Q1 2026 Robinhood Markets Inc Earnings Call

April 28, 2026

Speaker #1: Thank you to everyone for joining Robinhood's Q1 2026 earnings call. Whether you're tuning into the livestream or here with us in person, with us today are Chairman and CEO Vlad Tenev, CFO Shiv Verma, and VP of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations, Chris Cagle.

Operator: Thank you to everyone for joining Robinhood's Q1 2026 earnings call, whether you're tuning into the live stream or here with us in person. With us today are Chairman and CEO, Vlad Tenev, CFO, Shiv Verma, and VP of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations, Chris Koegel. Vlad and Shiv will offer opening remarks and then open the call to Q&A. During the Q&A portion of the call, we will answer questions from the audience, which includes institutional research analysts, finance content creators who may hold an ownership position in Robinhood, and both institutional and retail shareholders. As a reminder, today's call will contain forward-looking statements. Actual results could differ materially from our current expectations, we may not provide updates unless legally required.

Speaker #1: reminder, today's call will contain forward-looking statements. Actual results could differ materially from our current expectations, and we may not provide updates unless legally required.

Operator: Potential risk factors that could cause differences, including regulatory developments that we continue to monitor, are described in the press release we issued today, the earnings presentation, and our SEC filings, all of which can be found at investors.robinhood.com. Today's discussion will also include non-GAAP financial measures. Reconciliations to the GAAP measures we consider most directly comparable can be found in the earnings presentation. With that, please welcome Vlad and Shiv.

Vlad Tenev: All right. All right. How's everyone doing? I've been told that this may be the first-ever outdoor earnings call in history. Can you believe that?

Shiv Verma: Very cool.

Vlad Tenev: Shiv, they told us before we went public that earnings calls aren't gonna be very much fun, that they're gonna be a chore, that actually being public wouldn't be very much fun. I think part of what we're trying to do is improve the branding of being a public company. I think that's gonna be pretty important. The branding of it has been very negative.

Vlad Tenev: Maybe that's contributing to companies staying private longer and longer and retail shareholders being left out of all those potential returns. Yeah, hopefully you guys find this informative and also entertaining, and we can shift the perception of what it means to be a public company slowly but surely. We're back at our HQ in Menlo Park with a growing audience of in-person folks, shareholders, and analysts. Thank you all for being here. Before I get into the meat of it of Q1, I wanna highlight a historic milestone in our mission to democratize finance for all, Trump Accounts. We announced a few weeks ago that Robinhood will be the broker and sole initial trustee for the Trump Accounts under the direction of the US Department of the Treasury.

Part of what we're trying to do is improve the branding of being a public company, and I think that's going to be pretty important. The branding of it has been very negative, and maybe that's contributing to companies staying private longer and longer, and retail shareholders being left out of all those potential returns. So, yeah, hopefully you guys find this informative and also entertaining, and we can ship.

ship the perception of what it means to be a public company slowly but surely

So we're back at our HQ in Menlo Park.

With a growing audience of uh, in-person folks, shareholders and analysts. So, thank you all for being here. Before I get into the meat of it of q1, I want to highlight a historic milestone in our mission to democratize finance for all.

Trump accounts.

Vlad Tenev: Over 5.5 million American children are already signed up and over 60 million are eligible. These children will now experience the power of equity ownership in the US stock market, which we believe is the greatest engine of wealth creation in human history. It's an incredible honor to be trusted by the US Department of the Treasury and to partner with BNY, America's oldest bank, which was appointed as financial agent to manage the program. By developing and managing the new Trump Accounts app, we're getting Robinhood technology in front of the next generation of investors, 60 million of them. This is also a new way to extend Robinhood's mission beyond just retail and institutional to helping governments and building a public sector business, which we actually see as a big opportunity and we can really help there.

Okay, we announced a few weeks ago that Robin Hood will be the broker and sold initial trustee for the Trump accounts under the direction of the US Department of the treasury.

And over 5.5 million American children are already signed up and over 60 million 660 are eligible. So these children will now experience the power of equity ownership in the US Stock Market, which we believe is the greatest engine of wealth creation in human history.

It's an incredible honor to be trusted by the United States Department of Treasury and to partner with bny America's oldest bank, which was appointed as Financial agent to manage the program and by developing, and managing the new Trump accounts app. We're getting Robinhood technology in front of the next generation of investors, 60 million of them. This is also a new way to extend Robin Hood's Mission Beyond just retail and institutional to uh helping governments and building a public sector business, which we actually see as a big opportunity.

