Robinhood rolls out public blockchain, plans crypto trading for UK residents

Robinhood rolls out public blockchain, plans crypto trading for UK residents

The company announced a suite of DeFi products, plans for launching crypto trading in the UK, and its public mainnet after months of testing.

Source: Robinhood

The launch of the public mainnet came just a few weeks after Tenev announced that Robinhood would cut 10% of its workforce as part of a restructuring move. The company is expected to announce its 2026 second-quarter results on July 29, but reported in April that its crypto transaction revenue dropped by almost 50% year-on-year, from $252 million to $134 million.

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The company also introduced Robinhood Earn, a decentralized product that allows users to lend USDG, a dollar-backed stablecoin, through a self-custody wallet at an estimated 7% annual percentage yield. Robinhood shares rose about 8% on Wednesday.

Robinhood is entering an increasingly competitive L2 market dominated by networks such as Base, the Coinbase-backed blockchain. In June, Base experienced two outages within hours of each other, which the engineering team later reported had been the result of a sequencer bug. The mainnet is the second-largest layer 2 network by total value secured at about $11 billion.

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