@vladtenev
CEO and Co-Founder @RobinhoodApp 📈📱Executive Chairman and Co-Founder @HarmonicMath 👁️🗨️👨🏫
Fresh DRIP
We’re going somewhere new.
The infrastructure behind AI matters as much as the models themselves and RVI investors now have a stake in Crusoe as it builds that foundation.
Robinhood@RobinhoodApp·Robinhood Ventures Fund I (RVI) has invested $25M in @CrusoeAI part of their Series F! Learn more: rbnhd.co/rvi-crusoe
dividend benefits are here for our onchain dividend hounds 🔥
Johann Kerbrat@JohannKerbrat·Dividend benefits for Stock Tokens are getting an upgrade. Dividend benefits are now applied automatically on the ex-dividend date instead of weeks later on payment day. That means more immediate stock-equivalent economics from day one, no dividend dilution after the ex-date, and tighter pricing. Already live across most Stock Tokens, with more to come 🔥
Tokenization is coming to America. Thanks to the SEC’s leadership, Americans can start to reap the benefits of tokenization: instant settlement, 24/7 trading, fractionalization by default and more. It’s a good day for US innovation.
Robinhood@RobinhoodApp·Robinhood supports the @SECGov innovation exemption. Americans deserve access to crypto technology and all of the financial innovations it makes possible, including instant settlement, 24/7 trading, and fractionalization by default.
AI will prove your code is correct
vitalik.eth@VitalikButerin·It's an increasingly common take that AI hacking means cybersecurity is doomed. I disagree. I think cybersecurity is naturally defense-favoring once people get their shit together. And anyone who continues to hold cryptocurrency (including me, ~90% of my net worth) is implicitly making that bet. Here's why I am making that bet. First, the oversimplified punchy one-line statement: If AI can prove Navier-Stokes and FLT, then AI can prove the statement "this program is secure" as a mathematical theorem. Even if the program is very complicated. Now, the nuance: (See also: t.co/6YPWgVT7rO ) The word "secure" is hiding all kinds of skeletons in the closet in terms of what it actually means. What does it mean for Signal (the encrypted messenger) to be "secure"? The most basic definition you might think of is: no one who doesn't hold the recipient's secret key can read the contents of the message. But: * Did you remember to include _other_ critical forms of security? Can the adversary forge messages? Can the attacker prevent messages from reaching the recipient? Can they cause your client to crash by sending malformed messages? * Have you made sure that your model of the adversary includes attackers that interfere with the protocol actively and not just passively? And attackers that interfere by replaying messages to you or the recipient that either of you sent over the wire at any point earlier? * What if the adversary hacked (or _is_) the Signal server? * How did you learn which public key belongs to the recipient in the first place? What if that process was tampered with? * What if your device gets hacked at some point in the past or future - is your message still safe then? * What if your key leaks because of a bug in your operating system? Or because you got a bugged version of the Signal client? Or what if the database is corrupted? * Or the libraries, interpreter or compiler of the programming language you wrote it in? * What if your key leaks because tiny perturbations in perceptible signals generated by the hardware leak mathematical relationships that can extract the key a few hundredths of a bit at a time? * Are you hiding the *size* of the payload? Does that matter? * You're definitely not hiding the identity of the sender and the recipient, and the exact time each message was sent (think: not just time-of-day, but also time deltas between one message and the next). Is that not enough to deduce a lot of important facts about what relationships you have, and what *kinds* of conversations you are having? So ... even definitions can be over a thousand lines of code, and need deep careful thought to figure them out. Working on making definitions more human-readable is of extreme importance - it's perhaps the only "high-level language" that matters right now. But even still, even despite all of the above, for security-critical components, the definition is a much smaller attack surface than the implementation. Verifying that the definition is adequate is a much more tractable task than scanning over the code directly - and can become even more tractable with better tooling. Definitions are also _additive_: if two groups have two different definitions A and B, then, well, you can just prove that the program satisfies both A and B. Code is not additive in this way: if a program is A + B, a bug in A _or_ B can sink the whole thing. Definitions are additive. And if you can't satisfy A and B at the same time, you've isolated the most important philosophical issue for your project to spend its next few weeks grappling with. Sometimes, definitions are not much smaller than the implementation - UI components might be one example. But for many of the most critical components - message-passing protocols, sandboxes, cryptography like SNARKs and FHE - the asymmetry is real. Historically, a large class of failures with this approach have come from people only verifying a small portion of their code, that they self-declared to be the security-critical portion, and ignoring the rest - and it turns out that something in the rest of the code is security-critical too. This was reasonable back when verification was difficult and scarce. The solution today: sorry, you have to verify over literally your entire program, including database, networking, any caching layers, everything. Modern AI can do it. So it's not about "the good guys find all the vulnerabilities before the bad guys do" - that could maybe work too, after all a finite program only has a finite number of vulns, but it's riskier - it's specifically an asymmetric strategy of making code that is much more resilient in the first place. This is the kind of direction that Ethereum is going in for the next few years. There is no future for blockchains - especially blockchains with scalability and privacy - without doing this. We need to make software actually secure. And we have already made a lot of progress.
