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Robinhood

US retail brokerage app offering commission-free trading in equities, options and crypto, plus prediction markets and tokenised stock products abroad.

Known aliases

  • HOOD
  • robinhood.com
  • Robinhood Crypto
  • Robinhood Markets
  • Robinhood Markets Inc.
  • Robinhood Wallet

Current stories

investOne report1 publisher

Lighter's EVM devnet lets smart contracts trade on its order engine with mocked proofs underneath

Lighter and Axiom launched an EVM devnet with one-second blocks that lets smart contracts place orders on Lighter's perpetuals and spot markets. Its docs list three limits, so teams can build order logic but cannot test recovery in full.

Publishers:crypto.news

Reality

Evidence50
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+15
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence60
investConfirmed3 publishers

Tokenized stock trading grew 55-fold in 2026 against a sixfold rise in value, DWF Labs finds

DWF Labs says tokenized equities reached $3.8 billion in early October, up 483% since January, as weekly DEX trading rose 55-fold to $2.54 billion. Usage grew faster than value, though only about 8% of the market is deployed in DeFi.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 23%
Operator
Operator 17%
Investor
Investor 60%

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption30
Hype gap+35
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence60
investOne report1 publisher

CoreWeave, Broadcom and Cerebras use the SEC's 30-day window to turn down OKXICE

CoreWeave, Broadcom and Cerebras have each objected to OKXICE trading tokenized versions of their shares, on a venue that treats 30 days of silence as consent. Davis Polk says a company can object only to a venue that sends it a notice. Each no covers one platform.

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap
Not scored
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence50
investConfirmed4 publishers

SEC clears Cboe to list $1 binary options on Coinbase, MARA and Robinhood metrics

SEC approved exchange-listed binary options that settle in cash on reported metrics at Coinbase, MARA and Robinhood. Chairman Paul Atkins said the order leaves CFTC oversight of differently structured products untouched, so event-style contracts now have a securities track and a CFTC track.

Perspective Coverage

4 publishers
Builder
Builder 11%
Operator
Operator 40%
Investor
Investor 49%

Reality

Evidence72
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+20
Incentives40
Confidence75
investOne report1 publisher

Tokenized stocks traded about $14.3 billion onchain outside the US in 30 days, roughly 3 to 4.8 times their estimated market cap

Tokenized US stocks took 99.3% of non-US onchain trading volume in a 30-day period, a total of $14.4 billion, cryptobriefing.com reported. Against an estimated market cap of $3 billion to $4.8 billion, the whole market changed hands three to nearly five times.

Reality

Evidence35
Adoption55
Hype gap+25
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence40
investOne report1 publisher

Tokenized ETFs added $531 of market value for every new wallet in 2026

Tokenized ETFs grew market cap 213% to $686.5 million in 2026, Token Terminal data show. Wallets multiplied about 51-fold over the same period, so the average balance fell from roughly $12,500 to about $765.

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption55
Hype gap+20
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence60
investOne report1 publisher

A straight-line 2026 ends with about 415 new unicorns, second to 2021 by at least 185

Crunchbase counted 38 new unicorns worth $71 billion in September, putting 2026 at 311 and on track for second place behind 2021. Step-ups at Cognition, Crusoe and Mistral total about three-quarters of what the newcomers added.

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+20
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence60
leadershipOne report1 publisher

Plus500's US super-app plan draws a Wise comparison on listing venue

Plus500 said on Tuesday it has bought US broker-dealer Hedge and will launch a US-only super-app in the first quarter of 2027. City AM's columnist sees an echo of Wise's move to a New York primary listing, but also notes no sign yet that Plus500 plans one.

Publishers:cityam.com

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+25
Incentives55
Confidence62
investConfirmed4 publishers

IMF finds $2.3 billion of tokenized stocks already price the overnight session

IMF research finds more than 85% of overnight moves in tokenized U.S. stocks show up in the listed shares within five minutes of the open. The fund still wants ownership rules settled before a market this thin grows much larger.

Perspective Coverage

4 publishers
Builder
Builder 26%
Operator
Operator 35%
Investor
Investor 39%

Reality

Evidence72
Adoption6
Hype gap+10
Incentives40
Confidence70
investOne report1 publisher

Agentic accounts cover about 0.5% of Robinhood's users against a forecast of agents as the norm by 2028

Robinhood says more than 150,000 customers had opened agentic accounts by late September, out of roughly 29 million users. Fortune attributes the count to the company, and it is the main evidence that agents will shape exchange order flow.

Publishers:fortune.com

Reality

Evidence35
Adoption5
Hype gap+45
Incentives55
Confidence40
investOne report1 publisher

Solana keeps over 91% of meme-token spot trading after Robinhood's launchpads slip to 5%

Solana takes over 91% of meme-token spot trading on major DEXs, according to Cryptopolitan. Robinhood's share is back to 5% after its August launchpad push, and Solana has led app revenue for ten straight quarters.

Reality

Evidence40
Adoption72
Hype gap+20
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence45
investOne report1 publisher

Nearly all of the $3.4 billion in weekly tokenized stock volume sits on Solana

Solana accounts for $3.32 billion of the $3.4 billion in weekly tokenized stock DEX volume, Crypto Briefing reported. Robinhood Chain's own early daily average of $29.7 million works out to about $208 million a week, a small slice of the total.

