Binance's move to offer perpetual futures on US equities highlights the growing convergence of crypto and traditional finance, enhancing market fluidity.
CryptoBriefing•Editorial Team19 Sept
The AMC-Robinhood dispute could redefine regulatory boundaries for tokenized stocks, impacting how public companies control their equity.
CryptoBriefing•Editorial Team15 Sept
Robinhood promises voting rights and share redemption for stock tokens after AMC's CEO attacked them as fake equity.
BeInCrypto•Lockridge Okoth15 Sept
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev explains when issuers should be involved in tokenized stocks and how AMC’s dispute turns on shareholder rights.
AMC CEO Adam Aron questioned whether Robinhood’s stock tokens remain fully backed if collateral shares are lent to short sellers.
CoinDesk•AI Boost11 Sept
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev rejected AMC’s demand to halt its stock tokens, arguing third-party securities do not require issuer consent.
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev defends tokenized stocks on CNBC after AMC CEO Adam Aron called the products contemptible and vile.
BeInCrypto•Darryn Pollock9 Sept
CoinDesk•Helene Braun9 Sept
Robinhood’s AMC stock token gained an onchain premium, but dynamic issuance and arbitrage limited its ability to squeeze the real stock.
The rapid decline highlights the volatility and speculative nature of memecoins, raising concerns about investor risk and market stability.
CryptoBriefing•Editorial Team5 Sept
Uniswap founder Hayden Adams compared Robinhood's and Ondo's stock tokens to early stablecoins on Friday, hours after Dinari co-founder Gabriel Otte called the same instruments "indisputably worse for the end investors than even common stocks." Three models are competing for $2.91 billion of
The Defiant•The Defiant Team5 Sept
Adam Aron threatened legal and SEC scrutiny; Robinhood's legal chief said the Jersey-issued debt product will remain.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright5 Sept
AMC Entertainment CEO Adam Aron has called on Robinhood to stop trading a token linked to AMC shares, triggering a sharp public exchange with Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev. The dispute has spilled into crypto markets, where tokenized AMC is already being traded and paired with meme coins on Robinhood Chain. Robinhood CEO Fires Back as […]
Bitcoin.com News•Emmanuel Musa5 Sept
Adam Aron discovered that Robinhood had tokenized AMC stock on its own blockchain without telling anyone at AMC. His reaction set off a corporate brawl that exposed the biggest unresolved question in tokenized finance: who gets to decide what happens…
Robinhood Chain’s rapid growth ran into two problems at once on Sept. 4 as the network briefly stopped producing blocks while AMC challenged its fast-growing Stock Token business. On Sept. 4, the Ethereum layer-2 network halted block production for at least 14 minutes, stalling transactions before activity began recovering. Robinhood had not publicly disclosed the […]
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo5 Sept
Robinhood has rejected AMC Entertainment’s demand to halt an AMC-linked token, turning a dispute over one of its 189 stock products into a test of how US rules may treat third-party tokenized equities. Robinhood chief legal officer Dan Gallagher refused…
AMC’s fight with Robinhood Stock Tokens sent CINEMA soaring alongside the actual AMC stock.
AMC, the world’s largest movie theater chain, wants its tokenized stocks removed from Robinhood, and it’s causing a huge meltdown on social media. AMC wants the tokens removed because they trade on Robinhood using its stock price and branding even though buyers do not actually own AMC shares. CEO Adam Aron argues that investors could
BeInCrypto•Lockridge Okoth4 Sept
AMC’s fight with Robinhood Stock Tokens sent CINEMA soaring, alongside the actual AMC stock, showing how tokenized stocks can be guerrilla marketing machines for public companies.