It's been far too long since our last product event ... you won't want to miss this
Robinhood@RobinhoodApp·Do you read us? Tune in September 29-30.
The builder response to Robinhood Chain has been immediate. New teams are shipping every week, and the ecosystem is only getting denser from here. If you're building onchain, we want to hear from you.
Johann Kerbrat@JohannKerbrat·Incredible to see the surge in new dev teams building on Robinhood Chain. The ecosystem is expanding by the day. If you’re building on the chain, we want to hear from you. x.com/nikil/status/2…
In-kind redemption and voting are coming for Robinhood Stock Tokens
Johann Kerbrat@JohannKerbrat·With Stock Tokens TVL reaching over $170M and nearly $50B in DEX volume on the Robinhood Chain, we are getting more questions about what they are and how they work. All Robinhood Stock Tokens are backed 1:1 with real shares in secure custody. And Stock Tokens receive the economic equivalent of dividends and corporate actions returns reinvested into their holdings. In other words, when a new Stock Token is minted, we buy a real share of the company at the same time. What about in-kind redemption and voting rights? Not yet, but they’re coming. Step one is to scale adoption of Stock Tokens. We’re actively working on redemptions for shares 1:1 with voting for eligible Stock Token holders on the roadmap. We know how to do this well: we run a shareholder engagement platform, Say by Robinhood, which allows shareholders to participate in actions like voting. What about the technology? We built Stock Tokens to be composable, which allows developers to build new innovative offerings like we have seen the past few weeks, with many that we have yet to discover. What am I the most excited about? Billions of people in the world don't have access to U.S. investment assets. With Stock Tokens, that era is ending. Any eligible customer with a phone and an internet connection can now get exposure to the most exciting market in the world.
Should companies be able to approve or veto the tokenization of their stocks? x.com/i/article/2098…
Stock Tokens on Robinhood Chain had a week.
Token Relations@TokenRelations·📊 Last week, tokenized stock DEX trading volume reached $4.3B, up 127.8% from the prior week, and had its first $1B day on September 4. @RobinhoodApp has the biggest share, holding 66.3% of last week's volume with $2.87B. @BNBCHAIN comes next, accounting for 23.5% with $1.01B. @solana comes in third, making up 6.3% at $272M.
Stock Tokens are not available in the US or to US persons and are subject to restrictions in other jurisdictions, including Canada, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland. A full list of restrictions is available here: docs.robinhood.com/rhj/
Going on stage at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference in 5 minutes. Tune in! 📺 event.webcasts.com/starthere.jsp?…
Prediction markets need serious market infrastructure behind them. Excited to partner with @OG_com and @cryptocom.
Crypto.com@cryptocom·A big next chapter for @OG_com. @OG_com is now a standalone business at a $5B valuation, giving it dedicated capital and an independent operating model to accelerate its growth. As part of that next chapter, @RobinhoodApp has selected @OG_com as an infrastructure and clearing provider for its Prediction Markets offering, while also taking equity stakes in t.co/WzYg6IreWE and t.co/hcDm4vdblb. Learn more: t.co/PsVrd9EaYV
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The markets are closed for Labor Day weekend, but Robinhood Chain remains open
Everyone should be able to access high-quality financial assets, wherever they live. That's what tokenization unlocks: taking the best of US capital markets and making them available on a global scale. The industry is still small compared with global finance, but the advantages are becoming harder to ignore. Traditional market infrastructure was built around fixed hours, closed networks and layers of intermediaries. It was never designed for 24/7 execution, programmable assets, composability or self-custody. The needs of investors have moved faster than the rails underneath them. We're working to change that. What gives me confidence is seeing how many different people are now pushing this industry forward. Founders are building new products, LPs are bringing liquidity, traders are finding new uses, and infrastructure teams are making the whole thing work. It's a privilege to be in the trenches with all of you. We are still early, and there is a huge amount left to build. It will also take time and effort for the old guard to get onboard. This is worth fighting for.
