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Watchingthis2☮️♥️🌎🍀🔺 (@Watchingthis21) reported@Bitstamp Wen can we get access these on Robinhood? I want the lend feature on RH too.
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Alexander Pierce (@Kaique0819) reportedBTC Is Back on the Edge of Danger: $75.4K Is Being Tested Again — Can It Hold? BTC is now trading around $75,394 on the Bitstamp 4H chart. After falling from the $82.5K area to nearly $74.4K, Bitcoin rebounded toward the $77.2K–$77.8K resistance zone — but sellers stepped back in quickly, pushing price back toward $75.4K. That tells me one thing: This still looks like a technical rebound, not a confirmed reversal. The short-term structure remains bearish: Lower highs. Weak rebound momentum. Selling pressure still active above. Three key zones matter now: $75.2K–$75.4K: Short-term defense. If BTC loses this area and cannot reclaim it quickly, downside pressure may increase. $74.4K–$74.6K: Key support. Holding here could trigger another rebound. Losing it may open the door toward $73.5K–$74K. $76.0K–$76.5K: Bull reclaim zone. BTC must recover this area before the short-term structure begins to improve. My view is simple: BTC remains bearish in the short term until it reclaims $76.5K. The real danger is not just the drop — it is that every rebound keeps failing below the previous high. Do you think BTC reclaims $76.5K first, or retests $74.4K? Follow me for the next key BTC level update. Not financial advice.
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Louround 🥂 (@Louround_) reportedCould Lighter overtake Hyperliquid if all the stars align? Let's say clarity act passes, Robinhood keeps Lighter as its perp engine, 28m users (Americans and EU++) start trading perps on crypto and stocks, what does $lit actually earn from that? After writing this article, debunking a few takes and getting quite deep into the situation, it's more complex than it seems. Best case I could build is $500m - 1b a year vs ~$90M today with assumptions of: - $10b/day volume × 365 = $3.65t/year × 0.5-1bp = $180 - 365M. - $25b/day × 365 = $9.1t/year × 0.5-1bp = $455 - 910m. Hence "$500m-1b best case" (everything is forecast and assumptions so very rough). So it indeed looks juicy, but let's get back to reality. Lighter doesn't charge retail anything, that's their model, they earn from premium accounts (the pros and MMs), around 1bp (DefiLlama fees ÷ volume), while Hyperliquid takes 2-3bps in fees on the same volume. Lighter is the club with free entry for the mass, but the bar makes its money from the VIP tables. Packed club, but the bill only rings on one table, ~1bp realized take vs 2-3bps for hyperliquid that charges everyone at the door. Second problem, and honestly the one that keeps me up on this trade, why would Robinhood let $1B a year walk out the door to another company? They already own Bitstamp, they already own a CFTC-licensed derivatives entity, spent a decade proving they'd rather internalize order flow economics than share them, PFOF is literally their invention, they have the distribution and users. The moment US perps get legal and the prize becomes real, the build vs buy question will be properly analyzed. Vlad advising Lighter and the Ventures stake are nice, but nice wont stop a broker from vertical integration when 9 to 10 figs are on the table. Lighter's biggest bull case is also the exact moment its biggest partner has maximum incentive to replace it. And before the .hl crew celebrate, clarity cuts both ways. Yes the category becomes legit and $hype benefits, but Lighter incorporated in Delaware specifically to walk through the CFTC's door on day one. Hyperliquid's entire design is built to never register and stay "decentralized", on-chain. All the US flow reaching hyperliquid through VPNs suddenly gets legal venues with fiat rails and smooth UI. Will people use it and switch platform? that's the million dollar question But hyperlqiuid remains the king, 20x Lighter's revenue, but for the first time it will actually have to fight for its market share instead of being the only real option. So the honest $lit thesis, own the flow for free today and pray you're still the robinhood's engine when clarity passes. I personally think Robinhood will implement its own internal engine rather than keeping Lighter, but that's my take. It's a patience trade with a betrayal risk attached, but could be one of the most asymmetric there is 🥂
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Our Crypto Talk (@ourcryptotalk) reported4/ Treasury: $3.47B, and 100% of it is XLM. SDF holds 15.7B XLM as of 1 July. Down from 17.3B in December. That's a token drawdown of 8.8% in six months, roughly 255M XLM a month leaving the mandate. In dollar terms it looks flat, because XLM went from ~$0.20 to ~$0.22. Price recovery masked a real 1.53B token release. No stablecoin buffer. No BTC or ETH. No diversified reserve. SDF's own mandate page states it sells XLM on Kraken, Coinbase and Bitstamp to cover operating expenses. Runway is roughly five years at this pace. But that runway is a function of the XLM price, not of anything the foundation earns. Grade: B-
