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Robinhood co-founders Baiju Bhatt and Vladimir Tenev.Photo: RobinhoodBusiness Insider, May 2015: Robinhood no-fee trading app raises $50 million (opens in a new tab) 
Robinhood co-founders Vladimir Tenev, left, and Baiju Bhatt.Photo: RobinhoodBusiness Insider, June 2018: The race to build Europe's Robinhood: Invstr, Freetrade, Revolut, Dabbl and more (opens in a new tab) 
Baiju Bhatt and Vladimir Tenev at Robinhood's office in Palo Alto, California, in 2016.Photo: Aaron Wojack for The New York TimesThe New York Times, January 2021: The Silicon Valley Start-Up That Caused Wall Street Chaos (opens in a new tab) 
Robinhood co-founders Baiju Bhatt and Vladimir Tenev.Photo: Courtesy of RobinhoodFox Business (Reuters), July 2021: Robinhood CEO interested in offering retirement accounts (opens in a new tab) 
Vlad Tenev, left, and Baiju Bhatt, who were classmates at Stanford.Photo: Ian Bates for The Wall Street JournalThe Wall Street Journal, September 2023: Robinhood Wants to Grow Up (opens in a new tab)
2026
- July 1, 2026RH-2026-002
Robinhood Chain mainnet goes live
The public mainnet launched: a permissionless Ethereum Layer 2 built on Arbitrum, made for real-world assets.
See it in the chain historyVerified - July 1, 2026RH-2026-003
Stock Tokens go global
Stock Tokens became available in more than 120 countries through Robinhood Wallet, trading around the clock on Robinhood Chain.
See it in the chain historyVerified - July 1, 2026RH-2026-004
DeFi from the first day
Uniswap and Pleiades launched market makers on day one, with lending and borrowing live and Stock Tokens usable as collateral.
See it in the chain historyVerified - February 10, 2026RH-2026-001
A public testnet opens
Developers got a public Robinhood Chain testnet, with test-only Stock Tokens and Robinhood Wallet access, ahead of mainnet.
See it in the chain historyVerified
2025
- June 30, 2025RH-2025-001
Stock Tokens launch, and a Layer 2 is announced
Robinhood launched more than 200 US stock and ETF tokens for eligible EU customers, and said it was building its own Layer 2 for real-world assets.
See it in the chain historyVerified
2023
- December 7, 2023RH-2023-001
Crypto trading comes to the EU
Robinhood's crypto app launched for eligible customers across the European Union.
Pending
2022
- September 27, 2022RH-2022-001
A self-custody wallet, in beta
Robinhood's Web3 wallet opened in beta, putting keys in customers' hands.
Pending
2021
- October 18, 2021RH-2021-002
The SEC's report on early 2021
SEC staff published a report on the January 2021 trading in GameStop and other meme stocks.
Verified - July 29, 2021RH-2021-003
Robinhood lists on Nasdaq
Robinhood shares began trading on Nasdaq under the ticker HOOD.
Pending - January 28, 2021RH-2021-001
Buying limits in the meme-stock surge
Robinhood temporarily limited buying in certain volatile securities, citing SEC net capital rules and clearinghouse deposits.
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2018
- February 22, 2018RH-2018-001
Crypto trading arrives
Bitcoin and Ethereum trading opened in California, Massachusetts, Missouri, Montana and New Hampshire.
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2015
- March 12, 2015RH-2015-001
Start investing. Stop paying.
Robinhood opened to the public with stock trades that cost no commission and accounts with no minimum, on iPhone.
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2014
- c. 2014RH-2014-001
A waitlist before an app
People queued to trade before they could. By launch day Robinhood had invited all 800,000 people on its waitlist.
Pending
2013
- 2013RH-2013-001
Robinhood starts in Palo Alto
Robinhood began in 2013 in Palo Alto, California, as a brokerage built around trading stocks without commissions.
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