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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TIMESTAMPS

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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RESOURCES

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

Robinhood Credit Card
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