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Public information is only useful if someone turns it into action. A few days ago, I found Coattail Brokers through a post from Xeer. I spent the last few days reading the docs, studying the protocol and following how the ecosystem works. Today I can summarize it like this: Quick summary: Coattail Brokers turns public Congressional stock disclosures into automated onchain portfolios owned by NFTs. There are 1,776 Brokers, each with its own ERC-6551 wallet. But owning one isn't enough. To activate it, you burn 36,750 $COAT. ↓ $COAT trading pays a 1% fee ↓ Sell-side fees flow into the protocol ↓ 80% funds tokenized stock purchases ↓ The protocol follows the latest valid disclosed Congress basket ↓ Each active Broker earns a share ↓ Stocks can be claimed into the NFT's own wallet That's the core loop. And the rewards are not printed. They are funded by real trading volume. For sell-side fees: • 80% stock purchases • 10% project treasury • 10% $COAT buyback + burn On buys, the fee is taken in $COAT and burned directly. So the flywheel becomes: More $COAT volume ↓ More fees ↓ More stock purchases + burns ↓ More value distributed to active Brokers ↓ More incentive to activate ↓ More $COAT removed from supply There is another detail I think matters. If stocks remain inside the Broker's ERC-6551 wallet and you sell the NFT, those assets move with it. So two Brokers from the same collection could eventually become completely different assets. Same collection. Different portfolio. Different history. Different value. ↓ But there is one important clarification. "Whatever Congress buys, your Broker buys too" sounds like real-time copy trading. It isn't. Congressional trades are disclosed after the trade happens, sometimes with a significant delay. Coattail reads those public filings, maps the holdings to tokenized assets available on Robinhood Chain, and uses future fee-funded purchases to follow that basket. The real model is: Congress trade ↓ Public disclosure ↓ Coattail updates the basket ↓ Fees buy available tokenized stocks ↓ Active Brokers receive their share This isn't about front-running Congress. It's about turning public disclosures into an automated onchain strategy. $COAT launched with a fixed 1B supply. According to the docs: • 0% team allocation • Permanent liquidity lock • Permanent activation burns • Supply only decreases The dashboard currently shows 1,015 active Brokers and more than 123M $COAT burned. There is also a reset when the NFT changes hands. If an active Broker is sold, it turns off. Assets can travel with the NFT, but the new owner must burn $COAT again to reactivate it. That creates another recurring token sink. And the roadmap goes beyond Congress. The project plans to expand toward other disclosed and verifiable public signals, then eventually a vault where users could access similar strategies without owning the NFT. Of course, none of this guarantees success. The biggest dependency is simple: $COAT volume. Less trading volume ↓ Less fees ↓ Less stock buying ↓ Less value flowing to Brokers The docs say it directly: Rewards are volume-funded, not guaranteed yield. After digging through Coattail Brokers, I don't think the interesting question is whether politicians are good traders. It's whether public financial disclosures can become a reusable onchain primitive. If an NFT can automatically build a real stock portfolio from those signals... does it stop being a collectible and start becoming a financial account?