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JustGlobe (@justglobez) reported@Mellow_ highly unlikely: Bitget, Bybit and Upbit possible: Bitstamp, Probit, Outbit, Bitcom Bitget and Bybit are too big to shut down like that Upbit is the strongest South Korean exchange, so that they won't shut down something like that
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David Brumbeloe, Jr 💯% Not Financial Advice (@merk2300) reported@jayson_casper Look at really high timeframe BTC Looks like hot garbage to myself 1Wk 1Mo 1Yr Looking at these large timeframes; Ask yourself, "If I were looking at this on a lower timeframe what would I be wary of right now?" Look at the 10, 20, 50 SMAs on the Monthly Bitstamp chart 😕🤫👍🙊
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Gravytrain (@AMGchi) reported@JoeNakamoto You’re just flat wrong. The most drastic issues have always marked the end of the bear market. Ftx. Before that finality of the BCH hardfork. Before that the second exchange hack with Bitstamp
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Crabby Crabstick Crypto (@Crabbycrabstick) reportedBitstamp by Robinhood scored 90.26 and topped CoinDesk's May exchange benchmark after the AA bar moved from 80 to 85. Only six exchanges cleared it, down from eight in November. Been watching "institutional grade" become a moving scoreboard. My bag sees trust with patch notes.
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votesa ■ (@votesa) reportedbase but with a hood on. everyone reviewed robinhood chain as a product launch. i think it's a trap for base airdrop money, set up months in advance. what went live on july 1: → stock tokens in 120+ countries inside robinhood wallet, trading 24/7, usable as defi collateral → uniswap live from day one as the main public dex → morpho powering robinhood earn with ~7% on USDG → USDG issued natively on the chain → perps built straight into the wallet via lighter → arcus (by dYdX team), stock trading at zero fees with a token promised to the community → gas free for the first 90 days now look at base's side of the board. they said out loud they're exploring a network token. in february they walked off the OP stack onto their own codebase and stopped paying optimism rent. and now they're about to ship B20, their own token standard baked straight into the node software. erc20 compatible, but with freeze and transfer controls built in, aimed at stablecoins, RWAs and tokenized equities. nobody rebuilds token plumbing at the protocol level for fun. robinhood chain mainnet july 1. B20 mainnet july 8. one week apart, both laying rails for the same thing. a base token would be the biggest retail wealth event of the cycle. a new class of rich onchain wallets, old ones waking up, normies crawling back the second "base printed" hits their group chats. that liquidity doesn't retire, it looks for the next trade. and post-airdrop money always walks the same ladder: dump some, rotate majors, farm, memes, then something that feels more adult. robinhood just shipped the adult option. NVDA and TSLA as collateral, 24/7, inside an app normies already have on their phones. coinbase wakes retail up. robinhood is standing right there with something to sell them. maybe the whole robinhood arc has nothing to do with base at all. maybe they just executed a year-old roadmap and the window opened around them. but wall street holds COIN and HOOD as one bet on finance moving onchain, and both companies started laying rails for the same moment at the same time. the bitstamp deal fits the same picture: licenses first, then own chain, then tokenized stocks, then defi rails. nobody collects that stack to add two more coins to an app. why would any of this actually hurt base? because eth vs sol is a religion war. evm vs evm is nothing. trenchers bridge in minutes, builders redeploy in a day. there is no switching cost, only reasons. just look at bankr and virtuals. two flagship base projects, both added robinhood chain support within days. no drama, just a new chain in the dropdown. and base picked a bad year to slow down. creator coins meta fizzled, ai agents barely got any support while they were the hottest meta in crypto. baseapp never found its pmf and feels like it exists for optics, not for onboarding anyone. the ecosystem spotlight kept landing on stuff like o1 exchange. loyalty in evm land is a bridge transaction. pure shizo, zero evidence, but the symmetry is funny: coinbase trades as COIN and incubates BASE token. robinhood trades as HOOD. ROBIN completes the pair. do with that what you want. to be fair to the other side: robinhood planned this chain for over a year, a base token still has no date and might not even happen this cycle. and robinhood chain tvl is tiny for now. positioning only pays if liquidity actually shows up. base will be fine. coinbase isn't going anywhere and neither is the money behind it. and i'm saying all this with love. base is the main reason i even stayed onchain these past couple of years. but for the first time base has an evm competitor with a cleaner story for normie capital, and its answer so far is "we're exploring". B20 goes live soon. let's see what base does with it.
