What is Robinhood Doing in Crypto? | Co-Founder Vlad Tenev

Robinhood is the world’s most successful FinTech trading company. They have already conquered TradFi. What are they targeting next?

In June, they announced the acquisition of Bitstamp, the oldest crypto exchange. They’re increasingly investing in crypto and we felt it was important to know their plans.

We brought the co-founder Vlad Tenev and we had a wide-ranging conversation covering topics like tokenization, Robinhood’s Wallet and L2, payment for orderflow and MEV, the SEC Wells Notice and much more.

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0:00 Intro 6:35 Why Crypto 12:28 Robinhood Consumer Base 15:45 The Crypto Transition 24:52 Bitstamp Acquisition 34:10 Robinhood Wallet 40:43 Robinhood L2? 45:11 Payments 53:09 Robinhood vs SEC 1:04:29 Orderflow Business Model 1:11:05 Current Crypto Cycle 1:14:06 Vlad’s Vision 1:15:20 Closing & Disclaimers

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Robinhood Crypto https://robinhood.com/eu/en/about/crypto/  

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