Vlad Tenev: Our hope and aspiration is that this should be the best technology product that the government has ever built or been associated with. We're really excited about this. Let's get to Q1. As a reminder, we're focused on a three-part strategy. Number one in active traders, number one in wallet share for the next generation, and of course, our long-term mark, number one global financial ecosystem. Active traders. If you're an active trader, we want you to feel like you're at a disadvantage trading anywhere besides Robinhood. Using another brokerage or another financial platform, that should be a irresponsible and irrational decision. That's the goal. A few things to highlight there. As we continue shipping great products for our customers, in Q1, we saw record levels across prediction markets, futures, index options, shorting, and margin.

And and we can really help there. Now, our hope and aspiration is

that this should be the best technology product that the government has ever built or been associated with. So, um,

we're really excited about this.

Now let's get to q1. So as a reminder we're focused on a 3-part strategy, number 1 in active Traders, number 1 in wallet, share for the next generation and of course our long-term work number 1, Global Financial ecosystem.

So, active traders, we want—if you're an active trader, we want you to feel like you're at a disadvantage trading anywhere besides Robinhood. So, using another brokerage or another financial platform—that should be an irresponsible and irrational decision. That's the goal.

so, a few things to highlight their

Vlad Tenev: Our active traders were very active. We saw double-digit year-over-year growth in equity and option volumes as well. Looking at prediction markets specifically, we're really spending time getting ready for the Q2 launch of our JV with Susquehanna. This is our exchange, Rothera, and that's coming later this quarter. Very excited about that. Today, Robinhood is the largest retail brokerage firm in prediction markets, and we've been one of the first to adopt a new asset class. Susquehanna is one of the largest market makers, and in the past, up until now, we've been relying on third-party exchanges. With the launch of Rothera, this vertical integration gives us a couple of things. It really gives us end-to-end control of the customer experience, including product selection and pricing.

As we continue shipping, great products for our customers. In q1, we saw record levels across prediction markets, Futures index, options, shorting and margin. So our active Traders were very active.

Uh, we saw double digit year-over-year growth in equity and option volumes as well. So that's been great to see. Now looking at prediction markets, specifically we're really spending time getting ready for the Q2 launch of our JB with susua. This is our exchange rothera and that's coming later this quarter. So very excited about that. Now today Robinhood is the largest retail brokerage firm in prediction markets and

We've been 1 of the first to adopt the new asset class Seuss. Kuana is 1 of the largest market makers and in the past up until now we've been relying on third-party exchanges with the launch of rothera this, vertical integration gives us a couple of things.

Vlad Tenev: We'll have more control over what products and what pricing we can offer to customers, which I think is going to be very, very nice. Moving on, Robinhood Social. Strong engagement. We've rolled out Robinhood Social to the first 10,000 customers, and what we're hearing is they absolutely love verified profiles. They love verified returns and trades. If you remember, the value prop for Robinhood Social, as opposed to other social media platforms or places where you can chat about your finances, is you have a guarantee that customers have actual skin in the game with real positions and real returns. It seems like that's proving out. People love that, and we're working to add new requested features on a weekly basis.

And what pricing we can offer to customers, which I think is is going to be very, very nice.

Moving on Robin Hood, social strong engagement, we've rolled out Robin Hood social to the first 10,000 customers. And what we're hearing is they absolutely love verified profiles. They love verified returns and trades. So if you remember the, the value prop for Robin Hood social, as opposed to other social media platforms or or places, where you can chat about your finances is, you have a guarantee that customers have actual skin in the game with real positions and real returns.

Vlad Tenev: These are things like live stock charts, expanded personal profiles, tools to find other traders, and we're also bringing popular creators on the platform. There's really been strong demand from creators to participate in this network. Second, wallet share. We are building our customers' financial super app. We can see that this is starting to resonate with customers. Across retirement, gold credit card, strategies, and banking, customers added 500,000 funded accounts in Q1 and more than 1.5 million in the past year. We're really continuing to broaden the offering beyond just brokerage. I give a special highlight to Robinhood Banking. Robinhood Banking grew 5x since the last earnings. It's rapidly become a leading premium digital banking offering, and I think it's really one of a kind in that category.

And it seems like that's proving out. People love that, and we're working to add new requested features on a weekly basis. So these are things like live stock charts, expanded personal profiles, tools to find other traders. And we're also bringing popular creators onto the platform. And there's really been strong demand from creators to participate in this network.

