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Robinhood introduced Robinhood Chain, new stock tokens and decentralized lending at its July 1, 2026 event. The moves expand its crypto and AI offerings beyond the United States. @Forbes reported the announcements.
cnbc.comRobinhood held its "The World Is Flat" event in London on July 1, 2026 and announced the launch of Robinhood Chain, an AI-native blockchain built for real-world assets on Ethereum Layer-2 Arbitrum technology. The chain is supported by automated market-making mechanisms from Uniswap and Pleiades.
Users earn an estimated 7% APY on USDG stablecoins via the Morpho protocol. The company unveiled new stock tokens that will trade across third-party wallets including Ledger and Trust Wallet and decentralized exchanges including Uniswap and 1inch. The new stock tokens will be available in more than 120 countries excluding the United States and are structured as tokenized debt instruments redeemable for cash through authorized participant providers, @Forbes reported.
Robinhood's existing stock tokens, now called classic stock tokens, will continue to be available in the Robinhood Europe app. Robinhood announced new perpetual futures tied to commodities, ETFs and foreign exchange offering up to 10x leverage, to be launched in Europe. Users will also be able to trade perpetual futures and earn points on Lighter through an integration with Robinhood Chain.
In the United States, Robinhood introduced a maker-taker fee model with fees as low as 0% based on volumes for crypto traders and extended agentic trading capabilities that let users connect preferred AI models to its data and tools for crypto at no cost.
In May the company introduced a feature allowing AI agents to link to Robinhood Gold credit cards to make purchases autonomously based on set parameters.
Soon after July 1, 2026. Jordan Sinclair leads Robinhood's brokerage and crypto business in the U.K. Seong Seog Lee is head of product at Robinhood Crypto. Gina Pasqua-Abeles is senior director of product at Robinhood.
Vlad Tenev is cofounder, CEO and Chairman of Robinhood. Robinhood's crypto revenue fell 47% in Q1 2026 compared with Q1 2025. Total revenue rose 15% year over year to $1.07 billion in Q1 2026, while assets on the platform grew 39% year over year to $307 billion.
Robinhood reported total net revenue of $4.5 billion for the full year 2025. Robinhood's median customer average balance is roughly $12,000.
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