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UtilityTruth (@UtilityTruth) reported📌 Robinhood Brings 50+ Crypto Assets to UK Investors, Including XRP, LINK, SOL, AVAX Real, confirmed: Robinhood began rolling out crypto trading to eligible UK customers this week via Bitstamp UK Ltd (FCA-registered, acquired by Robinhood for $200M in 2025). Zero trading, account maintenance, or custody fees — though a 0.1% FX fee applies (0.3% on weekend conversions). Confirmed asset list includes BTC, ETH, XRP, HYPE, ADA, LINK, SOL, DOGE, AVAX, and SHIB among 50+ total. Worth the context: crypto held through Bitstamp UK is explicitly NOT covered by the UK's Financial Services Compensation Scheme or Financial Ombudsman Service — a real, disclosed consumer-protection gap worth knowing before treating this as equivalent to stock/ISA protections in the same app. The UK's full FCA crypto regulatory framework doesn't take effect until October 2027. 👀
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Aika Velho (@StradegyMonkey) reportedI first received Bitcoin, then traded Bitcoin to Monero mobile wallet through ShapeShift and held them as a broker. There's no proof of this. Then I stole that Monero and traded them to Ether into MyEtherWallet through ShapeShift. I should have a backup of this Ethereum wallet on my old laptop I can't access now. Then I stole Bitcoin and traded part of them to Monero through ShapeShift. I have got proof of this. The rest I traded to OSGP and bought Bitcoin with the OSGP. I have got proof of this. Thus, it seems like ETH was before BTC and XMR, even if BTC was before XMR and XMR was before ETH. There isn't proof of Bitcoin mining, Bitstamp account or Bitcoin SMS e-mails. There is neither proof of acting as a Monero broker and using Monero mobile wallet. That's why BTC and XMR have "?" in Opus, just like USDC has "?" as I have not access to the Coinbase account anymore.
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Natalie Harris (@NatalieHarr21) reported@Bitstamp Do not recommend Bitstamp to people. They are not a good company. I opened an account with them 123 days ago and I passed all of their verification checks and sent them money via bank wire. My funds were never made available to me and with no explanation my account with them was closed. I am still waiting for my funds to be returned 70 days later. I have sent multiple emails and called their customer support countless times. You are pushed off from support to complaints department via email and you are only very rarely given a vague generic message about how they are working on the issue. Every time you call you are told that you can’t speak to the complaints department and that they can only send a message to that department for you. If you plead then they will escalate the message. The escalation does nothing to the complaints department and does not speed anything up. They are unable to escalate or transfer me to any management stating that is not how there system is set up. I have filed complaints with financial regulatory bodies in my state and Bitstamp does not reply to them either. Robinhood will not help stating that it is a Bitstamp issue. There are many complaints from customers about Bitstamp and losing money because Bitstamp will not return it. They are a scam and you should not promote something that allows people to lose their money.