We stand behind Stock Tokens.
Dan Gallagher@DanGallagherDC·We know a little something about the U.S. securities laws and will not “DECIST.” Send your lawyers and we’ll educate them. x.com/ceoadam/status…
Good speed on that
Jeff Roberts@jeffjohnroberts·No kidding! Robinhood just ate the L2 market in two months x.com/mikeippolito_/…
Robinhood started by serving a generation of first-time investors. Now those customers are building wealth and their financial needs are growing with them. A few weeks after launching Trust Accounts, customers have already deposited over $150M, with an average account size of ~$500K. We want to serve them for their entire financial lives.
This week, @MichaelDell and Susan Dell's gift starts reaching Trump Accounts across America. $250 invested for up to 25 million kids – an incredibly generous commitment to giving more children a stake in America's future. This is how we create more owners. Get your child signed up: t.co/kzcokXIZqJ
Michael Dell 🇺🇸@MichaelDell·Parents of children in Texas started seeing these yesterday. Soon millions across 🇺🇸
I've always liked the idea that becoming an owner is something you can bring other people into. You start investing, then help a friend or family member get started too. Now they have a stake in the markets and can bring someone else along someday. Our new referral program rewards you for doing more of that.
Robinhood@RobinhoodApp·Investing is better with friends. Bring yours along and unlock bigger stock rewards as your circle grows. Sound on for the VVO (Vlad Voice Over).
Let that sink in.
TheS◎Lstice@The__Solstice·Robinhood chain is two months old let that sink in
Gather your people. This one's better with friends.
Robinhood@RobinhoodApp·Something new is growing.
Robinhood Banking has crossed $4B in assets. We don't take that kind of growth lightly — it's a sign of how much trust customers are placing in us with their money.
Robinhood Banking is a financial services platform offered by Robinhood Money, LLC ("RHY"). Banking services are provided by Coastal Community Bank ("Coastal") member FDIC.
We're building @TrumpAccounts to become the default vehicle for philanthropic giving in the US. Right now, if you are interested in giving, you have to navigate complex rules and regulations, not to mention evaluate individual charities and validate whether the money is actually going where advertised, and how efficiently. @TrumpAccounts let donors put capital directly into investment accounts owned by American children, with fewer layers between the gift and the child. You know where the money goes. The child owns the assets. There are no fees. And the portfolio compounds at market rates for years. That's a powerful model for giving and has the potential to positively transform philanthropy in America.
This is what global ownership looks like.
Robinhood Crypto@RobinhoodCrypto·$1.5 Billion. That's the DEX volume for Robinhood Stock Tokens, all on Robinhood Chain. To the builders, LPs, and everyone in the trenches, thank you.
I believe broader ownership of high-quality American assets makes for a more stable and prosperous country. I talked with @tylerskendall on @BloombergTV in DC about what it will take to get there, from CLARITY and prediction markets to AI agents and the next generation of markets. Watch the full interview ↓ t.co/LPe68RwthI
$1B.
Robinhood Crypto@RobinhoodCrypto·Robinhood Chain just crossed $1B in TVL. Thank you to every builder in the ecosystem.
Great two days in DC with builders and policymakers working toward the same goal: America leading the next generation of markets. Thank you to @POTUS, @ChairmanSelig, and @SECPaulSAtkins for bringing everyone together. Markets like this should be built here — by American companies, for American investors. Time for Congress to pass the CLARITY Act.
The goal is broader ownership in America. Tokenization is how we get there. Thanks @andrewrsorkin and @BeckyQuick for having me on @SquawkCNBC. cnbc.com/video/2026/08/…
Robinhood exists to make everyone an owner. Broad ownership is essential to a free, stable, and prosperous society.
