Robinhood CEO on Why He's Bullish on Bitcoin Long Term Robinhood CEO and co-founder Vlad Tenev @vladtenev said in an August 24 interview with The Iced Coffee Hour that he remains bullish on Bitcoin over the long term because it is "singular in a lot of ways." Vlad said Bitcoin was the first crypto asset and could even be called the "original meme coin," giving it an exceptionally strong brand. While many Bitcoin imitators can be created, none can replace its position as the first and most trusted crypto asset. He added that Bitcoin is also typically the first asset companies consider when building crypto treasuries.

Robinhood Chain's signal on CT grew 15x in a month. and the way it got there is genuinely strange. the chain was built for one thing, tokenized real stocks for EU customers. regulated, institutional boring stuff. then CT went crazyand made it into something else entirely. people started pairing memecoins directly with the tokenized stocks. $BONER against the HIMS stock token, an AI coin against tokenized NVDA. you buy the meme, the real stock sits under it as liquidity. gambling and equity exposure in one trade. then someone ran the revenue numbers. the chain's doing a few million a day, which annualized is a real slice of Robinhood's actual revenue. that's when the finance accounts started paying attention, it stopped being a casino story. Robinhood then posted the official stats. $34.6B in volume, 12.3M addresses, 576M transactions in two months. Robinhood didn't build the meme casino. CT created casino themselves. whether it gets in real institutional money or dissapear first is the open question. though, attention is crazy

Robinhood started by serving a generation of first-time investors. Now those customers are building wealth and their financial needs are growing with them. A few weeks after launching Trust Accounts, customers have already deposited over $150M, with an average account size of ~$500K. We want to serve them for their entire financial lives.

Robinhood Projects Watchlist This Week 1. @EARNONHOOD - automated liquidity vaults and Omnipools for making tokenized stocks productive onchain. 2. @DenarMarkets - sdUSD is being built as a yield dollar for Robinhood Chain. 3. @legsdotfun - multi-leg prediction markets coming to Robinhood. 4. @fablesfi - hook-native ve(3,3) exchange for tokenized-stock and RWA markets. 5. @prismassets - RWA marketplace adding tokenized metals, assets, and prompt-based trading. 6. @rallypadfun - launch and trading venue with community chat, fee routing, and programmable rewards. 7. @notawebsite_rh - tokenized websites and rentable ad-slot markets, now moving toward PageMarkets. 8. @stockmonrh - portfolio-backed NFTs where each Stockmon can hold assets and route yield. 9. @QuotientHQ - forecasting agent for prediction markets, perps, and mispriced market signals. 10. @useAgentOS - agent OS adding Robinhood Chain stock-data skills and open inference routing. What are you watching this week?

Robinhood found a new growth engine and Wall Street is starting to price it like a financial super app (Save this). Robinhood shares are up 15% after strong analyst upgrades and record activity on Robinhood Chain. Morgan Stanley raised its price target to $150, while Scotiabank set a $136 target and Piper Sandler raised its target to $145. Robinhood Chain also generated $4.45 million ranking among the highest fee blockchain networks in the world. Those fees do not flow directly into Robinhood’s financial statements but investors view them as evidence that the company’s blockchain is attracting real activity. Robinhood Chain launched in July 2026 and is designed to support tokenized stocks, stablecoins, decentralized finance and trading around the clock. The company says its tokenized stock products are available in more than 120 countries, although availability depends on local regulations. The larger opportunity is that Robinhood is expanding far beyond commission free stock trading. The company now generates revenue from equities, options, cryptocurrency, prediction markets, interest income, subscriptions, securities lending, retirement accounts, banking, and other financial products. In the second quarter of 2026, Robinhood reported $1.31 billion in revenue while transaction based revenue increased 44% to $776 million, while event contract revenue reached $156 million, more than 10 times higher than the previous year. Robinhood also reached 28.4 million funded customers and $369 billion in platform assets and more customers and larger account balances give the company additional opportunities to earn trading revenue, interest income, subscription fees, and lending revenue. Robinhood Gold is another important growth driver because subscribers pay recurring fees and tend to use more products. The company has also been expanding into banking, managed investing, crypto derivatives, futures, and AI-powered trading tools. The bull case is that Robinhood becomes a single financial platform where customers can trade stocks, options, crypto, prediction markets, tokenized assets, and financial products from one account. Robinhood Chain could eventually create additional revenue through transaction fees, token issuance, lending, and decentralized finance applications. Our Head of Research, @KyleReidhead called Robinhood at just $35 and Milk Road subscribers have been riding the move ever since. If you want to see the next trades our analysts are making across fintech, AI, and other high growth themes, come join us using the link below.

Robinhood CEO: Goal Is for More Than 95% of U.S. Households to Own Stocks Robinhood CEO and co-founder Vlad Tenev @vladtenev said in an August 24 interview with The Iced Coffee Hour that one number he has been closely watching is the percentage of U.S. households that own stocks. That figure is currently around 65%, compared with just over 50% before Robinhood, and he is now asking whether it can rise above 95%. Vlad said Robinhood wants to broaden asset ownership beyond stocks to other types of assets as well, with initiatives such as Trump Accounts, private markets, and tokenization potentially helping more people participate.

Robinhood Chain is already generating more than $2M in daily fees. These are the top 10 chains by 24h fees: → @RobinhoodCrypto: $2.13M → @CantonNetwork: $1.76M → @trondao: $974K → @solana: $836K → @BNBCHAIN: $495K → @ethereum: $369K → @Bitcoin: $231K → @base: $99K → @HyperliquidX L1: $69K → @0xPolygon: $60K It also had the second-highest daily DEX volume. Pretty wild progress for a 2-month-old chain.