Robinhood
Every story this desk has filed under Robinhood, most recent first.
Tokenized Equities Did $3.8bn This Year and Ondo's Share of Issuance Halved
A DWF Labs report puts weekly spot volume on decentralised exchanges at $2.54bn, 55 times the January figure, with Ondo's issuer share down from 56 percent to 26 percent as Binance and Robinhood gained.
AMC's Chief Executive Says the Cinema Chain Will Not Let Robinhood Tokenize Its Shares
Adam Aron said AMC would withhold consent for Robinhood stock tokens in the United States. Under the SEC's new framework, an issuer's objection is enough to keep a token off the board.
Robinhood Turns the Brokerage App Into a Feed
Eligible US customers can now publish charts and portfolio allocations to other Robinhood users, with the desktop version of the feature promised in the coming weeks.
Robinhood's $25bn Crypto Pile Is Customer Property, Not a Treasury
Crypto Briefing reports that the roughly $25bn of digital assets sitting at Robinhood is held for brokerage customers, not bought by the company for its own balance sheet. The distinction matters for anyone counting corporate demand.
Robinhood Says the SEC's Innovation Exemption Is a Constraint, Not a Door, for Stock Tokens
Johann Kerbrat, who runs Robinhood's crypto arm, told The Block the firm is still working through the terms of the SEC's innovation exemption before it can bring tokenized stocks to American users.
Robinhood Puts 10x Crypto Perps, AI Agents and Weekend Stock Trading in One App
At its HOOD Summit, Robinhood said it is rolling out perpetual futures with up to 10x leverage through its own derivatives arm and Bitstamp, adding user-built AI trading agents and extending US equity trading into the weekend.
Robinhood's Chief Executive Says Crypto Event Contracts Are Already Beating Sports Bets
Vlad Tenev told an audience that contracts on crypto outcomes are outpacing sports wagers on the broker's prediction markets, and could become its largest category within a few years.
Wall Street Analysts Name the Firms That Gain From the SEC's Tokenised Stock Opening
Goldman Sachs and Citizens told clients the SEC's five-year exemption puts custody, tokenisation infrastructure and stablecoin settlement in play, with Coinbase, Robinhood and Circle named as the near-term beneficiaries.
Two Robinhood Engineers Charged Over Trades Placed Before Listing News
Federal prosecutors say two engineers at Robinhood took positions in tokens on Hyperliquid ahead of the company's own listing announcements between 2025 and 2026, each clearing more than $50,000.
Robinhood Says Redemptions and Votes Are Coming to Its Stock Tokens
Chief executive Vlad Tenev and crypto chief Johann Kerbrat both said in-kind redemption and voting rights are on the roadmap for Robinhood Stock Tokens, after criticism of what holders actually own.
Robinhood's Crypto Volume Rebounded 61% in August, and Most of It Was Not the App
Monthly operating data shows crypto trading volume up 61% from July but still 38% lower than a year earlier. Bitstamp, the exchange Robinhood acquired, accounted for $10.1bn of the month's total while app trading fell 46% year on year.
Tenev Draws the Line: A Company Should Not Get a Veto Over Its Own Stock Token
Robinhood's chief executive told CNBC that public companies should not hold veto power over third-party securities referencing their shares, and conceded that holders of the tokens have no voting rights.
Robinhood Buys Into Its Own Clearing House for Prediction Markets
Robinhood began routing football event contracts to Crypto.com's CFTC-regulated exchange on Tuesday and will take equity stakes in both Crypto.com and OG.com, the prediction-market venue being spun out at a $5 billion valuation.
Robinhood Books Its First Underwriting Role, on the Oura IPO
The brokerage best known for retail order flow and, lately, for a layer 2 chain of its own has taken an underwriting seat on the initial public offering of the smart-ring maker Oura, according to Crypto Briefing.
The Row Over One Cinema Chain's Token Became an Argument About How Stocks Should Go Onchain At All
Hayden Adams likened Robinhood's and Ondo's stock tokens to early stablecoins. Dinari's co-founder called the same instruments worse for investors than ordinary shares. Three competing designs are chasing $2.91bn of tokenized equity.
Robinhood Order Flow Is Now 17% of a Perp Exchange's Daily Volume
Lighter's token rose 13% to $4.21 and has doubled in thirty days, while perpetuals volume across the sector fell 30% in a week. The routed flow, not the sector, explains the divergence.
AMC's Chief Executive Says the Company Has Nothing to Do With Its Own Stock Token
Adam Aron publicly distanced AMC from tokenized shares trading against its ticker, reopening the question of what a stock token is when the issuer never agreed to it.