Robinhood’s Big Bet on Crypto, AI & Tokenized Stocks | Johann Kerbrat
The Pomp Podcast
Anthony Pompliano
4.6 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Johann Kerbrat is the SVP and General Manager of Crypto and International at Robinhood, where he leads the company’s expansion across digital assets and global markets. In this conversation, we discuss the rise of 24/7 trading, evolving retail investor behavior, and Robinhood’s push into areas like tokenization, prediction markets, and institutional crypto services. We also explore how artificial intelligence is shaping financial products and why improving access and education for everyday investors remains a key focus for the future.
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- 0:00 - Intro
- 1:11 - The future of 24/7 trading
- 3:39 - Stocks, crypto & prediction markets on one platform
- 6:30 - How Robinhood builds products internally
- 13:27 - The rise of independent investors
- 15:43 - Stablecoins & global payments
- 16:46 - Tokenized stocks & regulation
- 23:19 - Bitstamp acquisition & institutional crypto
- 25:02 - Hiring, AI & team dynamics
- 26:38 - Robinhood’s goals & global expansion
- 30:18 — APIs, agents & AI trading
- 33:00 - AI financial assistants & advisors
- 38:10 — New banking & family investing features
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| 1:01.1 | is and crypto in general is that it's 24-7. So I think we are going to slowly get into this world |
| 1:05.9 | where you will see 24-7 trading. I think it's important for accessibility, I think, to trade the news. |
| 1:11.8 | The reality of Robin Hood has been, you know, removing the friction, removing fees when |
| 1:16.2 | possible, reducing as much as possible the barrier to entry and also bringing all this |
| 1:20.9 | educational tools that you have on the platform to make it just a thing that you can actually |
| 1:24.5 | do because now you're learning and you know what to do moving forward. What's going on on guys? Today we've got a great conversation with Johan Kerrbrat. In this conversation, he is going to explain exactly what is going on at Robin Hood. They're one of the fastest growing retail platforms in the world. They've been embracing crypto, prediction markets, equities, tokenization, and much, much more. He is the SVP and general manager of crypto and international at Robin Hood, and he's going to not only explain what they're doing from a product standpoint, but also how they're building products internally, what their investors are doing on the platform, and then we get deep in the details. What's he doing on the platform? How's he using some of the products for his family? And he also helps us better understand what is going on with artificial |
| 2:01.1 | intelligence, both in the market and at Robin Hood. This conversation is packed. I also give him a little bit of hard time because he's French and, you know, from America's perspective, we've got to give him a hard time. Here's my latest conversation with Johan Karbat. All right, Johan, I thought a great spot is there's a lot of geopolitical uncertainty right now. Obviously, say there's missiles dropping in the Middle East, people are trying to figure out what's going on. |
| 2:19.0 | We've seen bonds, Bitcoin, and gold. There's a lot of geopolitical uncertainty right now. Obviously, there's missiles dropping in the Middle East. |
| 2:17.6 | People are trying to figure out what's going on. |
| 2:19.2 | We've seen bonds, Bitcoin, and gold, all do things that we did not expect. We saw bonds go down. We saw gold go down. And Bitcoin went up. And so I think a lot of people are scratching their head and saying, what is going on? You guys have one of the largest retail trading platforms in the world. you get to see what are they doing what are they doing are they buying are they selling are they |
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