Robinhood was built for the last great retail investing boom: commission-free stock trades, fractional shares, options and crypto, all compressed into a clean mobile interface that made markets feel more accessible to everyday investors. Now it is positioning for the next one.

At Robinhood’s “The World Is Flat” event in London, the company unveiled a sweeping set of crypto and AI-powered products, including its own blockchain, a new generation of stock tokens, decentralized lending, new crypto perpetual futures and AI agent trading capabilities. In other words, Robinhood no longer sees itself as just a brokerage for younger investors. It wants to be the front door to a faster, more global and more speculative version of financial markets where stocks, tokens, derivatives, prediction markets and AI agents increasingly sit inside the same app.

The centerpiece of that vision is the launch of the Robinhood Chain, a blockchain the company describes as “AI-native and purpose-built for real-world assets.”

“This one really is a continuation of our Cannes event, where Vlad championed the ability for crypto technology and tokenization to improve access to financial services and laid out a roadmap of how to get there,” says Jordan Sinclair, who leads Robinhood’s brokerage and crypto business in the U.K., the company’s first international market.

Robinhood Chain was built on Ethereum Layer-2 Arbitrum technology and supported by automated market-making mechanisms from Uniswap and Pleiades. It will also integrate Robinhood’s first decentralized lending product, Robinhood Earn, which allows app users in the U.S. to earn an estimated 7% APY on USDG stablecoins via........

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