Robinhood Taps Ripple's Stablecoin, Treasury Software and Trading Loans

In brief

• Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin went live Tuesday on Robinhood Chain and Bitstamp, and is expected to reach the main Robinhood app later this year.
• Robinhood will adopt Ripple Treasury to run its global cash operations and will use RLUSD on the XRP Ledger for institutional settlement at Bitstamp.
• Ripple Prime already provides Bitstamp with lending across roughly 20 digital assets and is set to add perpetual futures trading there later this year.

Robinhood, the trading app with 28.6 million funded customers, is adding a digital dollar built by Ripple, the company whose founders created the XRP cryptocurrency. Ripple's RLUSD token went live Tuesday on Robinhood's own blockchain and on its Bitstamp exchange, and is expected to reach the main Robinhood app later this year, according to Ripple's announcement.

RLUSD is a stablecoin, a crypto token designed to always be worth one U.S. dollar, which lets money move across a blockchain without waiting for banks to open. It launched in December 2024, and Ripple said its market capitalization, meaning the combined value of every token in circulation, now tops $2.5 billion.

Robinhood will also run its global treasury operations on Ripple Treasury, software that manages a company's cash, from payments to cash-flow forecasts and risk. That includes intercompany netting, which offsets what a company's own divisions owe one another so fewer payments have to move.