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JUST IN: 🇺🇸 "We're at the beginning of a super cycle, and it's going to take over the entire financial system," says Robinhood's Vlad Tenev ahead of today's White House crypto meeting. Tenev says tokenized stocks "give exposure to US stocks to people in over 120 countries." 💬

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 "We're at the beginning of a super cycle, and it's going to take over the entire financial system," says Robinhood's Vlad Tenev ahead of today's White House crypto meeting. Tenev says tokenized stocks "give exposure to US stocks to people in over 120 countries." 💬

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🔥 ROBINHOOD CEO FLIPS FROM "RWA-ONLY" TO "MEMECOINS TOO" Last week, Vlad Tenev said assets without underlying utility, referring to memecoins, are not productive assets, and that tokenized RWAs will drive crypto growth. Today, he posted that while Robinhood Chain is being built to be the best for RWAs, “it works great for memes too.” This comes after Robinhood Chain launched on July 1 to bring tokenized stocks and RWAs onchain.

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Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says tokenization of real world assets is an unstoppable “freight train” coming to major markets. “It can't be stopped and I think eventually it'll eat the whole global financial system.” “It's going to be a big market and I think we'll be at the frontier.” Source: Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on CNBC International

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says tokenization of real world assets is an unstoppable “freight train” coming to major markets. “It can't be stopped and I think eventually it'll eat the whole global financial system.” “It's going to be a big market and I think we'll be at the frontier.” Source: Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on CNBC International

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92,602 views • 10 months ago

Tokenized stocks are a win for everyone. For people that already hold stocks, it makes them more useful - much faster to send, trade 24/7, etc. But there are also lots of people in the world that don’t have easy access to US stocks. In a lot of countries, wealthy people may be able to get a brokerage, but ~4B people in the world don’t have ways to access US investments, so they’re stuck holding cash and low quality investments. Tokenized stocks will change this by opening up the best markets to the world.

Tokenized stocks are a win for everyone. For people that already hold stocks, it makes them more useful - much faster to send, trade 24/7, etc. But there are also lots of people in the world that don’t have easy access to US stocks. In a lot of countries, wealthy people may be able to get a brokerage, but ~4B people in the world don’t have ways to access US investments, so they’re stuck holding cash and low quality investments. Tokenized stocks will change this by opening up the best markets to the world.

Brian Armstrong

313,004 views • 2 months ago

🔥ADOPTION: Robinhood's CEO says people in 120 countries are using tokenized stocks as their ONLY way to access US equities. "They don't even have highly functional financial systems. This is really their only option." Robinhood Chain's tokenized stock volume has already surpassed $3 BILLION since going live in July.

🔥ADOPTION: Robinhood's CEO says people in 120 countries are using tokenized stocks as their ONLY way to access US equities. "They don't even have highly functional financial systems. This is really their only option." Robinhood Chain's tokenized stock volume has already surpassed $3 BILLION since going live in July.

Coin Bureau

71,738 views • 2 days ago

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev (Vlad Tenev) at the White House: “American investors should not be the last to benefit.” the whole speech was basically the mainstream case for tokenization: - robinhood is about ownership - tokenization brings american assets to global investors - private companies are the next market to open - too much value is created before normal people can participate - innovation and investor protection can move together this is the simple version of the Robinhood Crypto thesis. capital markets are moving onchain and Robinhood wants to be the consumer front door.

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev (Vlad Tenev) at the White House: “American investors should not be the last to benefit.” the whole speech was basically the mainstream case for tokenization: - robinhood is about ownership - tokenization brings american assets to global investors - private companies are the next market to open - too much value is created before normal people can participate - innovation and investor protection can move together this is the simple version of the Robinhood Crypto thesis. capital markets are moving onchain and Robinhood wants to be the consumer front door.

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Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev reveals what a billionaire tax in California would actually do to him personally… “Nobody's going to want to be taxed every single year 5% of their wealth. These taxes start very popular, then cover everyone.” “The bulk of my wealth is Robinhood shares. A lot of people would have to sell shares in their companies.”

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev reveals what a billionaire tax in California would actually do to him personally… “Nobody's going to want to be taxed every single year 5% of their wealth. These taxes start very popular, then cover everyone.” “The bulk of my wealth is Robinhood shares. A lot of people would have to sell shares in their companies.”

