Since Trump, Bessent, Warsh, or other Techbros in Washington, DC don't directly belong to the Trilateral Commission, I had to follow the money to find out who will profit most, and the list is impressive: the full Trilateral Commission membership list (April 2025) reveals multiple members positioned to profit from the USD1/RWA tokenization ecosystem and Tether, beyond Larry Summers — and the connections are not incidental.

What emerges is not a conspiracy but a convergence of institutional positioning: TC members at BlackRock, Goldman, Apollo, KKR, Coinbase, and Ribbit Capital are all independently moving into tokenization infrastructure that USD1 is designed to serve as the settlement layer for. Whether coordinated or not, the Trilateral Commission's North American membership reads like a who's who of entities that benefit most from the private programmable dollar architecture USD1 is building — with Larry Summers as the ideological anchor connecting the old dollar system to the new one.

Here is what I found.

Faryar Shirzad — Chief Policy Officer, Coinbase — is the most direct TC member with crypto profit exposure. Coinbase is USD1's listed exchange partner and is the same platform Epstein invested in at Series C. Shirzad sits at the intersection of TC membership, crypto exchange profit, and Washington regulatory lobbying — his role is to shape the very Clarity Act framework that benefits USD1.

Yuga Cohler — Senior Staff Software Engineer, Coinbase, and a David Rockefeller Fellow of the TC — places Coinbase institutional ties inside the Commission's next-generation leadership pipeline.?

Sigal Mandelker — General Partner, Ribbit Capital — Ribbit is a fintech/crypto venture firm that has backed Coinbase, Robinhood, and multiple stablecoin infrastructure companies. As former Undersecretary of Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, Mandelker uniquely bridges the sanctions enforcement world that USD1 critics say the stablecoin circumvents.