Robinhood Launches Public Blockchain, AI Trading, and 24/7 Tokenized Stocks Globally

• Robinhood rolled out its own Layer 2 blockchain, tokenized stocks, and offered decentralized finance and perpetual futures trading.
• The company detailed its crypto expansion strategies for Europe, the United Kingdom, Canada, Singapore, and the USA.

Robinhood revealed multiple blockchain developments at its London event, highlighting the latest progress in decentralized finance, tokenization, and global expansion. Specifically, Robinhood officially launched its own Robinhood Chain blockchain powered by Arbitrum technology. This is to provide blockchain solutions for decentralized apps and real-life assets.

Robinhood Chain works in tandem with Robinhood’s on-chain ecosystem and decentralized finance services, enabling people to lend, borrow, and trade tokens. They launched the network with integrations from Chainlink, Alchemy, BitGo, Uniswap, and Pleiades, providing blockchain infrastructure and liquidity services. Moreover, the company offered to trade stock tokens available to eligible customers. It functions in more than 120 countries via the Robinhood Wallet app.

Products Trading and International Growth

Robinhood introduced Robinhood Earn to some customers in the US that allows trading of USDG stablecoins on a self-custodial wallet via the Morpho protocol technology. Some other users in specific jurisdictions have been allowed to trade perpetual futures on Lighter from the Robinhood Wallet app.

The firm has taken perpetual futures across Europe not only in cryptocurrency but also in commodities, ETFs, and foreign exchange products with up to ten times leverage. Some eligible traders can get access to trading of gold, silver, Brent, WTI, QQQ, EUR/USD, and EWY.

Expanding Robinhood’s Market Presence Internationally

In the UK, Robinhood disclosed plans to introduce cryptocurrency trading capabilities and expand further into Canada after purchasing WonderFi. In addition, the firm obtained a capital markets service license from Singapore that will facilitate launching future brokerage capabilities in the region.

Furthermore, the company introduced Agentic Accounts for cryptocurrency trading in the US with the use of artificial intelligence models that are linked to the Trading MCP system. With this innovation, qualifying customers will be able to develop trading strategies automatically. While it retained their full responsibility for allocating its own funds and risk parameters.

Combined, these innovations illustrate the comprehensive strategy adopted by Robinhood that incorporates blockchain infrastructure, tokenization, decentralized finance, and artificial intelligence into one unified framework. The company is continuously growing its global presence and developing new products in the regulated environment. As this process advances, industry participants will monitor customer adoption, changes in regulation, and performance of Robinhood’s blockchain infrastructure and decentralized finance capabilities.

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