Robinhood is a broker dealer firm based in Menlo Park, CA, USA that robinhood markets, inc. (nasdaq: hood) is a us financial services company founded in 2013 by vlad tenev and baiju bhatt and headquartered in menlo park, california. its broker-dealer subsidiaries robinhood financial llc and robinhood securities llc are registered with the sec and are finra members, and robinhood crypto llc offers digital asset trading. it had about 2,900 employees at the end of 2025. in june 2025 robinhood launched tokenized us stock and etf tokens for eu and eea users under mifid ii, later expanding the catalog to more than 2,000 tokens, and announced robinhood chain, a layer 2 blockchain built on the arbitrum stack to settle tokenized assets, which went live on mainnet in 2026. in 2025 it acquired crypto exchange bitstamp for 200 million dollars and canadian platform won They serve clients in US, EU, EEA, UK. Robinhood is listed on The Token Playbook's vetted provider registry at thetokenplaybook.com/registry/robinhood.