Robinhood has formally introduced the acquisition of Bitstamp, one in all Europe’s longest-standing digital asset exchanges.
The $200 million all-cash deal, accomplished with out modifications from its 2024 settlement, provides Robinhood entry to over 50 regulatory licenses and a strong consumer base throughout the UK, Europe, and Asia.
Bitstamp, which brings in most of its quantity from institutional exercise, at the moment serves 5,000 giant purchasers alongside 50,000 retail customers. Whereas Robinhood’s crypto division earned $252 million in simply Q1 2025, Bitstamp contributed $95 million over the previous yr. The mixing is already underway, with Bitstamp’s system now linked to Robinhood’s inner infrastructure, together with its Legend and Good Trade Routing instruments.
Along with the Bitstamp acquisition, Robinhood just lately introduced a separate deal to buy Canadian crypto agency WonderFi for $179 million, reinforcing its intent to develop past U.S. borders.
Regardless of the worldwide push, Robinhood’s ambitions aren’t restricted to geographical enlargement. CEO Vladimir Tenev sees tokenization of real-world belongings as the corporate’s subsequent frontier. Talking in the course of the agency’s earnings name, he stated non-public fairness tokenization may remodel secondary markets by making historically illiquid shares—similar to these in OpenAI or SpaceX—accessible inside minutes.
Kerbrat, head of Robinhood Crypto, hinted at extra acquisitions forward, noting that accelerating development by as much as two years by sensible offers stays a strategic precedence.
Robinhood inventory closed 2.77% increased on June 2, with modest positive aspects in after-hours buying and selling, as buyers reacted to the corporate’s widening crypto ambitions.
