A P2P marketplace where every deal is verified by an expert, agent, or friend.
Hopscotch.trade is Facebook Marketplace if it didn't suck. 60-second P2P verified commerce on Telegram, Discord, and World.
Over 10 years ago, the government labeled me one of the top hackers in the US. That journey taught me one thing: Trust is the most expensive friction in the world. Today, marketplaces are broken. In the US alone, $23B is lost to fraud annually because platforms spend less than 3% of their revenue on dispute resolution. Users are forced to identify bots, meet strangers in parking lots, and wait for bank wires just to buy and sell stuff. It’s absurd that we have self-driving cars and orbital rockets, yet it still takes six days and three 'ghostings' to turn a slightly used Mac Mini into a stock portfolio.
Hopscotch is our way of helping people trust each other again.
We condense a week-long headache into a single group chat interaction.
The Trigger: Snap a photo of an item (like a Mac Mini) in a Telegram group or Discord server and tag @HopscotchDevBot.
The Trust Layer: Every deal is secured by a "Verifier" -> an expert, agent, or mutual friend, acting as a decentralized escrow.
The Settlement: Once the deal is published, paid for, and settled, the seller receives assets (like USDC or Netflix shares) directly in their wallet.
Arbitrum: We leverage Arbitrum’s low-latency execution to handle escrow logic and instant settlement, ensuring the cost of "trust" remains near zero.
Robinhood: By bridging P2P sales directly into Robinhood-compatible assets, we allow users to liquidate physical goods into digital equities with minimal friction.
Omnichannel: Our bot lives in Telegram, Discord, and World App, meeting users where their social reputation already exists.
Traditional marketplaces fail because they try to create trust from scratch between strangers. Hopscotch borrows the trust you already have in your private chats and channels. Trust is no longer the policy. It's the product. We aren't just building a store; we are creating a world where your trust is your currency.
<ol><li><p><strong>Coordinated the deployment of partner contracts on Robinhood Testnet</strong> to support our core Settlement Layer on trusted infrastructure.</p></li><li><p><strong>Upgraded our Escrow Indexer to monitor Robinhood Testnet </strong>to ensure transaction visibility and provide users high reliability.</p></li><li><p><strong>Upgraded our frontend and backend logic to support Robinhood stock tokens as settlement options </strong>to bridge the gap between equity portfolios and real-world purchasing power for every user.</p></li><li><p><strong>Integrated Web2 stock price data ahead of Chainlink support </strong>to enable live market pricing today while maintaining a clear path to fully decentralized data.</p></li><li><p><strong>Upgraded AI agents to support natural language phrasing for stocks</strong> and<strong> </strong>allow users to trade physical items for equities through simple prompts.</p></li><li><p><strong>Opened our dev environment to allow live demos </strong>and<strong> </strong>showcase our full-stack marketplace readiness to fellow builders, strategic partners, and prospective investors.</p></li><li><p><strong>Completed our first end-to-end, escrow-based purchase on Robinhood Testnet </strong>to validate the world’s first direct goods-for-stocks exchange flow ahead of our April 4th launch. <a href="https://explorer.testnet.chain.robinhood.com/tx/0xaa59643aa3c7ef471c8e5a6e87da91f69b430fc935584e2f1bb2960c8c2fde64">https://explorer.testnet.chain.robinhood.com/tx/0xaa59643aa3c7ef471c8e5a6e87da91f69b430fc935584e2f1bb2960c8c2fde64</a></p></li></ol>
<ul><li><p>Our journey began with a 2021 pre-seed raise led by Dragonfly. We took what was their leanest investment and turned it into a multi-year runway. By prioritizing resourcefulness over burn, we’ve successfully navigated several market cycles and architectural pivots to reach our upcoming beta launch.</p></li><li><p>We’ve pivoted from trading (and payments) to a full-stack marketplace, proving our ability to adapt and find product-market fit. We fight for every inch of progress -> whether it’s optimizing infrastructure credits or securing strategic partnerships with smart people, businesses, and capital.</p></li><li><p>We will open our seed round after we launch our beta on April 4th. A requirement to invest is completing a verified P2P trade. Any member of our team will facilitate this first transaction with you. No item is too small (we can ship you a $0.01 paperclip).</p></li></ul>
