what's robinhood?
Robinhood Markets, Inc. is a financial technology company that operates the Robinhood platform, providing commission-free trading of stocks, ETFs, options, and cryptocurrencies to retail investors. Its purpose is to democratize access to financial markets through a user-friendly mobile app, making investing accessible to beginners and experienced traders alike. Key features include 24/7 crypto trading, support for assets like Solana (SOL), Zora (ZORA), and stablecoins, as well as staking for Ethereum and Solana. The platform has expanded into the EU with tokenized stocks on Arbitrum and plans for its own Layer 2 blockchain. Recently, it listed the ZORA token, boosting its crypto offerings amid growing adoption of Solana-based projects like USDG stablecoin integrations. Robinhood's stock (HOOD) has seen parabolic growth, reflecting strong market interest in its crypto expansions.
Robinhood reached 27 million funded customers after 12 years of operation.
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x.com/robinhoodappReached 27 million funded customers after 12 years of operation.
Launched crypto perpetual futures trading with up to 10x leverage for BTC, ETH, SOL, and XRP on Bitstamp by Robinhood platform.
Listed RAY token for trading on Robinhood Crypto.
Lists ORCA token on the platform.
Partners with US Treasury and BNY Mellon for Trump Accounts for children.
Bernstein maintains an Outperform rating on Robinhood stock following a roughly 60% crash in crypto stocks.
Reached $25 billion in crypto trading volume for February 2026, representing a 74% year-over-year increase.
Platform assets reached $314 billion as of Q1 2026.
Approved a $1.5 billion share repurchase program, adding $1.1 billion in incremental capacity from Q1 2026.
Offers HOOD Rewards Season incentive program with $1M in total rewards for brokerage and crypto transfers, plus prize drawings including cash for house down payments, ending on 2026-03-23.
Ventures Fund I invested $35M, including $14.6M in Stripe and $20M in ElevenLabs.
Experienced a 295,000% increase in active addresses on Ethereum Mainnet during the week ending March 16, 2026.
Listed as a fastest growing issuer of Mag7 tokenized equities on Solana by xStocksFi, alongside Ondo Finance.
CEO Vlad Tenev to appear on Bankless podcast March 16, 2026, discussing tokenized stocks, 24/7 markets, prediction markets, perpetuals, private market access, DeFi vision, social features, and strategy.
Integrated Sui into its platform alongside Circle.
40% of assets are held in passive products, with this share expected to grow over time.
Debuted the HOOD card.
Listed EIGEN token for US retail investors.
Robinhood shares gained 8.5% to $82.50 as crypto-linked equities rallied alongside Bitcoin's breakout above $73K.
Upgraded Gold member benefits and Robinhood Strategies.
Launched invitation-only Platinum credit card offering 5% cashback on dining and flights, 10% on hotels and cars, plus TSA, health, and travel credits, with a $695 annual fee.
Launched Banking with Pinwheel as direct deposit partner on April 14, 2026; deposits doubled to $800M since February 10.
Launched an advisor network for independent financial advisors.
Ark Invest purchased $12 million HOOD shares on March 3, 2026, bringing total stake to $352 million.
Ark Invest purchased approximately $16 million worth of Robinhood shares.
Johann Kerbrat spoke at Blockworks DAS conference in NYC week of 2026-03-24, discussing direct token issuance and retail access to private markets not tied to net worth.
Integrated with Jupiter's trading engine.
Mentioned as one of the platforms crypto KOLs use for trading equities, with 8 out of 55 survey respondents reporting use of the platform.
Discussed Robinhood Chain launch strategy with Coy Garrison and Seong Seog Lee on Unchained's DEX in the City podcast.
Rolled out 24/5 stocks and ETFs trading.
Listed CC token for spot trading on February 27, 2026.
Gained more than 5% in stock price during U.S. market opening on February 25, 2026.
Added ADA (Cardano) trading on Bitstamp by Robinhood in Singapore.
Acquired Bitstamp in June 2025.
Launched Robinhood Ventures Fund I for private market investments including Oura, without accreditation or high minimums, and a platform for pre-IPO stocks.
Listed TRX (TRON) for trading on Bitstamp by Robinhood platform.
Processed over 47 million transactions on its testnet with average block times of 100ms.
Featured in an EthereumDenver panel discussion where Johann Kerbrat discussed the rationale and capabilities enabled by launching its own blockchain.
Launched public venture fund (ticker: RVI) on February 17, 2026, with a 90 basis points expense ratio, priced at $25, and raised $658M with stakes in Databricks and Revolut, trading at a discount to net asset value.
Chose Ethereum as the blockchain to build on due to its decentralization, reliability, and battle-tested infrastructure.
Integrated with Alchemy, Chainlink, LayerZero, TRM for AML and security, the tweeting company, and LI.FI for cross-chain connectivity, routing, and execution.
Robinhood Chain Testnet reached 80,000+ users.
Robinhood Chain Testnet reached $41M+ in activity.
CEO Vlad Tenev joins CFTC's 35-member Innovation Advisory Committee as of 2026-02-13, advising on crypto and prediction market regulation, alongside Coinbase, Uniswap Labs, Ripple, and Kraken.
Vertically integrated a futures and derivatives prediction market exchange in a joint venture with Susquehanna.
Launched Robinhood Social in beta, a social trading feature for copy trading politicians and traditional finance whales, sharing trade comments via Clicker network; hosts product event March 4, 2026.
Outlined 2026 goals to tokenize private-company shares, build prediction markets, and expand family finance to include partners, children, and parents.
