DFSRegulated
United States Crypto Asset Exchange License (CEX)
Robinhood
Regulated in United States
Crypto Asset Exchange License (CEX)
Global Business
Basic Information
Country/RegionUnited States
Exchange AbbreviationRobinhood
Company NameRobinhood Europe UAB
Operating Period5-10 years
Websitehttps://robinhood.com/us/en/
Trade TypeFiat Trading
Influence
AAARating
Main Affected Regions
NMLSRegulated
United States Crypto Asset Transfer License (MTL)
LBRegulated
Lithuania Crypto Asset Trading License (STP)
Exchange Overview
Exchange Overview
Robinhood means Robinhood Markets and its in-application and web experiences with its family of wholly owned subsidiaries which includes Robinhood Financial, Robinhood Securities, and Robinhood Crypto.
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Who is Vlad Tenev？ The Robinhood CEO explained
He built the app that made stock trading free, sat at the center of the GameStop crisis, launched a blockchain, dismissed memecoins, embraced one six days later, and runs an AI company chasing mathematical superintelligence on the side. Most crypto figures are one thing. Vlad Tenev is the chief executive of a publicly listed American brokerage, the person who made retail stock trading free and then had to explain to Congress what free actually cost, a blockchain founder, an advisor to a decentralized perpetuals exchange, and the co-founder of an artificial intelligence company trying to build mathematical superintelligence. In July 2026 he did all of those jobs in the same fortnight, and in the middle of it dismissed memecoins on television and then endorsed one on X. Understanding him is less about biography than about a pattern that repeats: Tenev builds the infrastructure for a kind of trading he describes as serious, and the traffic that shows up is not. The company he built Tenev co-founded Robinhood with Baiju Bhatt. The pitch was simple and, at the time, radical: stock trading with no commissions, on a phone, designed for people who had never owned a brokerage account. It worked. Robinhood now serves roughly
Is there a Robinhood Chain token？
No. There is no official Robinhood Chain token, there is no airdrop, and there is no snapshot. Every token currently claiming that association is either a joke that admits it or a trap that does not. Ask the internet whether Robinhood Chain has a token and you will get a hundred confident answers, most of them wrong and several of them designed to be. The correct answer is short: no. Robinhood launched its blockchain on July 1, 2026 and did not issue a native token with it. What exists instead is a chain that runs on ether, a company stock that trades on Nasdaq, and a growing crowd of community tokens borrowing Robinhoods branding without permission. Understanding why the chain has no token, and why that absence is precisely what makes the question dangerous, is worth more than any list of tickers. The direct answer Robinhood Chain has no official native token. There is no RHC, no HOODCHAIN, no chain coin. The network is an Ethereum layer 2 built on Arbitrums Orbit stack, and it uses ether for gas. When you transact on Robinhood Chain, you pay fees in $ETH, the same asset that secures Ethereum. That is a deliberate design choice and it
Inside Robinhoods high-stakes bet to onboard 10 million casual users onto decentralized finance
Robinhood Chain briefly climbed to No. 2 in decentralized exchange (DEX) trading volume over the last weekend, prompting comparisons with some of cryptos largest networks. But Robinhood says those comparisons miss the point. The popular trading app argues that its opportunity is not to take volume from established crypto-native venues, but rather to leverage Robinhoods more than 10 million active users to bring new investors into tokenized assets and onchain derivatives. “Our opportunity isnt to take volume from existing crypto traders. Most people have never touched a perpetuals contract, not necessarily because they dont want exposure, but because the on-ramps have never been there. Were changing that,” Seong Seog Lee, Head of Product at Robinhood Crypto, told CoinDesk. “Users in over 120 countries can now access gold, silver, FX and crypto perps on Lighter directly within Robinhood Wallet,” Lee said. The bet appears to be that distribution, consumer relationships and wallet integration can bring its users, who may not be using onchain finance, into blockchain markets without requiring them to seek out specialist crypto platforms. The challenges right now are that the networks activity remains concentrated in speculative memecoin trading, while its original pitch for real-world asset business remains small. Robinhood Chain generated about $878
