[Travis Bloom🛡️ @TravisBloom]

This tweet alone bumps @AnthropicAI's market cap a few hundred million.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.

[Senator Tim Scott @SenatorTimScott]

Clear as ice.

[Chris Dixon @cdixon]

The CLARITY Act has now passed out of the Senate Banking Committee with bipartisan backing and moves to a full Senate vote - a historic moment for crypto entrepreneurs and American consumers.

Crypto is not a red or blue issue. It is about whether the next generation of financial and internet infrastructure gets built in the United States.

Thank you to @SenatorTimScott and @SenLummis for your leadership on the committee, to @BankingGOP, @Sen_Alsobrooks, and @RubenGallego for their support, and to all of the staff who have worked tirelessly to get to this point.

It’s time to pass CLARITY.

[Travis Bloom🛡️ @TravisBloom]

Code is free speech, and we protect free speech in America

[Peter Van Valkenburgh @valkenburgh]

HUGE.

Looks like we got a non-partisan vote out of Senate Banking with the BRCA still intact. I'm thrilled. The last minute compromise reflects Coin Center's analysis from last January, there were some steps forward since then and then back but we are feeling very comfortable.