Key Highlights Robinhood plans to offer selected stocks and ETFs on Saturdays and Sundays through Bruce ATS. The move follows expanded trading-hour initiatives from the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, as well as Robinhood’s 24 Hour Market. Robinhood Agents will let customers use AI models from OpenAI or Anthropic to analyze markets, build watchlists ...
Key Highlights Two Robinhood engineers, Hefu Chai and Huaisong Xiang, have been charged by the U.S. Department of Justice with commodities fraud and wire fraud for allegedly using confidential listing information to trade crypto perpetual futures on Hyperliquid. Prosecutors allege the defendants generated over $50,000 each by repeatedly trading tokens ahead of public Robinhood Crypto ...
Key Highlights The SEC’s five-year innovation exemption establishes a regulatory pathway for tokenized U.S. stocks to trade via automated market makers on public blockchains, requiring preservation of shareholder rights including dividends and voting. Goldman Sachs and Citizens analysts identify Coinbase as a primary beneficiary due to its existing tokenized-equity offering, institutional custody business, Coinbase Tokenize ...
Key Highlights Binance’s bStocks added 181,000 new asset holders in seven days, outpacing Robinhood’s 148,700 additions. The BNB Chain now commands a significant share of the tokenized stock market, signaling a shift in trader preferences. Surge in tokenized stock adoption highlights growing demand for fractional ownership and digital asset alternatives. Binance bStocks Leads Tokenized Stock ...
Solana DeFi Growth Accelerates as Tokenized Stock TVL Hits $87.4 Million Solana is making significant strides in the decentralized finance sector, with its total value locked (TVL) in tokenized stocks reaching $87.4 million, according to data highlighted by CryptoTwitter commentator @tokenterminal. This marks a substantial increase from previous levels and signals burgeoning interest in tokenized ...
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev argued Friday that companies should not hold veto authority over tokenized stock products that leave shareholder rights, issuer obligations, and official stock ledgers unchanged. In a post on X, Tenev framed the issue of issuer consent around whether a tokenized product alters the rights attached to underlying shares or creates new ...
AMC CEO Adam Aron Challenges Robinhood’s 1:1 Stock Token Backing Claims AMC Entertainment CEO Adam Aron has publicly questioned whether Robinhood’s stock tokens maintain true one-for-one backing if the underlying shares are lent to short sellers. In a series of posts on X dated Sept. 12–13, Aron directed pointed questions to Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev ...
Robinhood’s Tenev and AMC’s Aron Clash Over Synthetic Equity Products A public disagreement between Robinhood Markets CEO Vlad Tenev and AMC Entertainment CEO Adam Aron highlights a growing tension in financial markets over how traditional stocks are represented on blockchain networks. The dispute centers on whether companies should control financial products that reference their shares ...
Robinhood Crypto Volume Surges 61% in August, but Prediction Markets Steal the Show Robinhood Markets reported a sharp rebound in cryptocurrency trading activity during August, though the standout growth story remains its rapidly expanding prediction market business. Crypto Trading Rebounds From July Lows Notional crypto trading volume—the total dollar value of assets bought and sold ...
Pump.fun, the Solana-based platform known for streamlined token creation and memecoin trading, appears to be broadening its scope. On-chain data reveals the emergence of new trading pairs linked to traditional equities, signaling a potential pivot toward tokenized stock exposure. Stock-Linked Pairs Surface on Pump.fun Blockchain analytics indicate that currency pairs referencing stock prices have begun ...