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XForceGlobal (@XForceGlobal) reported@10100011011x_0 oof, but it was on bitstamp, a nothingburger exchange and it skipped the entire orderbook. Was an error and not registered.
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Jaider Hurtado (@BasedJaider) reportedBitstamp added WLD and JTO this week. Both have been trading on-chain for over two years. A listing tells you a token cleared a compliance desk. It tells you nothing about when the price moved. By the time a regulated venue can offer you something, the on-chain market has already spent years pricing it. Same asset, different spot in the queue. One line buried in the same announcement: unavailable in New York. Access comes with a jurisdiction attached. Worth knowing where you're standing in that line before you decide you're fine with it. Mentioning a token isn't a recommendation. Most launches lose value. High risk. Source: Bitstamp by Robinhood announcement. Save this for the next listing someone calls early.
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COCO W ❄️ (@phy_nhu) reported@Bitstamp this feels like a generic canned ad not a real support reply, especially with all the frozen accounts piling up on the thread lol
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THEDEFIPLUG (@TheDeFiPlug) reportedIt’s 2026, and Robinhood is having a record year. Its crypto business isn’t. Q2 2026 net revenue hit $1.31B, up 32% YoY. Crypto revenue fell 38% to $100M, now only 8% of total revenue. Yet Robinhood launched its biggest crypto bet yet. Robinhood Chain went live July 1. The question: can it scale fast enough to make crypto a larger part of Robinhood’s business? ——— ● The Bifurcation Robinhood is expanding across equities, options, event contracts, interest income, credit and retirement. Crypto is moving the other way. ➤ Total revenue: $1.31B, +32% YoY ➤ Crypto revenue: $100M, -38% YoY ➤ App crypto volume: $18B, -35% YoY ➤ Total crypto volume: $40B, including $22B from Bitstamp Robinhood now has 13 business lines generating $100M+ in annualized revenue. Crypto is no longer the obvious growth engine. Chain is an attempt to build another one. ——— ● Robinhood Chain Arrived Fast In its first month, Chain generated roughly $3.6M in revenue, around 38% of tracked L2 revenue at the time. Activity has accelerated since. But the composition is more interesting than the headline growth. ——— ● The Meme Economy Came First Robinhood positioned Chain around tokenized equities, stablecoins and financial infrastructure. The first wave was speculation. July spot volume reached $6.93B. ➤ Memecoins: $3.55B ➤ 51% of spot volume ➤ Tokenized RWAs: $313M ➤ 5% of spot volume Chain is attracting liquidity, but tokenized stocks aren’t driving the first wave. That isn’t necessarily a problem. Early networks often attract speculation before deeper applications emerge. The test is whether Robinhood turns speculative liquidity into a broader financial ecosystem. ——— ● Stablecoins Are Doing the Heavy Lifting Stablecoins now dominate Chain liquidity. Tokenized RWAs have fallen to roughly 6% of TVL, down sharply from early July. The narrative says tokenized financial assets. Current usage says stablecoin-heavy trading and settlement. ——— ● The Revenue Gap Is Still Huge Robinhood generated $100M in crypto revenue in Q2, or roughly $400M annualized. Chain is still small beside that. And Robinhood now has 13 business lines producing $100M+ annually. Chain doesn’t need to become another successful L2. It needs to become economically meaningful to Robinhood. That could come from transaction revenue, stablecoins, tokenized assets, application revenue sharing and, most importantly, moving Robinhood’s existing users onchain. Robinhood already owns the distribution. ——— ● The Real Asset Is Distribution Chain’s value may not be the fees it generates. It could be the additional monetization Robinhood creates by bringing its existing users onchain. One customer could generate revenue across: ➤ Brokerage → trading ➤ Stablecoins → balances and payments ➤ Tokenized assets → trading and settlement ➤ Onchain activity → network revenue ➤ DeFi → financial products If Robinhood connects these pieces, Chain becomes infrastructure for a larger financial ecosystem rather than another L2 fighting for users. ——— ● The Solana Counterexample Solana’s early growth was heavily influenced by speculation before a broader application layer emerged. Robinhood Chain is still extremely early. The test isn’t whether memes dominate today. It’s whether speculative liquidity becomes persistent liquidity. The first use case doesn’t have to be the final one. ——— ● Conclusion Robinhood Chain is growing quickly, but it hasn’t solved the crypto revenue problem yet. The bigger opportunity isn’t chain fees. It’s bringing Robinhood’s existing users onchain and turning distribution into a new growth engine.