Reality

Evidence35
Adoption45
Hype gap+40
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence40
investConfirmed2 publishers

Robinhood Chain keeps $1 billion in deposits as daily transactions fall 42%

Robinhood Chain's daily transactions have fallen more than 40% since mid-September, barely three months after the network went live. Robinhood paid customers' swap fees through the whole slide, so the money users still keep parked on the chain is the better test of it.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 25%
Operator
Operator 32%
Investor
Investor 43%

Reality

Evidence70
Adoption55
Hype gap+10
Incentives65
Confidence68
investConfirmed14 publishers

The SEC's five-year exemption hands issuers a veto over which stocks a venue may tokenize

A September 17 order lets qualifying platforms trade fully backed tokenized NMS stocks without registering as exchanges or dealers. Every stock takes 30 days of notice to an issuer that is free to refuse it.

Perspective Coverage

14 publishers
Builder
Builder 25%
Operator
Operator 40%
Investor
Investor 35%

Reality

Evidence80
Adoption12
Hype gap+40
Incentives60
Confidence70
investOne report1 publisher

Citrini Research skips Bitcoin in a crypto basket built on AI agents moving money

Citrini Research's latest crypto basket leaves out Bitcoin and backs the blockchain infrastructure that AI agents could use to move money. Citrini expects those agents to pull deposits from banks paying uncompetitive rates, and the basket is built to collect that flow.

Reality

Evidence25
Adoption30
Hype gap+40
Incentives70
Confidence30
investOne report1 publisher

Robinhood's margin loans more than quadruple in two years to $21.6 billion

Robinhood's margin book hit a record $21.6 billion in the second quarter, up 127% from a year earlier, CNBC reported. Retail leverage is growing fast, and whether it can set off forced selling in a drawdown depends on how bunched those loans are in single stocks.

Publishers:cnbc.com

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption70
Hype gap+10
Incentives60
Confidence50
investOne report1 publisher

Robinhood's talks with T. Rowe Price point tokenized stock wrappers toward active funds

Robinhood is exploring a Stock Token with T. Rowe Price, the $1.9 trillion asset manager, that would track an actively managed ETF. It would be Robinhood's first token on a fund whose holdings a manager picks, and board approval, regulatory clearance and filings still stand between the talks and anything an allocator can buy.

Publishers:crypto.news

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption10
Hype gap+15
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence50
investConfirmed3 publishers

Bitcoin with exposed public keys grows 3.5 times faster than new supply

Glassnode's Rafael Schultze-Kraft counts 31.2% of circulating Bitcoin behind exposed public keys, up 222,000 BTC since May while supply grew 64,000 BTC. Exchanges supplied most of that rise, and a venue can cut its share by moving reserves to fresh addresses.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 28%
Operator
Operator 40%
Investor
Investor 32%

Reality

Evidence60
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+25
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence60
investOne report1 publisher

Most new tokenized-commodity wallets land on chains holding 5% of the sector's value

Wallets holding tokenized commodities rose to 452,931 from about 126,000 a year ago, according to rwa.xyz data. Most of the new arrivals are opening small accounts on cheaper chains, while about 95% of the sector's $5.16 billion stays on Ethereum.

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption40
Hype gap+20
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence50

Earlier coverage

  1. Citrini's 79-page report backs tokenization's fee collectors over bitcoin and ether

    Invest · October 8, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers

  2. Robinhood puts $25 million of company capital into bitcoin, about 0.025% of its market value

    Invest · October 7, 2026 · Confirmed5 publishers

  3. Bitcoin gained 38% while CLARITY's odds of passing fell from 39% to 18%

    Invest · September 20, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers

  4. Webull shares fall 20% after House panel cites national security risk from China ties

    Invest · October 7, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers

  5. Gate wants its 60 million users to buy coffee with Nvidia stock after the market closes

    Invest · October 7, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers

  6. CFTC proposes a narrower crypto exchange license built on its power over leveraged trades

    Invest · October 5, 2026 · Confirmed14 publishers

  7. Robinhood Chain's memecoin pairs shed 96% of a $443 million-a-day trade

    Invest · October 6, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers

  8. Ondo sells 24/7 exposure to a pre-IPO AI company through an unnamed issuer's notes

    Invest · October 6, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers

  9. ARK backs Cathie Wood's agent-spending thesis with $24.7 million of CoreWeave shares

    Invest · October 3, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers

  10. CFTC tries to settle its prediction-market fight with the states by redefining swaps

    Invest · September 30, 2026 · Confirmed5 publishers

  11. Robinhood seeks approval to trade selected US stocks through the 48 weekend hours its market closes

    Invest · September 29, 2026 · Confirmed4 publishers

  12. OG.com asks the CFTC to list never-expiring stock futures at 15.05% margin

    Invest · September 27, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers

  13. Baltimore sues Kalshi and Polymarket, and pulls Coinbase, Robinhood and Webull in with it

    Invest · August 15, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers

  14. Robinhood matched BNB Chain's 500,000 tokenized-stock holders in about six weeks

    Invest · August 16, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers

  15. With CLARITY stalled, crypto market structure shifts to a White House table and a one-man CFTC

    Invest · August 16, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers

  16. Ninth Circuit hands Nevada the power to enforce gaming law against Kalshi's sports markets

    Invest · August 29, 2026 · Confirmed4 publishers

  17. Robinhood's authorized participant prints the tokenized HIMS corner out of existence

    Invest · September 3, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers

  18. Standard Chartered sets 66x ARB target for 2030, betting on tokenization growth

    Invest · September 15, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers

  19. Robinhood must rebuild its stock tokens as real shares to reach US users by 2027

    Invest · September 21, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers

  20. Robinhood's August event volume ran 64% above its non-World-Cup pace

    Invest · September 21, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers

  21. Bernstein's $10 trillion prediction-market forecast pegs financial assets' half on a 0.5% capture rate

    Invest · September 23, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers

  22. USDG traded 36 times its pooled DEX liquidity in September

    Invest · September 20, 2026 · One report1 publisher