Robinhood Crypto and Bitget Wallet have launched a partnership that lets retail investors trade tokenized stocks 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, directly on blockchain infrastructure without needing a traditional brokerage account. The integration gives Bitget Wallet's 90 million users access to over 90 stock tokens, including mega-cap companies like NVIDIA, Google, and Apple, as well as index trackers such as Invesco QQQ.

This partnership represents a meaningful step in how traditional finance institutions are moving toward onchain infrastructure. Robinhood Chain, an Ethereum Layer 2 (a faster, cheaper blockchain built on top of Ethereum) built using Arbitrum's Orbit technology, serves as the foundation for this ecosystem. Unlike most real-world asset (RWA) tokenization protocols that rely on third-party custodians or synthetic structures, Robinhood Chain allows stock tokens to settle transparently and be held directly by users in self-custody, meaning individuals control their own private keys rather than trusting an intermediary.

What Makes This Different From Traditional Stock Trading?

Traditional stock markets operate during set business hours, typically 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Eastern Time on weekdays. International investors face geographic barriers, account requirements, and limited access to global markets. Tokenized stocks on Robinhood Chain eliminate these friction points. Bitget Wallet users can now trade stock tokens representing some of the world's most traded companies without opening a brokerage account, without geographic restrictions, and without waiting for market hours to end.

The integration is live on mainnet, with full trading functionality, market data, and decentralized application (dApp) access rolling out in the coming weeks. Robinhood Chain is designed as a permissionless network, meaning it is open to third-party developers, exchanges, and lending platforms, creating a full financial ecosystem rather than a single protocol.

How Does This Benefit Retail Investors?

• No Brokerage Account Required: Users can trade stock tokens directly through their Bitget Wallet without meeting traditional account opening requirements or identity verification procedures that traditional brokers impose.
• 24/7 Market Access: Stock tokens can be traded at any time, day or night, removing the constraint of traditional market hours and allowing investors to react to global news and events instantly.
• Self-Custody and Transparency: Stock tokens settle onchain and are held directly by users, eliminating counterparty risk and providing transparent, verifiable ownership without relying on custodians.
• Global Market Participation: Geographic barriers are removed, allowing users worldwide to access tokenized versions of major U.S. and international equities and index funds from a single onchain account.
• Unified Asset Management: Users can hold crypto, tokenized stocks, and other tokenized assets in one account, simplifying portfolio management and reducing the need for multiple platforms.

Robinhood Crypto's leadership emphasized the institutional significance of this shift. "Robinhood has always believed the financial system should work for everyone," stated Gaëtan Thabot, Director of Partnerships at Robinhood Crypto. "Robinhood Chain takes that further, creating open onchain infrastructure where Stock Tokens settle transparently and are held directly by users. Partnering with Bitget Wallet extends that reach to 90 million users worldwide".

"Millions of people want access to global markets but face real barriers, account requirements, market hours, geography. This partnership removes those barriers, stock tokens representing some of the world's most traded companies, no brokerage required, through one onchain account. This is what it looks like when traditional finance and onchain infrastructure meet, institutions tokenizing real-world assets, with self-custody built in from the start," said Alvin Kan, Chief Operating Officer of Bitget Wallet.

Alvin Kan, Chief Operating Officer at Bitget Wallet

What Does This Mean for the Broader Tokenization Landscape?

This partnership signals a critical inflection point in how Wall Street and crypto infrastructure are converging. Robinhood, which operates 27.7 million funded accounts and manages over $377 billion in assets on its platform, is now building onchain infrastructure for tokenized equities and exchange-traded products (ETPs). By integrating with Bitget Wallet, a self-custodial wallet supporting over 1 million tokens across 130 blockchains, the partnership demonstrates that institutional-grade tokenization is moving beyond pilot programs and into production systems serving tens of millions of users.

The permissionless design of Robinhood Chain is particularly significant. Rather than creating a closed ecosystem controlled by a single company, Robinhood has built infrastructure that third-party developers, exchanges, and lending platforms can build upon. This approach mirrors how Ethereum and other open blockchains have fostered innovation, but applied to regulated financial assets like stocks and bonds.

For retail investors, this partnership removes long-standing barriers to global market participation. For institutions, it demonstrates a viable path to tokenizing real-world assets while maintaining regulatory compliance and user custody. The combination of Robinhood's regulatory expertise, Bitget Wallet's user base, and Arbitrum's scaling technology creates a foundation for what could become a significant alternative to traditional brokerage infrastructure.