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Pedro Miranda reveals tokenized SpaceX shares are launching on Solana on Day 1 “It allows for instant access to one of the hottest assets on the planet to a global audience” “You just need a Solana wallet to access one of the hottest IPOs to date” “We're making it accessible, frictionless and extremely cheap for people to get access to SpaceX”

Pedro Miranda reveals tokenized SpaceX shares are launching on Solana on Day 1 “It allows for instant access to one of the hottest assets on the planet to a global audience” “You just need a Solana wallet to access one of the hottest IPOs to date” “We're making it accessible, frictionless and extremely cheap for people to get access to SpaceX”

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There are moments when a new market is created. And there are moments when a culture rises around it. Robinhood brought a new generation of assets onchain. A Meme Coin is here to become its first true cultural movement. The community sees it. The world is beginning to see it. And now Vlad Tenev sees it too. One community. One belief. One chance to write a piece of tokenized history together. The movement has begun. 🍿 $MEME

There are moments when a new market is created. And there are moments when a culture rises around it. Robinhood brought a new generation of assets onchain. A Meme Coin is here to become its first true cultural movement. The community sees it. The world is beginning to see it. And now Vlad Tenev sees it too. One community. One belief. One chance to write a piece of tokenized history together. The movement has begun. 🍿 $MEME

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Every cycle has a narrative that changes the market. In 2021, meme stocks proved that culture could move billions. Now those same markets are coming onchain. Vlad Tenev is fighting for tokenization. Adam Aron is challenging what tokenized ownership means. And $AMC has become one of the first major battlegrounds for what comes next. Sitting directly at the intersection is A $MEME Coin. Meme culture. Stocks. Tokenization. Retail. All colliding at once. If meme stocks were the movement of 2021, meme stocks onchain could be the evolution of it. And we intend to be at the center of that movement. The mission has only begun. 🍿 $MEME

Every cycle has a narrative that changes the market. In 2021, meme stocks proved that culture could move billions. Now those same markets are coming onchain. Vlad Tenev is fighting for tokenization. Adam Aron is challenging what tokenized ownership means. And $AMC has become one of the first major battlegrounds for what comes next. Sitting directly at the intersection is A $MEME Coin. Meme culture. Stocks. Tokenization. Retail. All colliding at once. If meme stocks were the movement of 2021, meme stocks onchain could be the evolution of it. And we intend to be at the center of that movement. The mission has only begun. 🍿 $MEME

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Vlad Tenev (Vlad Tenev) launched Robinhood Chain "to make Real World Assets programmable, globally portable, and always available," then publicly asked builders to embed stock tokens into their apps CZ (CZ 🔶 BNB) spent the month posting that "countries need to tokenize their stocks, allowing worldwide buyers" and that Binance's bStocks give billions "stock exposure 24/7" Brian Armstrong (Brian Armstrong) published a chart of the S&P 500 up 906% all-time and framed it: "billions of people have no access to invest in American companies. Tokenized stocks are changing that" Solana shipped the primitives that made this category buildable at scale, then captured 96% of the on-chain tokenized stocks volume Four of the most influential voices in crypto and fintech converged on the same category in the same month. The trade isn't whether tokenized stocks matter, it's what people can do with them once billions of them can hold one Nest is the productive dollar layer for that answer. Deposit the equity as collateral, mint nUSD at 3% APR, stake into snUSD for ~6% APY. The dividend keeps flowing, the equity stays, while the dollar earns The distribution is being solved by the biggest names in fintech, and the productive layer is where Nest lives: the category doesn't need more validation, it needs more infrastructure, we're building that layer

