Robinhood Announces Tokenized Stocks — live with Vlad Tenev, Johann Kerbrat and AJ Warner
The launch event itself: Robinhood and Arbitrum announcing tokenized stocks, on the record.
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Interviews, analysis and criticism worth your time — from the people building the chain and the people questioning it. These are third-party videos: Locksley doesn't produce or endorse them, every channel is named, and the claims in them belong to the speakers.
FROM THE OPERATORS
Robinhood and Arbitrum leadership on the record.
Robinhood Chain Takes on NYSE/Nasdaq — Johann Kerbrat (Bankless)
Pre-launch interview on what the chain was built to enable for builders, and how Robinhood sees the incumbent exchanges.
Robinhood Chain is Changing Crypto — Johann Kerbrat (Thinking Crypto)
A recent Kerbrat interview on what makes the chain distinct and where it sits in the layer-2 stack.
Robinhood's Plan to Bring Global Finance Onchain — Kerbrat (Empire)
Kerbrat walks Blockworks through the plan to move global finance onchain, step by step.
How Robinhood Chain Hit Its First Month's Numbers (Converge × The Defiant)
Robinhood's head of product on the chain's first month of activity and how the team measures it.
Robinhood's Plan to Make Onchain Finance Mainstream (Bankless)
The strategy conversation: how Robinhood intends to make onchain finance a mainstream product.
Why Public Blockchains Will Win — Johann Kerbrat (The Defiant)
Kerbrat's clearest case for building on a public, permissionless chain instead of a private one.
27 Million Accounts, Onchain (Crypto In America)
A long-form conversation about moving Robinhood's tens of millions of accounts onchain.
Robinhood's Earn Product — Johann Kerbrat (Tokenized)
The mechanics behind the Earn product — how the yield is generated and what backs it.
Robinhood's Crypto Comeback — Kerbrat (threadguy)
Kerbrat on Robinhood's crypto comeback and what onboarding retail actually takes.
Robinhood Chain Launch — Steven Goldfeder, Offchain Labs (Paul Barron Network)
The infrastructure side of the launch, from the Arbitrum co-founder who built the rails.
How Robinhood Plans to Bring Stocks Onchain — Kerbrat & AJ Warner
Robinhood and Arbitrum together on how stocks actually get brought onchain.
Inside Robinhood's Crypto Strategy — Johann Kerbrat
A full walkthrough of Robinhood's crypto strategy in one sitting.
Robinhood Just Changed Crypto Investing & Tokenization — Kerbrat
Kerbrat on what tokenization changes for ordinary investors.
Johann Kerbrat at Arbitrum Everywhere
Kerbrat at Arbitrum's own event — the partnership seen from the inside.
ANALYSTS & ECOSYSTEM
Outside views on the chain's growth, economics and place in the stack.
Why Robinhood Chain and Lighter Both Bet on Ethereum (The Rollup)
The composability thesis, argued through Robinhood Chain and Lighter.
How Robinhood's Chain Grew So Fast (Coinage)
A short report on the chain's early TVL growth and where the money actually sits.
Robinhood Is Taking Over Crypto (Coin Bureau)
A mainstream crypto channel's overview of Robinhood's push into the industry.
Why Robinhood Launched Its Own Blockchain (Yahoo Finance)
A general-audience explainer on why Robinhood built its own chain.
Top 10 dApps on Robinhood Chain (AltCryptoTalk)
A tour of applications running on the chain — the closest thing to an ecosystem map on video.
Robinhood Chain: The Next Big Thing? (Because Bitcoin)
A trader-side conversation about the chain's prospects.
Vlad Tenev on Tokenizing Stocks (All-In Podcast)
Tenev on tokenized stocks and expanding abroad — recorded well before mainnet, useful as strategy context.
Tenev: Tokenization Will Take Over the Financial System (CNBC)
Seven minutes of Tenev's case for tokenization, made to a general audience.
Why Robinhood Picked Arbitrum to Tokenize Stocks
Why Robinhood chose Arbitrum's stack, from the ecosystem's point of view.
Why Institutions Are Choosing Arbitrum
What institutions see in Arbitrum — Robinhood, BlackRock and tokenized stocks in one thesis.
THE BEAR CASE
The strongest criticism we could find. Watch these before you act on any of the rest.
The Problem With Robinhood's Tokenized Stock Offering (The Plain Bagel)
The strongest critique available: what a tokenized stock legally is — and isn't — argued through Robinhood's European offering.
Robinhood Chain Has a Problem (Khalid on Crypto)
A long-form contrarian take on the chain — included so the bear case gets a full hearing.
Where Robinhood Chain's Fees Actually Flow
A skeptical analysis of the chain's fee economics.
