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Why Robinhood Changed His Mind #substack #shorts

23 Oct 2026 · 1 min

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In this YouTube short, the speaker recounts a shift in his perception of Robinhood, moving from indifference to strong approval after observing the company's recent developments. He highlights Robinhood's presence alongside major crypto firms like Coinbase, Kraken, Ripple, and Chainlink in high‑level political settings such as the White House and congressional meetings, interpreting these appearances as credibility signals. The speaker then praises Robinhood’s technical stack—specifically the Robinhood Chain built on Arbitrum and the Legend application—calling them successful innovations. Finally, he notes that Robinhood’s tokenized "X" stocks are genuine assets that can be used as collateral on the Morpho protocol to borrow stablecoins for yield generation, underscoring a new, integrated financial product offering.

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So Robinhood, you know, impressed me a lot with where they were before that I didn't like them too much. And then I saw what they were building and I'm like, okay, for some reason I like them now and more than ever. And they are inside the White House. You know, Coinbase is there, Kraken is there, Ripple's behind the president, Chainlink is in a breakout room with members of Congress. And you have to see this. Yeah. See who's in the room. Those are signals. So Robinhood had, um, you know, built the Robinhood Chain Arbitrum architecture there, and that's been really successful. I like their Legend application. I like everything that they're doing, and I'm kind of surprised to say that, but X stocks are real tokenized stocks. Um, making that available for collateral Through Morpho to be able to get the stablecoin of choice that they would say that you could borrow for yield.