Second wallet share. We are building our customers' financial super app. We can see that this is starting to resonate with customers across retirement, gold, credit card, strategies, and banking. Customers added 500,000 funded accounts in Q1 and more than 1.5 million in the past year. And so we're really continuing to broaden the offering beyond just brokerage. I'd give a special highlight to Robinhood Banking.

Vlad Tenev: Over $2 billion in net deposits, over 125,000 funded customers, I think most interestingly, a 40% direct deposit rate. Okay, that's a 40% direct deposit attach rate, which tells us this isn't just an add-on to your brokerage account for keeping your extra cash. People are thinking about this as a primary bank account. I think that gets me very excited. I know Shiv as well. Gold Card. Okay, Gold Cards have also surpassed 800,000 customers with annualized purchase volume, APV, of $15 billion. This is a heavy purchasing card already. The credit performance continues to be strong, we're on track to surpass 1 million cards and $100 million ARR this year, well before the end of the year as well.

So Robin Hood banking grew 5x since the last earnings, it's rapidly become a leading premium digital banking offering, and I think it's really 1 of a kind in that category over 2 billion in net, deposits, over 125,000, funded customers and I think most interestingly a 40% direct deposit rate. Okay. So that's a 40% direct deposit. Attach rate which tells us this isn't just an add-on to your brokerage account for keeping your extra cash. People are thinking about this as a primary bank account so I think uh that that gets me very excited. I know ship as well, gold card. Okay, gold credit cards have also a surpassed 800,000 customers with annualized purchase volume APV of 15 billion dollars. So this is a heavy purchasing card already. The credit performance continues to be strong and we're on track to surpass 1 million cards and 100 million.

Vlad Tenev: Demand for the new Platinum card, which if you guys saw the Take Flight event, I mean, it was very popular. The card is, I believe, the heaviest credit card on the market. Demand for it has exceeded our expectations. We look forward to rolling out in the coming months, and we're responding to initial feedback. The great thing about this team, they iterate, and I think you're gonna see a better product than what was even unveiled. That's very exciting. Moving on to our third and long-term arc, global financial ecosystem. We're making progress as we expand to different markets around the world. International's picking up, and we approach 1 million funded customers. We plan to launch crypto in Canada around midyear. Remember, this is via our WonderFi acquisition from last year.

ARR this year and well, before the end of the year, as well demand for the new Platinum Card, which if you guys saw the take flight event, um, I mean, it was very popular. The, the card is, uh, I believe the heaviest credit card on the market. So, uh, demand for it has exceeded our expectations. We look forward to rolling out in the coming months and we're responding to initial feedback. So, the great thing about this team, they iterate, and I think you're going to, you're going to see a better product.

Was even unveiled, so that's very exciting.

Moving on to our third and long-term Mark Global Financial ecosystem. We're making progress as we expand to different markets around the world.

Vlad Tenev: We have received in-principle approval from regulators in Singapore to offer a comprehensive suite of brokerage services there. That's a big deal. Bitstamp continues to win institutional customers, gaining market share, and we're enhancing the offering. In particular, there's been a lot of interest in institutional lending, so you're gonna see us digging in and doing more there. Across the entirety of the business, we're really turbocharging Robinhood with AI as well. If you think about the impact of AI on our business, it's actually three different things. First, we're aggressively leveraging AI to drive efficiency and productivity internally. We've been doing this for a long time, and Shiv will talk a little bit more about the wins we've been seeing there. The second thing, we continue to give customers access to the highest quality AI-powered tools.

Internationals picking up and we approached 1 million funded customers. We plan to launch crypto in Canada around mid-year. Remember this is VR, wonderfi acquisition from last year and we have received in-principle approval from regulators and Singapore to offer a comprehensive Suite of brokerage Services there. So that's a big deal.

Bitstamp continues to win, institutional customers, gaining market, share. And we're enhancing the offering in particular. There's been a lot of interest in institutional lending, so you're going to see as digging in and and doing more there.

