Bitstamp by Robinhood is a global cryptocurrency exchange founded in 2011 and based in Luxembourg. The exchange was founded by Nejc Kodrič and Damijan Merlak, and is now affiliated with Robinhood Markets, Inc., which closed its acquisition of Bitstamp Ltd. on June 2, 2025. Robinhood expected the final deal consideration to be approximately $200 million in cash, subject to customary purchase price adjustments. Bitstamp by Robinhood's TwitterScore is 263 out of 1000.
Bitstamp by Robinhood holds over 50 active licenses and registrations globally, with crypto-asset service entities including Bitstamp Europe S.A. authorized by Luxembourg CSSF as a payment institution and crypto-asset service provider, Bitstamp UK Ltd. registered with the FCA, Bitstamp Global Ltd. registered as a VASP in the British Virgin Islands, Bitstamp Asia Pte Ltd authorized by MAS as a major payment institution, and Bitstamp USA, Inc. licensed by NYDFS for virtual currency business activity. The exchange's core spot exchange had over 85 tradable assets when Robinhood announced the acquisition, and its institutional offerings include Bitstamp-as-a-service, institutional lending, staking, trade execution, deep order books, and API connectivity. Bitstamp by Robinhood is also affiliated with Ripple.
Bitstamp by Robinhood was previously backed by Pantera Capital, whose CEO Dan Morehead served as chairman of Bitstamp, and was formerly affiliated with NXMH. In January 2015, Bitstamp suspended service after a security breach in which less than 19,000 bitcoins were stolen; the exchange said only its operational wallet was compromised and that it held enough offline reserves to cover the compromised bitcoins. In April 2016, Bitstamp received a Luxembourg payment-institution license that allowed it to operate across all 28 EU countries at that time. Bitstamp later temporarily suspended its Ethereum staking service due to regulatory concerns.
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The accounts that follow Bitstamp by Robinhood include 799 founders, 145 angel investors, 397 influencers and 87 VCs, among them Balaji, Brian Armstrong, Laura Shin, Erik Voorhees, CoinDesk and Fred Ehrsam. The account has 512,388 followers and 9,199 posts, and is mentioned by 934 accounts. Bitstamp by Robinhood ranks #1,563 out of 364,257 tracked accounts on TwitterScore.