Robinhood Markets Targets Global Growth With Tokenization, AI Trading and Wealth Push

Robinhood Markets Targets Global Growth With Tokenization, AI Trading and Wealth Push Written by MarketBeat September 12, 2026 Add As Preferred Source Share Share Share This Article Link copied to clipboard. Close Image from MarketBeat Media, LLC. Key Points Robinhood is pursuing a broad ownership-focused strategy spanning active trading, integrated brokerage, banking, credit-card, wallet and retirement products, with AI used to personalize customer experiences. Tokenization is central to its global expansion: Robinhood Chain offers roughly 200 tokenized U.S. stocks in more than 120 countries, while the company targets half of revenue from international and institutional customers over the long term. Robinhood is expanding into wealth management and AI-powered trading , including managed accounts, retirement services, Trump Accounts, and agentic trading that supports equities, options and cryptocurrency, with prediction markets and futures planned. MarketBeat previews top five stocks to own in October . Blueprint for a Boom: SEC Clears the Crypto Runway Robinhood Markets NASDAQ: HOOD is pursuing a strategy centered on expanding access to financial asset ownership, with priorities spanning active trading, broader consumer financial services and international infrastructure, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder Vlad Tenev said during a discussion hosted by Goldman Sachs. Tenev said the company’s activities can be grouped into three areas: building a platform for active traders, becoming a lifelong financial provider for younger generations, and developing a global financial ecosystem. He said Robinhood’s active-trader focus includes equities, options, prediction markets and other tradable assets. Get Robinhood Markets alerts: Sign Up AI Is Selling Off, But These 5 Stocks Could Benefit Next “If I had to sum up the company in one word, it’s ownership,” Tenev said, describing ownership of high-quality financial assets as beneficial for investors and society. Integrating Financial Products Tenev said Robinhood is working to make its brokerage, credit card, banking, digital wallet and retirement offerings function as a cohesive customer relationship rather than isolated products. He pointed to the Robinhood Gold Card, which offers 3% cash back that must be redeemed into a brokerage account, as an example of a product designed to encourage investing alongside consumer spending. Robinhood Wants a Bigger Role in IPOs—Here's Why It Matters He also highlighted the company’s yield offerings, including FDIC-insured cash sweep yield, checking and savings accounts provided through a partner, and a stablecoin-powered yield product called Robinhood Earn. Tenev said Robinhood Earn facilitates customers’ conversion of dollars into USDG, a stablecoin offered in partnership with Paxos, and then lends those assets on-chain to generate what he said is a 7% annual percentage yield. As the company adds products, Tenev said it is investing in engineering, artificial intelligence and machine-learning capabilities to personalize the customer experience and avoid overwhelming users with product recommendations. International and Institutional Ambitions Tenev reiterated Robinhood’s longer-term goal for half of its revenue to come from outside the U.S. and half from institutional customers. He said tokenization could accelerate progress toward those targets. The company’s Robinhood Chain offers tokenized representations of U.S. stocks, called stock tokens, that Tenev said are backed one-to-one and available in more than 120 countries outside the U.S. He said the chain has about 200 stock tokens, with additional assets planned. According to Tenev, recent activity on Robinhood Chain has included billions of dollars of daily trading volume and gross revenue that reached as high as $6 million in a single day. He declined to annualize that figure. Tenev also said the chain’s growth since launch had exceeded the company’s expectations, citing developer activity, market-maker participation and consumer adoption. He said the latest version of stock tokens was made available to decentralized-finance applications after previously operating in a more limited environment within Robinhood’s European app. That ability to be used in decentralized-finance pools and third-party smart contracts has driven activity, he said. “We’re seeing developers doing things with stock tokens that we did not imagine, we could not have foreseen,” Tenev said. Wealth, Retirement and Trump Accounts Tenev described wealth management as an expanding opportunity for Robinhood, pointing to managed accounts through Robinhood Strategies, human advice through TradePMR, banking products, credit cards and retirement accounts. He said the company expects more than $100 trillion in wealth to change hands from older generations to younger generations over coming decades. He also discussed Trump Accounts, which he described as accounts intended to allow children to invest in an S&P 50