The Rise of Robinhood Chain: Tokenized Stocks, Perps, and 27M Users | Johann Kerbrat

Robinhood Chain is live, and it may be one of the clearest signs yet that traditional finance is moving onto Ethereum rails. Johann Kerbrat, VP of Crypto at Robinhood, joins David to unpack the launch of tokenized stocks, USDG yield through Morpho, regulated and crypto-native perps, the Lighter integration, and why Robinhood Wallet is being built for the billions of people who have never used crypto before.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro
1:45 Robinhood Chain Goes Live
2:45 Robinhood’s 15-Product Crypto Push
5:47 Tokenized Stocks on Robinhood Chain
11:32 USDG Yield and Robinhood Earn
16:19 Perps Across Robinhood, Bitstamp, and Lighter
19:44 The Lighter Partnership
23:12 Will Robinhood and DeFi Converge?
27:15 Why Robinhood Chose Arbitrum
28:40 Building Crypto for Non-Crypto Users
31:36 How to Get Started on Robinhood Chain

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Johann Kerbrat
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