Robinhood has added $25 million of bitcoin to its balance sheet, crypto chief Johann Kerbrat said, a stake worth about 0.025% of its market value. The company's larger tie to the asset runs through trading, where August crypto volume reached $17.5 billion.
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- Builder 25%
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- Operator 22%
- Investor
- Investor 53%
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- Evidence60
- Adoption25
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives60
- Confidence65
Robinhood Wallet adds Arcus, which has logged $5 billion in spot and perpetual trading volume
Robinhood Wallet now routes Stock Token swaps through Arcus, a dYdX-team exchange reporting more than $5 billion of volume since its July 1 launch. That total also counts perpetuals still in beta, so the spot demand Robinhood is connecting to is smaller than the headline figure, by an amount nobody has published.
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- Evidence30
- Adoption35
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives75
- Confidence40
Robinhood's crypto head expects SEC volume caps to bind a US stock-token launch
Robinhood's Johann Kerbrat says its offshore stock-token turnover is already high enough to hit some caps in the SEC's September 17 Innovation Exemption. The larger obstacle is the product itself, a Jersey-issued debt note the order excludes, so a US version must first be rebuilt to carry full shareholder rights.
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- Evidence45
- Adoption25
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives60
- Confidence45
Arbitrum's DAO booked 35% of its July income from one tenant's first full month
Robinhood Chain's record $3.75m fee day matters to Arbitrum only through a 10% licensing clause that already produced $360,000 in July, better than a third of the DAO's income, at gross margins above 97%.
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- Evidence44
- Adoption67
- Hype gap+31
- Incentives71
- Confidence46
Robinhood built a chain for tokenized stocks and got a memecoin venue instead
More than 99% of Robinhood Chain's volume is memecoin trading, while tokenized equities on it sat at $10.68 million in July. That gap is the number to watch.
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- Evidence52
- Adoption63
- Hype gap+40
- Incentives72
- Confidence47