{"id":52695,"date":"2026-10-07T10:51:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T10:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptomag.finance\/?p=52695"},"modified":"2026-10-07T10:51:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T10:51:39","slug":"robinhood-adds-25-million-in-bitcoin-to-its-balance-sheet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptomag.finance\/?p=52695","title":{"rendered":"Robinhood Adds $25 Million in Bitcoin to Its Balance Sheet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Robinhood now holds Bitcoin on its own books and is among a growing list of BTC treasury companies. News that the trading platform had bought $25 million worth of BTC for its corporate balance sheet, its first such purchase, came out today when Robinhood\u2019s senior vice president and general manager of crypto and international, Johann Kerbrat disclosed the buy in an interview on The Block\u2019s The Starting Block. Kerbrat made the announcement on the same day he was speaking at Token2049 in Singapore.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kebrat made it clear about why the company made the purchase. He told The Block that the reason was to line up the company\u2019s vision with the crypto community. He was just as quick to play down the size of the purchase. With Robinhood valued at around $100 billion, he said the position is \u201cnot going to change a lot of the current trajectory of the company\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Bitcoin Buy Is About 0.025% of Robinhood\u2019s Market Cap\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Robinhood shares closed at $112 on Tuesday, leaving the company with a marketcap of roughly $100 billion. The new Bitcoin holding works out to about 0.025% of that. The buy is also smaller than what Strategy picked up last week alone. Michael Saylor\u2019s firm bought 334 BTC for about $28.7 million between September 28 and October 4, taking its total holdings to 848,000 BTC.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cryptopolitan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-11-1024x360.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-316801\" \/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Compared with what sits on Robinhood\u2019s platform, the gap gets wider still. According to data from <a href=\"https:\/\/arkm.com\/explorer\/entity\/robinhood\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arkham<\/a>, the company holds 185,232K BTC, valued at $15.57 billion, in custody for customers. At least for now, this latest news reads more like a gesture to crypto users than a treasury strategy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Real Crypto Spending Is Going Into Perps and Robinhood Chain<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Robinhood\u2019s heavier commitments to crypto sit on the product side. Last week, the company <a href=\"https:\/\/robinhood.com\/newsroom\/hood-summit-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> eligible U.S. users will be able to trade perpetual futures in the coming months, going long or short on BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, DOGE, ADA, LINK and HYPE. CEO Vlad Tenev called it \u201ca new chapter for U.S. derivatives\u201d in a post on X.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Robinhood is bringing America its first true perps.<\/p>\n<p>No expiry, with P&amp;L settled every 15 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>A new chapter for US derivatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vlad Tenev (@vladtenev) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/vladtenev\/status\/2105089165750853975?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 30, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Robinhood Chain, the layer 2 built on Arbitrum\u2019s tech stack, went live on mainnet in July. Its total value locked stood at $1.05 billion as of Tuesday, per <a href=\"https:\/\/defillama.com\/chain\/robinhood-chain\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DefiLlama<\/a>. Kerbrat has pointed to the platform\u2019s 28 million funded accounts, 27 million of them in the U.S., as distribution few L2s can match.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"442\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cryptopolitan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-13-1024x442.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-316803\" \/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tokenized stocks are growing fast enough to bump against regulation. In a separate interview with The Block last week, Kerbrat said Stock Token volume is already high enough to hit the caps set under the SEC\u2019s innovation exemption for tokenized U.S. equities.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bitcoin Trades Near $84,000 as the Purchase Lands<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The timing comes during a rough patch for the market. Bitcoin briefly slipped below $84,000 on Oct. 6 as long liquidations across crypto climbed to $487 million, and is trading near $84K currently.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A $25 million buy will not move the price on its own. What matters more is whether Robinhood comes back for more. Repeat purchases on a set schedule, or a policy that ties buys to crypto revenue, would put the company in a different category from where it sits today. For now, the custody book and the product roadmap say a lot more about Robinhood\u2019s crypto exposure than its balance sheet does.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-news-ad\" data-rand=\"0.592101\">Don\u2019t just read crypto news. Understand it. Subscribe to our newsletter. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cryptopolitan.com\/newsletters\/?utm_source=cp&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_campaign=inlineAds\" target=\"_blank\">It&#8217;s free<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robinhood now holds Bitcoin on its own books and is among a growing list of BTC treasury companies. News that the trading platform had bought $25 million worth of BTC for its corporate balance sheet, its first such purchase, came out today when Robinhood\u2019s senior vice president and general manager of crypto and international, Johann [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-bitcoin"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Robinhood Adds $25 Million in Bitcoin to Its Balance Sheet - Cryptomag<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptomag.finance\/?p=52695\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Robinhood Adds $25 Million in Bitcoin to Its Balance Sheet - Cryptomag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Robinhood now holds Bitcoin on its own books and is among a growing list of BTC treasury companies. 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