Robinhood Bets Big Outside the US: To Offer Crypto in the UK, but EU Already Gets Perps

Robinhood used a London keynote billed as "The World is Flat" to confirm what UK customers have been waiting for: crypto trading is coming to Britain. In the same announcement, the company revealed it is significantly widening its perpetual futures offering across the wider European market.

The dual reveal, delivered from the Old Royal Naval College, positions the UK and EU as the focal points of Robinhood's next growth phase, even as the company also unveiled a new blockchain, tokenised equities and an expansion into Canada.

UK Crypto Gap Finally Closes

Until now, British users of the app have had access to stocks and other investment products but not crypto, a gap that left Robinhood at a disadvantage against UK-native platforms already offering digital asset trading. The company did not give a firm launch date, saying only that the product is planned to arrive soon.

The confirmation rounds out Robinhood's UK product suite and signals the company is preparing to compete more directly with established crypto platforms in Britain, at a time when FCA scrutiny of crypto promotions and consumer protection remains tight.

Robinhood's perpetual futures product in Europe had previously been limited to crypto assets. That also changes now.

The company is rolling out commodity, ETF and FX perpetuals to eligible investors across the EU, covering gold, silver, WTI and Brent crude oil, EUR/USD and the QQQ and EWY ETFs, all with leverage up to 10x. Robinhood said perpetuals have been one of its fastest-growing products in the EU since the company expanded to 30 European countries last year, and the new asset classes are rolling out in waves to eligible users.

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Robinhood Chain Goes Live

The other centrepiece of the announcement is the public mainnet launch of Robinhood Chain, a Layer 2 blockchain built on Arbitrum. The chain connects directly to Robinhood's on-chain users and launches with day-one partners, including Uniswap, which is deploying a dedicated automated market maker, and prop trading venue Pleiades. Alchemy, BitGo and Chainlink are also integrated.

Sitting at the top of the chain are new Stock Tokens, now live in the Robinhood Wallet across more than 120 countries, though availability varies by jurisdiction. The tokens allow eligible users to trade around the clock and deploy them into DeFi activities such as lending pools or as collateral, through decentralised exchanges including Uniswap, Rialto, Lighter, Arcus and 1inch. The original tokenised shares product has been rebranded as Classic Stock Tokens and remains available in the Robinhood Europe app.

Johann Kerbrat, SVP and General Manager of Crypto and International at Robinhood, said the company is combining traditional finance with decentralised finance to expand ownership globally without requiring users to have technical expertise.

Robinhood Chain is here, and Uniswap is the primary public AMM from day one

Uniswap Protocol and UniswapX are live alongside support in Uniswap Web App, Wallet, and API

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— Uniswap (@Uniswap) July 1, 2026

In the US, Robinhood is starting to roll out Robinhood Earn, a self-custody lending product letting users lend dollar-backed USDG at an estimated 7% APY, insured through Lloyd's of London and RELM. The lending infrastructure runs on the Morpho protocol.

The company is also extending agentic trading, which already covers equities and options, into crypto, letting US users connect AI models to its Trading MCP to execute strategies while humans retain control over capital and risk limits.

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Robinhood now serves close to 28 million customers across 38 countries. The company confirmed it is officially live in Canada following its acquisition of WonderFi, with zero trading fees for Canadian customers until September 30, and said Robinhood Singapore has secured a capital markets services licence from the Monetary Authority of Singapore, a step toward offering brokerage services there.

For European observers, the crypto confirmation in the UK and the leveraged product expansion across the EU are likely to raise the same question: how quickly regulators in each market will respond as Robinhood pushes further into higher-risk, higher-leverage products.