Robinhood Announces Tokenized Stocks! LIVE with CEO Vlad Tenev, Johann Kerbrat, and AJ Warner

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🗓️ 1 July 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In this series of three interviews from Cannes, we host Vlad Tenev, CEO of Robinhood, Johann Kerbrat, GM of Crypto at Robinhood, and AJ Warner from Arbitrum to explore key announcements from their recent Token Summit. They discuss the introduction of tokenized stock options for private companies like SpaceX and OpenAI, aiming to democratize access for retail investors. Vlad highlights Robinhood’s commitment to addressing investment inequities, while Johann shares insights on the technological challenges and their Layer 2 blockchain initiative facilitating 24/7 trading. They also navigate the regulatory landscape with the SEC and CFTC, envisioning a future where private shares become accessible and entrepreneurial capital raising is enhanced. The conversation wraps up with plans to improve user experience for new financial products in Robinhood’s evolving crypto offerings. ------ 📣SPOTIFY PREMIUM RSS FEED | USE CODE: SPOTIFY24 https://bankless.cc/spotify-premium ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🪙FRAX | SELF SUFFICIENT DeFi https://bankless.cc/Frax 🦄UNISWAP | SWAP ON UNICHAIN https://bankless.cc/unichain 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK https://bankless.cc/Mantle 🟠 BINANCE | THE WORLDS #1 CRYPTO EXCHANGE https://bankless.cc/binance ------ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Interview with Vlad Tenev 21:00 Interview with Johann Kerbrat 37:30 Interview with AJ Warner ------ RESOURCES Vlad Tenev https://x.com/vladtenev Vlad’s Washington Post Op-Ed https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/01/28/investing-crypto-tech-robinhood-stock-market/ Johann Kerbrat https://x.com/johannkerbrat AJ Warner https://x.com/ajwarner90 ------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠

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0:00.0	I'm here with Vlad, the CEO of Robin Hood, right at the end of their To Catch a Token Summit.
0:08.6	Vlad, you guys launched so many things today.
0:12.3	As this wraps up, share a little bit of your sentiment.
0:15.4	How are you feeling?
0:16.2	I'm feeling really good.
0:17.4	I mean, I think that there was one technical glit, which you probably noticed.
0:22.4	Oh, the slow connectivity? I thought that was easily overcomable.
0:25.8	Yeah, yeah. So what turned out what happened was so many people were downloading the app and trying to get the stock tokens that it brought down the network.
0:32.7	So, yeah, but it turned out everything worked. I thought the team did a nice job and it was a lot of fun.
0:38.7	You know, we put so much work into these products. The engineers are building them. They've been
0:43.4	working for a long time that I think the least we can do is put on a nice event so that we can
0:48.6	communicate the value as nicely as possible. So I think it was a lot of fun. It was hopefully the crowd enjoyed it too.
0:56.7	You guys did a great job.
0:57.6	Now, I had the embargo.
0:59.0	You guys gave us the embargo, so I knew what was coming.
1:01.2	Yeah.
1:01.5	Except for the private tokenized companies of SpaceX and Open AI,
1:06.5	which I think kind of stole the show for what everyone was excited about.
1:10.2	And that's really something that
1:11.5	is something that Robin Hood is really tapping into what feels like just the financials like
1:17.0	ice of our times. You know, with so much VC capital out there, companies are able to stay
1:21.5	private later and later. This is something that we talked about last time you were on the show.
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