In brief
- Robinhood is launching staking for ETH and SOL on Tuesday, December 9, with plans to expand nationwide.
- New trading pairs for perpetual futures are slated for launch in EU, alongside 1,000+ tokenized stocks and money market funds.
- Robinhood saw $232B in crypto volume over the past year, with $51B in assets under custody.
Robinhood is rolling out a broad set of crypto features and services as it races to become a global digital finance platform, the company announced Monday.
Support for Ethereum and Solana staking in New York, with nationwide access pending regulatory clearance are going live on Tuesday, the company said in a set of details shared with Decrypt.
It has also introduced new fee tiers for high-volume U.S. traders, enhancements to its crypto trading API, and plans for cost basis tracking to simplify tax reporting.
In Europe, Robinhood has added perpetual futures contracts with up to 7x leverage on coins like XRP, Dogecoin, and SUI, extending its initial BTC and ETH launch.
“When we set out to expand our perpetual futures offering in the EU, we looked closely at customer behavior, requests, market standards, and the evolving regulatory environment,” the company wrote in a statement shared with Decrypt. “We found that many advanced traders want access and flexibility, but they also value transparency and guardrails.”
Also coming to EU users are tokenized stocks, with over 1,000 U.S. equities tradable 24/7, and money market funds, managed by partner firms like J.P. Morgan.
Per the company, higher leverage lets traders open positions with less cash upfront. New trades start at the lowest setting, and customers must manually choose a higher level.
Robinhood says this approach reflects how most platforms in Europe handle leverage. Its app in the continent remains mobile-only for now, but it plans to bring that to a broader web-based platform.
Decrypt has reached out to Robinhood to ask about how it looks to handle broader demand for self-custody and access to decentralized finance outside of its current wallet offerings.
Everything on-chain
Yet perhaps the most significant product to officially roll out alongside the set is its own layer-2 scaling network project, which it first teased in July this year. That project now has an official name: Robinhood Chain.
“For us, having an EVM-compatible chain was very important,” Johann Kerbrat, Robinhood Crypto’s senior vice president and general manager, told Decrypt at the time, adding that “the idea of putting stock on-chain was to remove this walled garden.”
For its European app, at least, the company has stated at the time that its aim is to become an “all-in-one investment app powered by crypto.”
Crypto remains one of Robinhood’s key growth drivers, the company claimed, noting $232 billion in trading volume this year and $51 billion in customer assets held on the platform as of Q3 2025.
“Crypto plays a unique role in our vision to become the number one global financial ecosystem,” the company said.
Compared to Binance and Coinbase, Robinhood has historically lagged on shipping features such as staking, derivatives, and non-custodial access.
That changed this year as the company expanded staking services and added futures in Europe. In September, its stock reached a new share price high after confirming plans to expand its prediction markets platform outside the U.S.
On Sunday, Decrypt reported that Robinhood is seeking to enter the Indonesian market through two new crypto and brokerage acquisitions from licensed players. The company did not provide further details regarding those deals when asked.
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