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This page changes Robinhood Chain & tokenization inside the complete HOOD model. Every other vertical, corporate programme and valuation assumption stays in the selected portfolio case.

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Horizon
Consolidated fair value $210.06 all other verticals held in this portfolio case
Final-quarter revenue $760M 14% of company revenue
Explicit segment contribution $1.84B EBITDA less segment capex, before corporate items

Tenev's own stated direction, taken at face value: thirteen business lines past $100M annualised become the shape of the company, ownership is broadened through Trump Accounts and Robinhood Ventures, and tokenization moves real assets onto Robinhood Chain. Every line grows and the tokenization bet actually lands. What this case does NOT reach is a Robinhood that has stopped being a brokerage: even here, trading the three listed products is 47% of terminal revenue against 14% for Robinhood Chain, the piece the ownership argument actually rests on. Tokenization is the loudest part of the story and the smallest part of the answer. The case is worth reading as a statement about product velocity, not about a change of business model.

Robinhood Chain & tokenization

Basis quarter$0
Final quarter$760M
Final revenue mix14%

Tokenized assets on Robinhood's own chain: the infrastructure Tenev named in the Q2 release alongside Robinhood Ventures and Trump Accounts. It earns nothing today and Robinhood reports nothing for it, so it starts from zero here. Sized as fees on assets held on-chain rather than as trades, because the point of tokenizing an asset is that it stops moving through a broker.

Last four quarters
2025 Q3 $0 Reported
2025 Q4 $0 Reported
2026 Q1 $0 Reported
2026 Q2 $0 Reported
Tokenized equity and fund assetsOn-chain settlement and custody feesThird-party issuance on Robinhood Chain
Capacity energised 5 $B tokenized at the basis quarter $5B of tokenized assets when the line opens in 2027 Q3 - against $369B of total platform assets today.
Capacity added 2 $B tokenized/qtr changing +8.0% per quarter $2.5B a quarter to start, compounding. This is the input the whole line lives on.
Utilisation 100% gliding toward 100% 100%: every tokenized dollar earns a fee. There is no idle capacity in a ledger.
Revenue per $B tokenized $4.00M/qtr drifting −1.0% per quarter $4M per $1B a quarter, about 16 basis points a year - custody pricing, not trading pricing.
Robinhood Chain & tokenization

Latest: $760M (2031Q2E)

Period Value
2025Q1 $0.00
2025Q2 $0.00
2025Q3 $0.00
2025Q4 $0.00
2026Q1 $0.00
2026Q2 $0.00
2026Q3E $0.00
2026Q4E $0.00
2027Q1E $0.00
2027Q2E $0.00
2027Q3E $38M
2027Q4E $54M
2028Q1E $72M
2028Q2E $93M
2028Q3E $117M
2028Q4E $144M
2029Q1E $176M
2029Q2E $212M
2029Q3E $253M
2029Q4E $300M
2030Q1E $354M
2030Q2E $416M
2030Q3E $486M
2030Q4E $566M
2031Q1E $657M
2031Q2E $760M

Assumptions & reasoning

  • No reported history and no carved-out base. Robinhood has never disclosed a dollar of chain or tokenization revenue, so this line is held at zero across every reported quarter and opens in 2027 Q3 rather than being apportioned out of crypto.
  • The unit is a billion dollars of tokenized assets on the platform, earning about $4M a quarter each - roughly 16 basis points a year, which is custody-and-settlement pricing rather than trading pricing.
  • Four quarters of nothing before the first dollar. European tokenized stock trading is live but tiny, and US tokenized equities need a regulatory answer that does not exist yet - which is the real reason this line starts late rather than small.
  • It is deliberately small even in the bull case. A reader who thinks tokenization is the whole thesis should move the balance growth slider and watch how little the fair value moves - that is the finding, not a limitation of the model.
  • During its four zero-revenue quarters this line books no capital spending, because capex is charged as a share of its own revenue. For a software line the amount charged nowhere is small; for a fab it would not be.
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