Robinhood has finally launched today its highly anticipated crypto trading for bitcoin and ethereum, allowing its now 4 million investors to trade cryptocurrencies alongside stocks, ETFs, and options on the same platform. The feature is being gradually rolled out to people residing in five American states.
Robinhood Adds Bitcoin and Ether Trading
Robinhood, the Palo Alto-headquartered US stocks brokerage app, has begun today to gradually enable access to BTC and ETH trading to its customers residing in California, Massachusetts, Missouri, Montana, and New Hampshire. Assuming that the launch will be as successful as expected, the company promises to add in many more states later on.
The service already offers market data on 16 cryptocurrencies in the form of bitcoin, ethereum, bitcoin cash, litecoin, ripple, ethereum classic, zcash, monero, dash, stellar, qtum, bitcoin gold, omisego, neo, lisk and dogecoin.
The Robinhood in-app feed
The company also announced today details of Robinhood Feed, a way to discuss cryptocurrencies, news, and market swings in real-time with other investors on the platform. Feed will only be made available to a limited number of platform users right now.
$4 Million Strong
The excitement and anticipation about cryptocurrency trading among young Americans has evidently helped the company achieve remarkable growth in a very short time. Soon after Robinhood announced it would add cryptocurrencies, over a million people were waiting in line to get early access to the commission-free trading service. It now boasts of having over 4 million users, up from just 3 million reported in November 2017.
The app team stated today: “Over the past few weeks, we’ve been overwhelmed by the enthusiasm towards Robinhood Crypto and are excited to contribute to the cryptocurrency community in a meaningful way. Together, we reached four million users and well over $100 billion in transaction volume on our brokerage platform, leading to over $1 billion in commissions saved in equity trades. With the release of Robinhood Crypto, we’re continuing our mission of making the financial system work for everyone, not just the wealthy.”
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