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Robinhood’s Vision For 24/7 Markets

Robinhood’s Vision For 24/7 Markets

A look inside their Ethereum L2 to power the next era of markets in 2026

DeFi Dad
December 12, 2025

For years, Robinhood has been known for broadening access to trading stocks and crypto, but with its latest push, the company is leaning into what’s possible by widening access to new DeFi-native products onchain.

Announced this summer at EthCC, Robinhood has been building a permissionless Ethereum L2 called Robinhood Chain, optimized for real-world and tokenized assets. Unlike siloed markets today in TradFi, this infrastructure is designed to make assets truly transferable, composable, and available 24/7, without intermediaries or platform lock-in.

This week on The Edge Podcast, we sit down with Robinhood GM of Crypto, Johann Kerbrat, to unpack why Robinhood went all-in on its own Ethereum L2 to support global, borderless markets that combine the speed and user experience of a fintech app with the transparency and openness of decentralized finance. From early access to tokenized stocks in the EU to pre-IPO company trading to stablecoin applications to challenges of regulation, this episode lays out how one of the most influential trading platforms in the world is fully adopting the next phase of financial markets, built onchain.

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