Rapid Response 47@RapidResponse47·Robinhood CEO @vladtenev: "We look forward to working together to expand ownership, build the next generation of capital markets, and ensure America leads the way." x.com/RapidResponse4…
The OCC under Comptroller Gould has been doing incredibly important work to modernize the US financial markets
OCC@USOCC·.@USComptroller: Digital asset innovation is flourishing under @POTUS & @SecScottBessent. More than half of @USOCC applications received for new bank charters are related to digital assets – an eightfold increase from the Biden Administration.
America must continue to lead. x.com/i/article/2089…
At some point, looking toward the future means traveling into it.
Congrats to the entire Robinhood Ventures team on this milestone. RVII has begun trading on the New York Stock Exchange, the result of years of work to bring retail investors closer to private markets.
NYSE 🏛@NYSE·The NYSE welcomes Robinhood Ventures Fund II to celebrate its IPO! $RVII @ShivVerma | @RobinhoodApp x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
120+ countries onchain. The next chapter of Robinhood is increasingly global.
Tannor Manson@Futurenvesting·Robinhood CEO @vladtenev believes $HOOD has several paths to becoming 10X larger: “I see multiple vectors where the company can grow 10X, and we’re pursuing them in parallel.” One is tokenization, expanding stock ownership to 120+ countries. Our full conversation below
Stock Tokens are not available in the US or to US persons and are subject to restrictions in other jurisdictions, including Canada, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland. A full list of restrictions is available here docs.robinhood.com/rhj/
More Stock Tokens are live.
Robinhood Crypto@RobinhoodCrypto·100 more Robinhood Stock Tokens are now live on Robinhood Chain, bringing the total to 190+. Supported across Robinhood Chain and any compatible self-custody wallets.
Somewhere beyond the horizon, an idea is becoming a destination.
What does it take to build an early-stage fund for retail investors? Shiv and I had a great conversation with Sequoia Capital Partner Andrew Reed about how venture investors evaluate early stage companies, what they look for in founders, and the thinking behind Robinhood Ventures Fund II. Watch the full interview: t.co/6XEAHwqOdc
The Robinhood Ventures Fund II order book closes on 8/12. Sign up to request shares: robinhood.com/us/en/ventures…
Dividend Tracker is here x.com/RobinhoodApp/s…
Tomorrow's promising companies that could shape the next decade are still taking their first steps. This conversation goes inside Y Combinator and explores how founders build from the earliest stages, plus how Robinhood Ventures Fund II is helping expand access to that world. t.co/EVteZzAl3S
The Robinhood Ventures II order book closes on 8/12. Sign up to request shares: robinhood.com/us/en/ventures…
Almost every company that goes on to change the world starts out looking small, unproven, and easy to overlook. In our roadshow video, Shiv and I talk about why that stage matters and how Robinhood Ventures Fund II is getting everyday investors in before the rest of the world might be paying attention.
Watch the full roadshow: x.com/RobinhoodApp/s…
Got a chance to talk through why we built Robinhood Ventures Fund II and what the team is looking for in the founders and companies. Worth a watch if you want the full picture before the order book closes. x.com/RobinhoodApp/s…
Order book is open. Sign up to request shares: robinhood.com/us/en/ventures…
One of the best parts of being in Silicon Valley is meeting founders who are building what comes next. The Robinhood Ventures team works hard to find compelling companies early and bring those opportunities to investors. Order book is now open: rbnhd.co/robinhood-vent… x.com/RobinhoodApp/s…
Well, that happened quickly. More than 100,000 customers have opened agentic trading accounts. x.com/vladtenev/stat…
For more information visit robinhood.com/us/en/agentic-…
Most memorable part of earnings week so far: My car broke down on the 401 in Toronto so I had to walk along the side of the highway to my podcast with @Futurenvesting Despite my best efforts to hitchhike, nobody was brave enough to pick me up 🤣
You never realize how much you miss speaking your first language until you go a long time without it. Speaking Bulgarian at the consulate in New York brought some of that back. Thanks for the warm welcome and the chance to connect with fellow Bulgarians abroad. t.co/CTdhAfUyjK
See you tomorrow at 5PM ET x.com/RobinhoodApp/s…
Last week, my X account was compromised. A fraudster socially engineered X customer support to gain access, bypassing standard security features like 2FA and login notifications, and posted fake content about a memecoin. Fortunately, the X security team worked with us to quickly take down the post, and my access was fully restored later that day. Going forward, X account security has set up additional safeguards on my account to prevent this from happening again.