Across the entirety of the business. We're really turbocharging Robin Hood with AI as well. And, uh, if you think about the impact of AI on our business, it's actually 3 different things. So first, we're aggressively leveraging, AI to drive efficiency and productivity internally. We've been doing this for a long time and

Vlad Tenev: Robinhood Cortex, which we unveiled about a year ago, used by nearly 1 million customers so far. This is like AI intelligence throughout the Robinhood app. You can see it in the stock digests, and you can now see it in Cortex Assistant, which is our AI assistant within the product. Now that's rolling out. That's rolled out actually to all Gold customers. We're putting the financial intelligence coupled with our market data in your pocket. Customers are using it to do portfolio and P&L analysis. They're using it for stock research and stock screening, and you should expect to see it get better and better. I think we really love what we're seeing there. We're also, you could tell last December there was a step change in the agentic capabilities in these AI models.

And Shiv will talk a little bit more about the wins we've been seeing there. The second thing we've been, and we've continued to give customers access to the highest-quality, AI-powered tools. So Robinhood Cortex, which we unveiled about a year ago, is used by nearly 1 million customers so far. So this is like AI intelligence throughout the Robinhood app. You can see it in the stock digest, and you can now

Vlad Tenev: Of course, we're working to bring the frontier capabilities into your product, and we've been spending a lot of time chiseling what an agentic product could look like. Stay tuned there. Third, this is an interesting one, AI is affecting the markets and investors. One of the things that we've been spending a lot of time on is empowering customers to participate in the economic value and the upside created by these AI companies. Now, the unfortunate thing has been a lot of them are still private, in some cases, staying private, valuations of hundreds of billions. Robinhood Ventures was built to solve this, and Robinhood Ventures' first fund, RVI, had its IPO in March. We have a great portfolio of late-stage frontier companies, and we just added OpenAI last week, which was awesome.

I think we really we really love what we're seeing there. And we're also uh you could tell last December, there was a step change in the agentic capabilities in these AI models. And of course, we're working to bring the frontier capabilities into your product and we've been spending a lot of time chiseling, what an agentic product could look like. Um, so stay tuned there and third. Um, and this is an interesting 1 uh AI is affecting the markets and uh, and and investors. So 1 of the things that we've been spending a lot of time on is empowering customers to participate in the economic value, and the upside created by these AI companies. Now, the unfortunate thing has been a lot of them are still private in some cases, staying private valuations of hundreds of billions but Robin Hood Ventures was built to solve this and Robin Hood Ventures first fund. RBI had its IPO in March, we have a great portfolio of late stage Frontier companies

and we just added open AI last week.

Vlad Tenev: We're also hearing from customers that they want access to emerging AI companies at an even earlier stage. We've already begun building the initial portfolio for our next fund, RVII, so the second RVI. We're excited to share more soon. I think part of this is just building the capability now that we've proven out that private markets democratization is a real thing, making it a bigger thing. The aspiration is that if you're a founder, retail should be part of the initial seed capital for your company. I think once we succeed in this, we could actually move the needle on entrepreneurship in this country and make it so that this is better for entrepreneurs. They can access retail and get even more capital.

Uh, which was awesome. Now we're also hearing from customers that they want access to emerging AI companies at an even earlier stage, and we've already begun building the initial portfolio for our next fund. RBI. So, the second, uh, RBI. Uh, we're excited to share more soon, but I think part of this is just building the capability now that we've proven out uh, that private markets

Vlad Tenev: Taking all this together, the relentless product velocity has driven another quarter of strong business results. Total net revenues grew 15% year-over-year to $1.1 billion. Net deposits were $18 billion, which is another quarter of 20%-plus annualized net deposit growth, and our third highest ever. Gold subscribers, 36% year-over-year growth to a record 4.3 million, and that's 16% attach rate relative to the total customer base and 40% of new customers in Q1. We're seeing customers adopting Gold very quickly, and that gets us very energized. Now, looking ahead, we've got some great new products to share. As I mentioned earlier, we've been working hard on extending agentic capabilities into Robinhood Cortex and your Robinhood experience. You should see some exciting products coming in late May, that's next month.

Democratization is a real thing, um, making it a bigger thing. And the, the aspiration is that if you're a Founder, retail should be part of the initial seed, capital for, for your company. And I think, once we succeed in this, we could actually move the needle on entrepreneurship in this country and make make it so that uh, this is better for entrepreneurs. They can access retail and get even more capital.

so,

Taking all this together.

