Robinhood has launched Robinhood Chain, its own blockchain for tokenized stocks, and is rolling out stock tokens in over 120 countries plus AI-driven trading through new agentic accounts, part of the company's broadest product launch to date.
Robinhood is led by CEO Vlad Tenev (pictured).
Robinhood has long offered crypto trading and simple tokenized products through third-party platforms, but has now taken control of the infrastructure itself. Robinhood Chain is a Layer 2 blockchain built on Arbitrum's technology, presented as permissionless and "AI-native" — designed for automated agents to trade directly on the chain. The launch took place at a London event called "The World is Flat," led by CEO Vlad Tenev.
Robinhood Chain first went live as a testnet in February and is now in production with several partners from day one. Uniswap runs a dedicated liquidity marketplace on the chain, while Alchemy, BitGo and Chainlink provide custody, depository services and price data respectively.
The company describes the move to its own infrastructure as a strategic step to bring traditional and decentralized finance closer together, rather than depending on other blockchains and applications.
Robinhood Wallet now provides access to so-called Stock Tokens in more than 120 countries, with exceptions including the US, UK and Canada. The tokens trade around the clock directly on Robinhood Chain and can be used as collateral in lending protocols or traded via decentralized exchanges like Uniswap and 1inch.
It's worth noting that Stock Tokens are legally debt instruments issued by Robinhood Assets in Jersey, not direct ownership of the underlying shares. Users thus get economic exposure to the share price, but no shareholder rights.
Robinhood is also rolling out what it calls Agentic Accounts, letting users connect AI models to their trading system with self-set limits on how much to invest and what rules the AI should trade by. This builds on Agentic Trading and an AI-powered credit card the company launched earlier this year.
Together, the push points toward a scenario where more and more trading on the platform happens automatically, with humans in a supervisory role rather than entering each order themselves.
Beyond the blockchain, Robinhood is also expanding geographically: crypto trading has officially launched in Canada following the acquisition of WonderFi, the company has secured a license in Singapore, and plans a crypto launch in the UK. In Europe, meanwhile, perpetual futures on commodities, ETFs and currencies are now opening up — not just crypto as before.
The expansion comes as Robinhood has cut around ten percent of its workforce, and after a quarter of declining crypto trading revenue.
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Sources: Robinhood, Forbes, The Block
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