Robinhood Markets, Inc. is a retail brokerage and crypto trading platform co-founded by Vladimir Tenev and Baiju Bhatt that offers commission-free investing alongside a growing suite of crypto products. Robinhood's Twitter Score is 418 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of October 2026, ranking #524 (top 0.5%) among 498,734 tracked accounts.
Robinhood operates Robinhood Crypto, which supports buying, holding, selling, transfers, advanced trading tools, and staking rewards for assets including ETH, SOL, and ADA. The platform also maintains Robinhood Wallet and Robinhood Connect as affiliated products. More recently, Robinhood launched Robinhood Chain, a permissionless Layer 2 blockchain built for financial services and tokenized real-world assets, using Arbitrum Layer 2 infrastructure.
Robinhood has pursued significant expansion through acquisition. The company announced the acquisition of cryptocurrency exchange Bitstamp for approximately $200 million, and separately announced plans to acquire Canadian digital asset company WonderFi for approximately C$250 million.
Robinhood has faced a series of regulatory actions across its crypto operations. In August 2022, the New York State Department of Financial Services imposed a $30 million fine on Robinhood Crypto for alleged anti-money-laundering and cybersecurity regulation violations, which was settled. In September 2024, California reached a $3.9 million settlement with Robinhood over claims that customers could not make timely cryptocurrency withdrawals from 2018 to 2022. In May 2024, Robinhood Crypto received an SEC Wells Notice related to alleged securities violations concerning its crypto listings, custody, and platform operations; in February 2025, the SEC closed that investigation and confirmed it would not pursue enforcement action. In March 2025, FINRA fined Robinhood Financial and Robinhood Securities $26 million and ordered $3.75 million in restitution for violations including inadequate anti-money-laundering practices, settled without admitting or denying the findings.
Robinhood has been backed by investors including Index Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Ribbit Capital, Thrive Capital, Sequoia Capital, New Enterprise Associates, DST Global, Greenoaks Capital, and D1 Capital Partners. Robinhood's portfolio includes Robinhood Crypto, Lighter, Bluprynt, Cenoa and OG. The account has accumulated 1,392,765 followers as of October 2026 and has published 16,095 posts. Robinhood has been mentioned by 5,923 accounts a total of 16,999 times.
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