Integrated with Lighter_xyz ($LIT) protocol.
Launched tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs in Europe on Arbitrum One in June 2025, with nearly 2,000 stocks and ETFs, over $16M in value, for 1M+ EU users.
Launched Chain testnet on 2026-02-11 as an Arbitrum Orbit L2 for tokenized stocks, RWAs, and onchain financial services, with faucet live April 4, 2026, sharing 10% revenue with Arbitrum. Partners Arbitrum and Offchain Labs at Arbitrum Open House London event, providing mentorship.
Has 13 million monthly active users (MAUs).
Trades at 31x price-to-earnings, down from 164x peak, with 52% year-over-year revenue growth and 76% year-over-year EBITDA growth. Also trades at 15.2x price-to-sales.
Sponsored L2 track founder program up to $1.8M across NYC, Dubai, London, Singapore, with $340k NYC grants for Arbitrum Founder House March 6-8, 2026. Named Bondon Credit and Tilt Protocol L2 track winners March 12, 2026.
Received a $200M investment from Sequoia Capital led by Andrew Reed during the first week of COVID in March 2020.
Launched Robinhood Chain L2 testnet on Arbitrum February 12, 2026, integrating Chainlink CCIP services and Allium Labs data support. Supports tokenized equities and faster settlement.
Integrated with Talos and Bitstamp for institutional connectivity.
Backed a ZK perpetuals DEX as part of strategic investments.
Allocated $1M in grants to builders through Arbitrum Open House, supporting Arbitrum's testnet.
Camelot deployed public testnet on Arbitrum tech stack.
Embedded prediction markets into existing app alongside Coinbase, MetaMask, and FanDuel. Reached $147M in "Other Trading Revenue" in Dec 2025 (up from $31M in 2024), generates estimated $300M recurring revenue.
Prediction markets are powered by Kalahi.
Crypto trading volumes decreased 57% year-over-year through January 2026.
Partners with Chainlink for official L2 Link oracles on Robinhood Chain.
Gold subscriptions reached 4.2 million users in Q4; funded customer accounts showed strong growth.
Reported Q4 revenue of $1.28B, with crypto revenue declining 38% to $221M, representing less than 20% of total revenue; prediction market volume increased 4x, stock slid 12.5%.
Monthly active users decreased by 1.9 million in Q4.
Securities lending revenue decreased 70% quarter-over-quarter in Q4.
Reported Q4 total net revenue of $1.283 billion, a 27% year-over-year increase, missing expectations by $60 million.
Achieved Q4 GAAP net income of $605 million with diluted earnings per share of $0.66.
Reached platform assets of $324 billion, up 68% year-over-year.
Crypto notional volume totaled $82.4 billion in Q4, a 3% quarter-over-quarter increase.
Prediction markets scaled to annualized revenues of $435 million in Q4, up from $115 million in Q3.
Released December metrics showing equity volatility and crypto volatility both declined approximately 40% from October levels.
Reported Q4 2025 transaction-based revenue of $776M, below the estimated $791.6M.
Reported Q4 2025 adjusted EBITDA of $761M, below the estimated $833.2M, at a 59% margin.
Reported Q4 2025 average revenue per user (ARPU) of $191, below the estimated $200.85.
Reached 40.9 million website visits in February 2026, the highest among prediction and crypto platforms.
Receives support from Robinhood and Peter Thiel as a project, indicating backing from both a major financial platform and a prominent investor.
Reports annual earnings on February 14, 2026; Q4 crypto transaction-based revenue was $221M, contracted 38% from $268M in Q3.
processed 3 billion event contracts in November 2025, representing a 20% month-over-month increase
Stock price increased 15-18% on February 6, 2026, following a 10% bounce in Bitcoin from $60,000 to $69,500.
Obtained VASP registration in the British Virgin Islands through Bitstamp.
Running a promotional incentive program offering 4.5% bonus on crypto deposits.
Listed SNX (Synthetix) token for trading.
Appointed a new Head of Onchain & DeFi who will oversee the HOOD blockchain, Robinhood Wallet, and tokenization efforts.
Listed RENDER on spot trading.
Invested in crypto trading platform Talos at a $1.5 billion valuation.
Bitstamp by Robinhood is sponsoring Liquidity 2026 conference in Hong Kong as a Silver Sponsor, participating in discussions on tokenization and digital markets.
Offers free tax filing and estate planning services (including trust setup) to users with $1M+ balance, powered by Taxfyle for taxes and Vanilla for estate planning.
Shares fell 7.8% on January 15, 2026.
GM of Crypto is speaking at the DAS conference.
Reached approximately 824,000 daily active wallets, nearly doubling year-over-year.
Processed over 4 billion lifetime transactions.
Released a new custom dashboard feature allowing users to customize widgets, track prices of crypto/stocks/ETFs in one view, and access charting with custom intervals and built-in tooling.
Launches a crypto giveaway program worth more than $5M, requiring users to claim via mobile app daily, starting on 2025-12-27 at 8:30 EST.
Retirement assets under custody reached $24.2 billion in mid-2025, doubling year-over-year.
Achieved 3x crypto revenue growth in Q3.
Integrated with Chainflip as a broker/integrator for cross-chain swaps, appearing in recent transaction data alongside other wallets and aggregators.
Launched traditional stock trading feature in the U.S. with zero fees and 24/5 availability on December 18, 2025, directly competing with established stock trading platforms.
Contributing personnel and resources to the White House Tech Force initiative, a government program recruiting private-sector talent for AI and technology projects.