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Robinhood
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Robinhood is a financial platform that offers stock and cryptocurrency trading to millions of users. The company launched Robinhood Chain in July 2024, a blockchain it controls end-to-end to manage compliance, reduce gas fees, and enable tokenized stocks with 24/7 trading capabilities.
Interview · Sep 29, 2026How Robinhood built its own blockchain to control compliance and feesRobinhood already lets millions of people trade stocks and crypto, so why build its own blockchain? ROBINHOOD CHAIN is the answer: a chain Robinhood controls end to end, launched July 1, that has since crossed $1.6 billion in total value locked, with most major exchanges…Watch the episode →Chart: TradingView. Quotes: Yahoo Finance →
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What Robinhood told us
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“The main principal reason was really to be able to control our own destiny. We wanted to create a chain that was hyperfocused on real world assets and on AI technology.”
JKJohann Kerbrat · How Robinhood built its own blockchain to control compliance and fees
“70% plus of the trading of these stock tokens is happening outside of exchange hours. That was kind of one of the main hypothesis right for the stock tokens.”
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