Mark your calendars. Robinhood Ventures Fund II is coming. The roadshow begins August 3. rbnhd.co/RVII-roadshow-… x.com/RobinhoodApp/s…
AI 🤝 mathematics x.com/pietromonticon…
Robinhood Chain is the fastest EVM chain to hit 100M txns
Welcome Phantom x.com/phantom/status…
I'm back. We are awaiting details from the @X team to better understand what happened. In case it wasn't clear, Robinhood has not issued any coins or tokens. Stay safe out there.
Ahead of earnings, we've seen a lot of people asking... Does Robinhood love memes? The answer is yes. So today we're introducing Vladhood ($VLAD) the official Robinhood chain mascot. 🏹 And yes... it will also be listed in the Robinhood app. More importantly, we believe this is another step toward bringing more attention to Robinhood Chain, which remains our primary focus for Q3 and Q4. 0x92d176ccbeeffecd8089e841d09ea17b6c22d969 Welcome to the Hood.
Two milestones today. The Robinhood Platinum Card launches, and the Gold Card crosses 1 million cardholders. Different metals, same idea.
Terms apply. robinhood.com/creditcard/ robinhood.com/us/en/creditca…
The best things in your wallet should feel like it. theatlantic.com/technology/202…
Terms apply. robinhood.com/creditcard robinhood.com/us/en/creditca…
It’s heavy x.com/robinhoodapp/s…
Your agent can trade now. x.com/RobinhoodApp/s…
Only 4 days left x.com/robinhoodapp/s…
Why not both?
Robinhood Earn just crossed $100M in deposits. We are still early x.com/robinhoodapp/s…
Robinhood Chain exists to make real world assets programmable, globally portable, and always available, with the product quality you've come to expect from Robinhood.
If you're a builder looking to embed stock tokens or RWA into your applications, we want to hear from you
One of the things we've learned from our Robinhood Chain mainnet launch is that ecosystems can grow incredibly quickly when there is exceptional engineering behind them Huge credit to the Robinhood engineering team, and congrats to our friends and partners @arbitrum.
Most companies build products. Today we build a head start for American children. 🇺🇸 x.com/whitehouse/sta…
This is the right energy for a seed investor x.com/adambcohen93/s…
Love seeing this in action. x.com/andrewbtc/stat…
All investing involves risk and loss of principal is possible. The hypothetical compound growth example is for illustrative purpose only and assumes bi-weekly contributions of $50 over a 13-year timeline with a 7% hypothetical annual rate of return. This example is not a guarantee of future results and does not account for real world factors like inflation, taxes, fees or market changes. Trump Accounts are traditional individual retirement accounts with special rules established under section 530A of the Internal Revenue Code. Brokerage and clearing services are provided through Robinhood Financial, LLC and Robinhood Securities, LLC, respectively, each a registered broker-dealer and member of SIPC.
Robinhood Summer is here ☀️ x.com/JohannKerbrat/…
The @TrumpAccounts customer growth has been faster than that of many of America's most successful and dynamic tech companies.
A robust chain needs a robust wallet to match. x.com/RobinhoodCrypt…
Every account funded is a kid who starts out owning something. Glad to be part of making that possible. x.com/SteveScalise/s…
This is what ownership looks like in practice x.com/SenCapito/stat…
While we’re building robinhood chain to be the best chain for RWA … it works great for memes too
The future of crypto is in real-world assets.
Trump Accounts are traditional individual retirement accounts with special rules established under section 530A of the Internal Revenue Code. Robinhood Securities, LLC, on behalf of the U.S. Treasury and through its designated Financial Agent, serves as Trustee for Trump Accounts. All investments involve risk and loss of principal is possible. Brokerage services are offered through Robinhood Financial LLC, ("RHF") a registered broker dealer (member SIPC) and clearing services through Robinhood Securities, LLC, ("RHS") a registered broker dealer (member SIPC).