The Relentless product velocity has driven another quarter of strong business results. Total net revenues, grew 15% year-over-year to 1.1 billion. Net deposits were 18 billion, which is another quarter of 20% plus annualized net deposit growth

Vlad Tenev: Plus, we've got a crypto event coming up as well. That's gonna be early July in the United Kingdom. We'll be holding, so that's two things coming up very shortly. We're also holding our annual HOOD Summit for active traders in the fall. You know, I've been reviewing what's on deck for that one, and I think you'll really like that. Why don't I turn it over to Shiv now to discuss our financials, and then we'll circle back for the Q&A.

Uh, and our third-highest ever Gold subscribers—36% year-over-year growth to a record 4.3 million—and that's a 16% attach rate relative to the total customer base and 40% of new customers in Q1. So we're seeing customers adopting Gold very quickly, and that gets us very energized. Now, looking ahead, we've got some great new products to share. So, as I mentioned earlier, we've been working hard on extending agentic capabilities into Robinhood Cortex and your Robinhood experience. So, you should see some exciting products coming in late May, so that's next month.

Plus, we've got a crypto event coming up as well. That's going to be early July in the United Kingdom. We'll be holding, uh, so that's two things coming up very shortly. We're also holding our annual Hood Summit for active traders in the fall. And you know, I've, uh, I've been reviewing what's, uh, what's on deck for that one. And, uh, I think, I think you'll really like that.

Shiv Verma: All right.

Vlad Tenev: Shiv?

Shiv Verma: Thank you, Vlad. Before we get started on financials, I wanted to share three big takeaways from the Q1. First, as Vlad mentioned, our product velocity continues to accelerate. We're investing for the long term, we're aggressively leveraging AI across the business, and this is leading products being shipped faster than ever. Second, we delivered another strong quarter of 20% annualized net deposit growth. As a reminder, this is our North Star KPI. It's great to see customers continue to trust us with their assets. Even with the macro backdrop, which was more challenging to start the year, customers remain engaged, they deposit on the platform, and they're rapidly adopting our new products, banking as example, as Vlad mentioned. All this put together, it led to 15% year-over-year revenue growth and 50% adjusted EBITDA margins.

So, uh, why don't I turn it over to Shiv now to discuss our financials, and then we'll circle back for the Q&A. All right, thank you, Vlad. Uh, before we get started on the financials, I wanted to share three big takeaways from the Q1. First, as Vlad mentioned, our product velocity continues to accelerate. So we're investing for the long term. We're aggressively leveraging AI across the business, and this is leading to products being shipped faster than ever.

Shiv Verma: Third, big takeaway is Q2 is off to a good start in April. Trading volumes for equities and options are on track to be our highest month of the year and actually our second-highest month in history. Net deposits, they're already approximately $5 billion month to date. That's great to see. Retirement assets just crossed $30 billion. Really great to see customers continuing to invest for the long term on Robinhood. Let's go to the Q1 results, and all of this is compared to a year ago. First, revenues grew 15% to $1.07 billion, and this was driven by growth across the entire business. Transaction volumes, they increased with growth in equities and options, and we had a record quarter for both prediction markets and futures.

Second, we delivered, another strong quarter of 20% annualized, net deposit growth as a reminder. This is our Northstar kpi, it's great to see customers continue to trust us with their assets. Even with the macro backdrop, which is more challenging to start the year customers remain engaged, they deposit on the platform and they're rapidly adopting our new products banking. As example is Vlad mentioned so all this put together, it lets the 15% year-over-year, Revenue growth and 50% adjusted even without margins.

And third, uh, big takeaway is Q2 is off to a good start in April. So trading volumes for equities and options are on track to be our highest month of the year, and actually our second highest month in history. Net deposits—they're already approximately $5 billion month to date. That's great to see, and retirement assets just crossed $30 billion. So really great to see customers continuing to invest for the long term on Robinhood.

Shiv Verma: If you look at interest-earning assets, they also continue to grow, and they more than offset the lower short-term interest rates. Really great to see net interest margin grow as well. Other revenues were up as Gold subscribers reached a new all-time high, 4.3 million subscribers. Really great to see the adoption there. We also continue to stay disciplined on our costs. We managed Q1 expenses to be significantly lower than our outlook. Adjusted OpEx and SBC was $607 million, and this included $14 million of costs related to Rothera and Trump Accounts that actually were not included in our outlook. I looked ahead to the rest of the year. We expect to invest an incremental $100 million into building Trump Accounts, with approximately half of these in Q2 as we prepare to launch.

So let's go to the q1 results, uh and all of this is compared to a year ago. So first revenues grew 15% to 1.07 billion and this was driven by growth across the entire business. So transaction volumes they increase with growth in equities and options and we had a record quarter for both prediction markets and futures.

