Robinhood Goes All-In on Digital Assets with a Slew of Initiatives

Robinhood built its brand by making investing more accessible, a strategy the fintech is now extending to crypto. At a recent event, Robinhood announced a slate of crypto initiatives, including tokenized stock trading, expanded perpetual futures, agentic crypto wallets for U.S. consumers, and plans to expand into new markets. Perhaps most notably, the firm unveiled […] The post Robinhood Goe

Robinhood’s CEO says the U.K. should look to the U.S. to increase retail stock ownership. “Think of it as similar to where the US was 30 to 40 years ago,” Vlad Tenev said in a Bloomberg Television interview in London published Thursday (July 2). He cited things like employer-sponsored 401(k) pensions and the White House initiatives to give newborns equity ownership. […] The post Robinhood CE

Robinhood Markets has launched the public mainnet of Robinhood Chain, a Layer 2 blockchain that the company said is purpose-built for real-world assets. Robinhood Chain is built using the Arbitrum Platform to institutional standards, is natively connected to Robinhood’s onchain users, and has deep integrations with Alchemy, BitGo and Chainlink, the company said in a Wednesday (July 1) press releas