Robinhood sets a new strategic focus in the field of digital assets and expands its offering with several crypto products – with a clear growth intent. Starting June 30, European customers can trade over 200 US stocks and ETFs in tokenized form around the clock and commission-free via the Robinhood platform for the first time. This puts Robinhood on par with competitors like Kraken and Gemini, who have already announced similar offerings for the international market.

The tokenized stocks, i.e., digital representations of real securities on a blockchain, enable simplified access to titles such as Apple, Tesla, or the SPDR S&P 500 ETF – even outside regular trading hours. In the future, an in-house blockchain is to be developed to process all transactions of these tokenized equities in the long term.

A second focus is on derivatives: By the end of the summer, Robinhood aims to enable European customers to trade perpetual futures on Bitcoin and Ether—with up to threefold leverage. These futures contracts without a maturity limit allow for constant speculation on price developments—a move likely to appeal particularly to active traders.

In the USA, Robinhood relies on Ethereum and Solana staking.

The expansion comes at a strategically favorable time: The prices of Bitcoin and other crypto-assets are near their all-time highs, former President Trump is showing openness to digital assets, and the US Congress is preparing legislation that could more firmly anchor cryptocurrencies in the financial system.

Robinhood's CEO Vlad Tenev pursues a clear vision: He wants to expand the platform into a global financial service provider - with crypto as a central component. Since the crypto launch in 2018, the company has generated significant revenue from trading activities, most recently supported by the acquisitions of Bitstamp and WonderFi.