Margin grow as well. And then other revenues were up as gold subscribers. Reached a new all-time high 4.3 million subscribers. So really great to see the adoption there.

And we also continue to stay disciplined in our costs so we manage q1 expenses to be significantly lower than our Outlook. So adjusted Opex and SBC was 607 million and this included 14 million of costs related to retire. And Trump accounts that actually were not included in our Outlook.

Shiv Verma: As Vlad said, we're super excited for this. These costs include building an exceptional user experience and actually a brand-new app, also ensuring we have best-in-class customer service, and then giving customers access to really great educational context. Importantly, I would also note that our work for Trump Accounts is contracted on a cost-plus basis with a small margin, we expect revenues to exceed costs for this project. Given this $100 million investment in building Trump Accounts, we are raising our full-year 2026 outlook for adjusted OpEx and SBC by equivalent $100 million, our updated range is $2.7 to $2.825 billion. Turning to capital allocation, we spent a lot of time here. We've also leaned in on share repurchases to start the year.

So when I looked ahead to the rest of the year, we expect to invest in incremental, 100 million dollars into building Trump accounts, with the approximately half of these in Q2, as we prefer at the launch. As Vlad said, we're super excited for this. So these costs include building an exceptional user experience, and actually a brand new app, also ensuring we have best-in-class customer service and then giving customers access to really great educational context.

Importantly, I would also note that our work for Trump accounts is contracted on a Cost Plus basis with a small margin so we expect revenues to succeed costs for this project.

So, given this hundred million dollar investment in building Trump accounts, we are raising our full year 2026 outlook for just about X and SBC by the equivalent of $100 million. And so our updated range is $2.7 to $2.825 billion.

Shiv Verma: So far this year, we've already repurchased over $300 million or $4 million of our shares, which keeps share count on track to be approximately flat this quarter. As we've said before, the denominator matters. Additionally, in March, our board refreshed our share repurchase authorization to $1.5 billion. This reflects the great confidence and opportunities we have ahead. Looking ahead, just wanna share a few top of minds that we're also thinking about. First, we're gonna continue investing for the long term while maintaining our disciplined approach to cost. Customers are responding incredibly well to our new products, and our product velocity, as we've said, is faster than ever. We believe this combination can deliver outsized growth for years to come.

So, trying to cap allocation, we spent a lot of time here. We've also leaned in on share repurchases to start the year. So, so far this year, we've already repurchased over $300 million, or 4 million of our shares, which keeps share count on track to be approximately flat, flat this quarter. And as we've said before, the denominator matters.

Additionally, in March, our board refreshed, our share repurchase authorization to 1.5 billion. So this reflects the great confidence and opportunities we have ahead.

So, looking at just—want to share a few top of minds that we're also thinking about.

First, we're going to continue investing for the long term while maintaining our disciplined approach to cost.

Shiv Verma: At the same time, we wanna remain disciplined in the way we invest capital, we're continuing to underwrite each investment to strong long-term ROIs. Second, we are also increasing our focus on top-of-funnel customer growth. This is something new again. While we continue to add customers organically, we think there is an opportunity to improve our customer growth rate, both in the US and internationally. We're starting to allocate more of our investments and capital to adding new customers again, while still maintaining our focus on the strong annualized net deposit growth. This is all in addition to supporting Trump Accounts, which also puts the Robinhood technology in front of the next generation of investors. Third, we're leaning into investments in AI, both on the customer-facing products and internally.

So, customers responding incredibly well, to our new products and our product velocity. As we said is faster than ever, we believe this combination can deliver outside growth for years to come.

But at the same time, we want to remain disciplined in the way we invest capital. And so we continue to underwrite each investment to strong long-term rois

Second, we are also increasing our focus on top of funnel customer growth. So this is something new again.

What we continue to add customers organically, we think there is an opportunity to improve our customer growth rate, both in the US and internationally.

So we're starting to allocate more of our investments in capital to adding new customers again, while still maintaining our focus on the Strong annualized, net deposit growth.

And this is all in addition to supporting Trump accounts, which also puts the Robinhood technology in front of the next generation of investors.