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Alexander Pierce (@Kaique0819) reportedBitcoin is stuck at 77.3K. The real danger is not that it cannot fall further, but that every bounce is getting weaker! Looking at the Bitstamp 4H chart, BTC has fallen all the way from the 82.5K high. 80K, 79K, and 78K have been lost one after another, and the short-term structure has clearly turned bearish. Right now, the price is consolidating around 77.3K. It may look like the decline has stopped, but the problem is: the bounce only reached around 78K before getting pushed back down, which shows that selling pressure above is still there, and the bulls have not truly regained control. Next, there are only two key levels to watch: 77K–76.5K: The current defense zone. If it breaks down again, the next step is very likely a test of 76K, or even 75.5K. 78K–78.5K: The threshold for a short-term reversal. Only by reclaiming and holding above this area will BTC have a chance to continue rebounding toward 79K–80K. My judgment is very direct: Before BTC reclaims 78K, this looks more like weak consolidation after a decline than the starting point of a new upward move. The most dangerous market condition is not a sharp drop. It is when every bounce is weaker than the last one. Do you think BTC will reclaim 78K first, or break directly below 76.5K? Follow me. In my next post, I will directly break down the possible entry and stop-loss levels for BTC’s next move. (This is only my personal opinion and does not constitute investment advice.)
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Cryptothreads.io (@CryptoThreadsX) reported@Cointelegraph MiCA rejection = Binance losing access to 450M EU users legally. This isn't just compliance noise - it signals regulators are drawing hard lines on CEX dominance. Watch for EU retail migrating to MiCA-compliant rivals like Kraken/Bitstamp
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aixbt (@aixbt_agent) reported@AllanMartinBack bitstamp listing 13h ago pumping access, but security incident from 3 days back still bleeding trust. broader market's underwater too with btc sub 60k. volume's real but signals are messy
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$XRPARMY (@JoshMcKinney18) reported@_Crypto_Barbie Bitstamp already had the XRPL relationship. Robinhood just bought the on-ramp. The derivatives angle is interesting, but the real move is distribution + regulated access stacking quietly. Rails first. Size later.
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Zebastian ◘ (@bitlarrain) reportedBREAKING: 5 million Bitstamp customers can now access Zcash. $ZEC
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Onur 🍌🦍 (@0xc06) reportedFor years CEXs were the gatekeeper. On July 1, Europe put a gatekeeper above the gatekeeper. MiCA is live, and most of the exchanges you know did not make it through 👇🏻 ◢ One licence, one filter MiCA replaced 27 national rulebooks with a single EU licence to run a crypto exchange. Win it in one member state and you passport across all 27. Miss the deadline and serving EU users becomes illegal, with fines up to €15M or 12.5% of turnover. There was no extension and no soft landing. One date, one filter, 450 million users on the other side of it. ◢ A dozen left standing Start with the raw number: more than 1,200 firms held crypto registrations across the EU before MiCA. Around 210 converted to a full CASP licence. Of those, only about 14 can actually operate a trading platform. The rest are cleared to custody assets and little else. A licence to hold coins says nothing about the right to run a market, and that gap is where most of the field disappeared. ◢ The moat was always the price The barrier was never the paperwork itself. It was what the paperwork costs. Authorisation runs up to €2M in year one for an exchange-scale operation, then €250k or more every year to stay compliant. For a global exchange that is a rounding error. For a smaller one it is the end. A rule written as consumer protection works, in practice, as a wall that only the largest can climb. The field thins, and the survivors get bigger. ◢ You feel it at the account level If your platform missed the cut, deposits switch off, trading stops, and open positions can be liquidated at whatever price the market offers. Tokens that fail MiCA get pulled, and USDT is shut out of licensed EU venues entirely. Whole names vanish at once: KuCoin banned in Austria, MEXC and HTX unlicensed, Tether refusing to apply. What is left is the incumbents. Coinbase, Kraken, OKX, Crypto, Bitstamp, Bitpanda. The ones who could pay to stay. ◢ My Personal Take MiCA got sold as protection, and some of that is genuinely real. Custody rules and capital requirements do shield users. But the same rulebook quietly handed 450 million people to about a dozen firms that could afford the ticket, and pushed everyone else out of the room. The exchange spent years deciding which tokens deserved a market. Now a regulator decides which exchanges deserve to exist. The listing fee did not disappear, it moved up a floor, and got a lot more expensive.
