Overview
- Robinhood has closed its $200 million all-cash purchase of Bitstamp, marking its official entry into institutional crypto services.
- The deal adds over 50 active crypto licences across Europe, the UK and Asia to Robinhood’s regulatory network.
- Bitstamp brings more than 500,000 retail accounts and about 5,000 funded institutional clients, with $95 million in revenue through April.
- Robinhood expects to record roughly $65 million in Bitstamp-related operating costs over the remaining seven months of 2025.
- The company will maintain Bitstamp’s existing interfaces while exploring deeper integration to offer institutional flows, lending, staking and crypto-as-a-service.