Robinhood's Plan to Bring Global Finance Onchain | Johann Kerbrat
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Robinhood's Plan to Bring Global Finance Onchain | Johann Kerbrat

B1IntermediateJuly 27, 202642 min
  • Interview
  • Business & money

What happens when Robinhood turns crypto from a trading feature into the backbone of its global financial platform? This week, Robinhood's GM of Crypto, Johann Kerbrat, explains how Robinhood Chain connects DeFi, tokenized assets, and mainstream users. We explore global access, permissionless development, strategic partnerships, token economics, and whether equities and crypto eventually converge. Enjoy! TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Intro 00:59 Robinhood’s Onchain Vision 04:46 Will Robinhood Move Fully Onchain? 11:07 Inside Robinhood Chain’s Explosive Launch 14...

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Nothing said on Empire is a recommendation to buy or sell any investments or products. All right, everyone. Welcome back to Empire. Very excited about this one. We've got the head of crypto at Robinhood, Johan. Johan, how you doing, man? Good. How are you? Very good. Long time to see. You've been busy. Yeah, it's been fun. Yeah, I remember when was our last chat? Das? Yeah,

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that's right. And you were like, there's a lot of stuff coming. I can't fully tell you everything, there's a lot coming so i didn't lie there was a lot of no you did not you did not i've never known you to lie man um tell me about the evolution of i remember so vlad i don't know if you were at robin hood then i would guess you were vlad gave a keynote at permissionless one of our conferences

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in 2022 i think it was in palm beach yeah yeah and kind of announced you know they're launching this crypto wallet and that was for me like that i mean there's also our conference on bias but i I think of that as like the moment Robinhood started really pushing. Can you just, maybe we start macro with this and then go micro.

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