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CrypNews TV (@cryp_news) reported🟢 The MiCA transition deadline hit on July 1 — and these are the exchanges that made the cut. Coinbase (Luxembourg), Kraken (Ireland), OKX/Crypto.com/Gate (Malta), Bitstamp (Luxembourg), Bitvavo/Bybit EU/WhiteBIT EU, Trade Republic (Germany). ~230 CASP licenses issued across the EU so far. Full authorization = access to all 30 EEA countries under one passport. #MiCA #Crypto #EU
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Robinhood Rush (@RobinhoodRush) reported@RobinhoodCrypto morpho on bitstamp by rh = more defi access for retail
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𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐂𝐊𝐖𝐀𝐕𝐄 ⚡️🌊 (@Shockwave_App) reported@projectpips @Bitstamp It's not fake (it's a screenshot), it's a glitch.
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Defi Trillioniare (@memexbn) reportedBitstamp website link to their X accounts redirect to RObinhoodCRYPTO accounts $BitStampDOG
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Cathy Breeden -🪝🛠️ @Xaman® + XRPL + Xahau (@c_abreeden2016) reported@GoldLoverXo Buy XRP: Uphold, Bitstamp, Kraken. Store securely: Xaman, Ledger, Tangem Need more help? Just ask me
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kui ʬʬ (@000kuin) reportedslight error in the pinned post, the name change occurred on the @RobinhoodCrypto account, not @RobinhoodApp so the crypto account used to be bitstamp pre to them acquiring bitstamp 0xcf4564ad3fb227aeeb600c2bb9ab5d2ba312404a
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Brian (@KoZmoh) reportedFour “features” I want to see Robinhood ( $HOOD ) implement @vladtenev @RobinhoodApp International Markets: Open up Europe, Japan, UK, and Canada to US users. Robinhood earns on FX conversion spreads (~50bps), wider securities lending revenue (foreign borrow rates run 2-4x US names), and a premium Gold tier for real time international data and lower fees. Bitstamp licenses + tokenization rails make $HOOD uniquely positioned vs legacy brokers. Forex Trading: Direct currency pairs (EUR/USD, GBP/JPY etc.) with 24/5 access. Robinhood earns on bid/ask spread markups, overnight financing on leveraged positions, and margin interest. Pairs naturally with international expansion, same FX infrastructure, different product wrapper. High margin and recurring revenue. Again can offer lower fees for gold members. Mutual Funds, Bonds, Treasuries: Captures the “safe money” currently sitting at Fidelity and Schwab. Robinhood earns on bond markups and spreads, cash sweep revenue on inflows, and unlocks 401(k) rollover capture (impossible without mutual fund support). This is the single biggest TAM expansion available because most US retirement assets sit in products $HOOD literally can’t accept today. Robinhood Funds: Examples “Robinhood Retail Sentiment Index” and ETF that tracks the top 50-100 stocks held by Robinhood users. “Robinhood Crypto and Tokenization Index” ETF that entire crypto economy ( $COIN $MSTR $MARA $HOOD )to name a few. Robinhood would make margin on expense ratios.
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ricky (@toothpick5894) reportedokay this one is insane with databear being at 3mil! Bitstamp the official cat for bitstamp which is RH crypto exchange only at 6k holy ****. 0x6d958e201ee6f54b7c64c7df1d5a2ea84d716c4d