Vlad Tenev (Vlad Tenev) launched Robinhood Chain "to make Real World Assets programmable, globally portable, and always available," then publicly asked builders to embed stock tokens into their apps CZ (CZ 🔶 BNB) spent the month posting that "countries need to tokenize their stocks, allowing worldwide buyers" and that Binance's bStocks give billions "stock exposure 24/7" Brian Armstrong (Brian Armstrong) published a chart of the S&P 500 up 906% all-time and framed it: "billions of people have no access to invest in American companies. Tokenized stocks are changing that" Solana shipped the primitives that made this category buildable at scale, then captured 96% of the on-chain tokenized stocks volume Four of the most influential voices in crypto and fintech converged on the same category in the same month. The trade isn't whether tokenized stocks matter, it's what people can do with them once billions of them can hold one Nest is the productive dollar layer for that answer. Deposit the equity as collateral, mint nUSD at 3% APR, stake into snUSD for ~6% APY. The dividend keeps flowing, the equity stays, while the dollar earns The distribution is being solved by the biggest names in fintech, and the productive layer is where Nest lives: the category doesn't need more validation, it needs more infrastructure, we're building that layer

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Robinhood CEO: Stock Tokens Will Be DeFi's Most Important Primitive On August 7, 2026, Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev Vlad Tenev said on Future Investing that Robinhood Chain is the fastest-growing chain in history, reaching 100 million transactions faster than any other chain. He said stock tokens are among the most important underlying assets on the chain. Tenev noted that it took Robinhood years to reach $10 billion in trading volume, while the chain achieved the same in just weeks. He believes the chain's rapid growth is driven by a positive feedback loop between liquidity and trading volume, with major wallets integrating quickly and developer activity ranking among the top. He said this is a long-term game, and that continued TVL growth is what he is watching most closely.

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$HOOD Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev: “We wanted to be the first to tokenize shares of OpenAI and SpaceX. I don’t know if there’s a Guinness Book of World Records for that, but there should be.” This guy just wants to win. You are investing in a CEO who plays. to. win.

$HOOD Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev: “We wanted to be the first to tokenize shares of OpenAI and SpaceX. I don’t know if there’s a Guinness Book of World Records for that, but there should be.” This guy just wants to win. You are investing in a CEO who plays. to. win.

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378,656 views • 11 months ago

Robinhood CEO: “Tokenization is like a freight train. It can’t be stopped and will eventually eat the entire financial system” Vlad Tenev finds stablecoins to be a useful analogy to explain the benefits of tokenizing real world assets like equities and real estate: “For stablecoins in the US, we talk about it as the best way to get exposure to US assets, and it will further what’s called ‘US dollar dominance’ abroad . . . we’re making it the default way to get access to dollars in the digital realm. That’s why stablecoins have been such a priority in the US, and if you do own a dollar stablecoin, it’s sort of like the most basic tokenized assets.” “In the same way that stablecoins are a bucket of dollars that you mint and burn tokens against, you can do that with stocks, real estate and other real world assets, private stocks . . . And I think it will become the default way to get exposure to US stocks outside the US. I think that’s what makes it so exciting.” This is why Robinhood announced in June 2025 at ETH cc that it would be moving into tokenizing stocks on Ethereum and building its own Ethereum L2: “Both [private and public equity] we’ve demonstrated. In the case of stocks, it’s live right now in the EU. So the only complexity remaining is making sure you have the appropriate licensure and the regulatory clarity in many jurisdictions, but I think that will come. It started in Europe, but it will expand to the rest of the world. Unfortunately, but realistically . . . the US will probably be among the last economies to fully tokenize. But I think it’s inevitable in the US as well.” Source: TOKEN2049 (Oct 2025)

Robinhood CEO: “Tokenization is like a freight train. It can’t be stopped and will eventually eat the entire financial system” Vlad Tenev finds stablecoins to be a useful analogy to explain the benefits of tokenizing real world assets like equities and real estate: “For stablecoins in the US, we talk about it as the best way to get exposure to US assets, and it will further what’s called ‘US dollar dominance’ abroad . . . we’re making it the default way to get access to dollars in the digital realm. That’s why stablecoins have been such a priority in the US, and if you do own a dollar stablecoin, it’s sort of like the most basic tokenized assets.” “In the same way that stablecoins are a bucket of dollars that you mint and burn tokens against, you can do that with stocks, real estate and other real world assets, private stocks . . . And I think it will become the default way to get exposure to US stocks outside the US. I think that’s what makes it so exciting.” This is why Robinhood announced in June 2025 at ETH cc that it would be moving into tokenizing stocks on Ethereum and building its own Ethereum L2: “Both [private and public equity] we’ve demonstrated. In the case of stocks, it’s live right now in the EU. So the only complexity remaining is making sure you have the appropriate licensure and the regulatory clarity in many jurisdictions, but I think that will come. It started in Europe, but it will expand to the rest of the world. Unfortunately, but realistically . . . the US will probably be among the last economies to fully tokenize. But I think it’s inevitable in the US as well.” Source: TOKEN2049 (Oct 2025)

