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UNCHAINED: Why Robinhood, a TradFi Hub, Is Growing Its Crypto Business Globally

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4.7 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Robinhood spent $200 million to acquire Bitstamp and expand its crypto operations to the EU. But it won’t stop there. Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pods, Fountain, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Castbox, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform. Robinhood has been in the spotlight for its $200 million acquisition of European crypto exchange Bitstamp. The TradFi app’s venture into crypto is paying off: its recent earnings showed that revenue is growing substantially, and the Bitstamp acquisition is just one way the company will grow the pie. Johann Kerbrat, general manager of Robinhood Crypto, came on the show to discuss the acquisition, Robinhood's plans for expanding its crypto business internationally and into the institutional market, the company's approach to listing crypto assets, how regulation has affected its business decisions, and its efforts to bridge traditional finance and decentralized finance. Show highlights: How the acquisition of Bitstamp will reshape Robinhood Whether Robinhood could list more coins and whether it’s considering more acquisitions Whether the U.S.’s unclear crypto regulation influenced the decision to acquire Bitstamp and which other jurisdictions, besides the EU, Robinhood Crypto is eyeing Why Johann was disappointed by the Wells notice Robinhood received from the SEC Johann’s U.S. crypto regulation wish list and why Robinhood supports the FIT21 bill Why Robinhood delisted ADA, MATIC, and SOL, and the process for listing or delisting a coin on the platform Johann’s background in crypto and trajectory at Robinhood Crypto How Robinhood is uniquely poised to help bring real-world assets and securities onchain, and how it will handle offerings for institutional investors The impact and importance of the introduction of spot bitcoin ETFs Why Robinhood decided to offer staking, but only for Solana, not Ethereum Whether there’s demand for crypto-native features in the Robinhood platform Robinhood’s collaboration with Arbitrum and whether the company might build their own Layer 2 Johann’s take on the memecoin mania and whether Robinhood could list them What Johann thinks about the political fight around crypto in the U.S. Visit our website for breaking news, analysis, op-eds, articles to learn about crypto, and much more: unchainedcrypto.com Thank you to our sponsors! Polkadot Guest: Johann Kerbrat, general manager of Robinhood Crypto Links Acquisition of Bitstamp:  Unchained: Q&A With Robinhood Crypto General Manager: Why the Crypto Giant Went to the EU Fortune: Robinhood defies the SEC by forking over $200 million for a crypto exchange DL News: Robinhood crypto head says Bitstamp will help lure wealthy investors Robinhood’s crypto business: Bloomberg: Robinhood (HOOD) Profit Beats Estimates as Crypto Revenue Surges Robinhood Reports First Quarter 2024 Results Regulatory actions: Reuters: Robinhood Crypto gets Wells notice from US SEC  Robinhood Crypto Launches Staking in Europe with Localized Apps to Follow Memecoin mania Unchained:  Celebrity Tokens Continue to Bleed With Some Memecoin Traders Losing Six-Figures  Why Memecoins Have Been 2024's Most Profitable Crypto Trade: Ansem and Kelxyz Ether ETFs: Unchained:  Ethereum ETFs Likely Protect Ether From the SEC. But What About Staked ETH?  Why the SEC May Not Be Done in Its Legal Battles Over Ethereum Kerbrat’s statement on ETFs - Unchained Podcast is Produced by Laura Shin Media, LLC.  Distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Michele Musso and Executive Producer is Jared Schwartz.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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A tokenization can be really helpful. I think the settlement time will really reduce a lot of

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of the pressure that there is on some of the companies and I think we'll be able to really

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streamline things. There is not just settlement. There is also margin intra-day requirement.

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