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Robinhood Launches ETH and SOL Staking in New York, Expands EU Futures and Stock Tokens

The company is positioning crypto as the engine of a broader on-chain finance platform.

Overview

  • Staking for Ethereum and Solana goes live Dec. 9 for New York customers, with nationwide access pending regulatory clearance.
  • In Europe, eligible users can trade new perpetual futures pairs—XRP, SOL, DOGE, and SUI—with up to 7x leverage following MiCA and MiFID approvals.
  • EU and EEA customers gain 24/7 access to more than 1,000 tokenized U.S. stocks and new money market funds managed by partners such as J.P. Morgan.
  • U.S. updates include seven fee tiers with rates as low as 0.03% for the highest-volume traders and manual cost-basis entry for crypto deposits starting Dec. 22, with API fee-tier support planned for January 2026.
  • Robinhood formally named its EVM-compatible Layer-2 Robinhood Chain to support asset tokenization, and it is exploring an acquisition-led entry into Indonesia according to Decrypt.