Etherealize

61,007 views • 1 month ago

Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink calls Ethereum "The Toll Road to Tokenization" "What he meant by that is assets will be tokenized, people will transact, and then each of those transactions will pay a fee to the Ethereum network. Part of that fee will be burned and decrease the supply of ETH. The other part will be paid to stakers. So it's kind of like a toll road for anyone who wants to transact with tokenized assets." "The first example of product/market fit with tokenization was stablecoins. There are a lot of reasons why a tokenized dollar is better than one on fiat rails. But the big things are accessibility -- it gives people around the world who don't have access to the US financial system access to dollars -- and reducing the friction of settling those transactions. If you've had to send a wire or ACH transfer, it takes days. Stablecoins settle instantly, so it's way more efficient. You've even heard Jamie Dimon come around to the advantages of stablecoins." "Stablecoins are really just tokenized dollars, and then that's going to happen with almost every asset class. Stocks will be next. People are talking a bout tokenizing art and real estate. The theme is 'the tokenization of everything.' And as all of these assets move on chain because more people can access them and the friction of transacting with them is reduced, trillions of dollars of assets will move on-chain... and Ethereum will be the global settlement layer for all of those transactions, and all of those transactions will generate a fee to ETH holders, which is why your ETH will compound."

Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink calls Ethereum "The Toll Road to Tokenization" "What he meant by that is assets will be tokenized, people will transact, and then each of those transactions will pay a fee to the Ethereum network. Part of that fee will be burned and decrease the supply of ETH. The other part will be paid to stakers. So it's kind of like a toll road for anyone who wants to transact with tokenized assets." "The first example of product/market fit with tokenization was stablecoins. There are a lot of reasons why a tokenized dollar is better than one on fiat rails. But the big things are accessibility -- it gives people around the world who don't have access to the US financial system access to dollars -- and reducing the friction of settling those transactions. If you've had to send a wire or ACH transfer, it takes days. Stablecoins settle instantly, so it's way more efficient. You've even heard Jamie Dimon come around to the advantages of stablecoins." "Stablecoins are really just tokenized dollars, and then that's going to happen with almost every asset class. Stocks will be next. People are talking a bout tokenizing art and real estate. The theme is 'the tokenization of everything.' And as all of these assets move on chain because more people can access them and the friction of transacting with them is reduced, trillions of dollars of assets will move on-chain... and Ethereum will be the global settlement layer for all of those transactions, and all of those transactions will generate a fee to ETH holders, which is why your ETH will compound."

Etherealize

10,793 views • 4 months ago

$HOOD » CEO Vlad Tenev on working at Robinhood: “Achieving really hard things is not easy on people. It's tough. It requires long hours. It requires a lot of attention to detail. I don't think Robinhood is a great place to optimize for work-life balance by any means. It's a place where people come to work intensely; they want to have a lot of impact and to do in one year what would take a normal company 10 to 20 years.”

$HOOD » CEO Vlad Tenev on working at Robinhood: “Achieving really hard things is not easy on people. It's tough. It requires long hours. It requires a lot of attention to detail. I don't think Robinhood is a great place to optimize for work-life balance by any means. It's a place where people come to work intensely; they want to have a lot of impact and to do in one year what would take a normal company 10 to 20 years.”

information investing

19,261 views • 7 months ago

Robinhood is the app that has onboarded millions of people to financial assets. Vlad Tenev said it himself. They believe, Prediction Markets, are at the start of a Supercycle. I truly believe, and have been saying myself for quite some time, this is not a 'fad' or a 'meta' Prediction Markets, are the future.

Robinhood is the app that has onboarded millions of people to financial assets. Vlad Tenev said it himself. They believe, Prediction Markets, are at the start of a Supercycle. I truly believe, and have been saying myself for quite some time, this is not a 'fad' or a 'meta' Prediction Markets, are the future.

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18,606 views • 8 months ago