Overview
- Ethereum and Solana staking goes live for New York customers on December 9, with broader U.S. availability pending regulatory clearance.
- European users gain perpetual futures on XRP, SOL, DOGE, and SUI with up to 7x leverage, expanding beyond earlier Bitcoin and Ether contracts.
- Europe also gets over 1,000 tokenized U.S. stocks, money market funds managed by partners such as J.P. Morgan, automatic investments, and a web platform slated for later this month.
- In the U.S., Robinhood adds seven fee tiers with rates starting at 0.03% for high‑volume traders, introduces cost‑basis entry for crypto deposits on December 22, and plans API fee‑tier support in January 2026.
- Robinhood names its EVM‑compatible Layer‑2 network Robinhood Chain, described as built on Arbitrum to support on‑chain assets, as the company cites $232 billion in annual crypto trading volume and $51 billion in assets under custody.