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Robinhood adds bitcoin worth $25 million to its balance sheet

The move puts Robinhood among a growing cohort of public companies holding BTC as a treasury asset. Nasdaq-listed Strategy MSTR$159.69·Market Closed started this trend in 2020 and now its followed by more than 170 firms worldwide.…

Omkar Godbole

Publisher CoinDesk

Oct 7, 2026 at 8:53 AM UTC · 1 min de lecture

Robinhood adds bitcoin worth $25 million to its balance sheet
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The move puts Robinhood among a growing cohort of public companies holding BTC as a treasury asset. Nasdaq-listed Strategy MSTR$159.69·Market Closed started this trend in 2020 and now its followed by more than 170 firms worldwide. Current corporate holders include names such as Tesla, Block, MARA Holdings, CleanSpark, and Riot Platforms, which together account for well over 1.2 million BTC across their balance sheets.

Robinhood, which has over 28 million funded customers globally, is not new to crypto. In July it launched Robinhood Chain, an Ethereum‑compatible Layer 2 built on Arbitrum and geared toward tokenized real‑world assets and decentralized finance.

Since mainnet’s debut, the chain has rolled out tokenized stock products, a stablecoin (USDG), and yield‑bearing lending via Robinhood Earn, while integrating major DeFi protocols like Uniswap and infrastructure from Chainlink, Alchemy, and BitGo.

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A bitcoin treasury allocation by a major publicly listed retail brokerage could reinforce the use of BTC as a corporate reserve asset beyond crypto-native firms. It also signals that Robinhood’s crypto strategy may increasingly connect its large customer base, tokenization products and balance-sheet exposure, though the market impact of the reported purchase alone may be limited.

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  1. Oct 7Robinhood adds bitcoin worth $25 million to its balance sheet
  2. Oct 22Crypto Analyst Warns of Short-Term Price Manipulation in Bitcoin, XRP, and Cardano
  3. Oct 22Crypto Market Wipes Out Both Longs and Shorts as Bitcoin Falls Below $82,000 and Ether Drops Below $2,400
  4. Oct 22Crypto traders seek shelter in bitcoin as altcoins slide and ETF flows wobble
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