Shiv Verma: Vlad spoke to a lot of the customer efforts, but we also believe making AI native to our workflows is just as fundamental to winning. Last quarter, if you remember, we shared the 9-figure efficiency benefits we've already generated in engineering and customer support. We are now giving every team the tools and mandate to adopt AI into their daily workflows to drive productivity while also making the experience of working at Robinhood even better. Today, over 90% of our employees are already using AI tooling in their workflows. It's great to see. These adoption numbers, they continue to increase weekly. Another example of a data point we watch is commits per engineer. This measures how much code our engineers are successfully deploying into production.

And third, we're leaning into investments in AI both on the customer facing products and internally. So, Vlad spoke to a lot of the customer efforts. But we also believe making AI native to our workflows is just as fundamental to winning.

So last quarter, if you remember, we shared the 9 figure efficiency benefits, we've already generated an engineering and customer support.

But we are now giving every team, the tools and mandate to adopt AI into their daily workflows to drive productivity will also make the experience of working at Robin Hood even better.

Today, over 90% of our employees are already using AI Tooling in their workflows, that's great to see and these adoption numbers. They continue to increase weekly

Another example of a data point we watch is commits per engineer.

Shiv Verma: It hit a new high in Q1, and it's up 50% since the start of last year, as our engineers are leveraging these AI tools to build even faster for customers. We believe AI has the power to transform financial services for both customers and employees, and as a technology company, we plan to lead that charge. Putting it all together, we believe the opportunities for 2026 and beyond remain massive. Our teams are hard at work. They're shipping great products for customers, but we're also staying lean and disciplined to generate operating leverage for shareholders. As I said last quarter, our financial North Star remains the same: maximize earnings per share and free cash flow per share for shareholders over time. With that, Chris, why don't we go to Q&A?

This measures how much code or Engineers are deploying into production? It hit a new high in q1, it's up 50% since the start of last year as our Engineers are leveraging. These AI tools to build even faster for customers

So we believe AI has the power to transform financial services for both customers and employees and it's a technology company. We plan to lead that charge.

So, putting it all together, we believe the opportunities for 2026 and Beyond remain massive. Our teams are hard at work. The shipping great products for customers, but we're also seeing lean and discipline to generate operating leverage for shareholders.

And as I said, last quarter, our financial North Star remains the same.

Maximize earnings per share and free cash flow per share for shareholders over time.

Chris Koegel: All right. Thank you, Shiv. For the Q&A session, we'll start by answering shareholder questions from Say Technologies, and after the Say questions, we'll turn to live questions from our audience. Then we'll go to dial-in participants. The first question from SAY comes from Sebastian G, who's joining us live via Zoom.

So with that Chris, why don't we go to Q&A?

All right, thank you, Shiv, for the Q&A session. We'll start by answering shareholder questions from Say Technologies. After the Say questions, we'll turn to live questions from our audience, and then we'll go to dial-in participants.

Vlad Tenev: Sebastian.

Sebastian G: Hey, good afternoon. Good afternoon, everyone.

So the first question from say comes from s Sebastian G who's joining us live via Zoom,

Vlad Tenev: Hello.

Sebastian G: Thank you, Vlad and Shiv, and thank you to the Robinhood team for the opportunity. Thank you for everything you guys do. My question is around the dividend tracker that you had previously announced. Can you give me an update on the current status of that?

Vlad Tenev: We love our dividend investors at Robinhood. We call them dividend hounds. You're a dividend hound, Sebastian?

Thank you to the Robinhood team for the opportunity. Thank you for everything you guys do. Uh, my question is around the dividend tracker that you had previously announced. Can you give me an update on the current status of that?

Sebastian G: I am. I sure am.

Vlad Tenev: Yeah. The short answer to your question is it's in the works, and we're going to be launching it this year, so on track for that. The reason it hasn't been launched already is that as we sat down with our team to think about what we could be doing even more for our dividend hounds, one thing came up. A lot of them had this complaint that, you know, some of the other brokerages pay out their dividends in the morning, but we do it in the evening, so why can't we pay out the dividends a little bit earlier, match everyone else? We looked into this, and what we discovered was that actually the dividend record date is up to 2 to 3 weeks before the dividends are paid out typically.

Vlad Tenev: We saw an opportunity, not just to match what everyone else is doing, but to beat it and to give your dividends an average of 17 days or 2 to 3 weeks earlier. This is like real real value. One of the other reasons why hopefully it'll be irrational to use another brokerage for your dividend investing than Robinhood. We got excited about this. We're shipping that. That's live, should be this month. Now our team is turning their attention to making what, at this point, given all the questions, needs to be the world's best dividend tracker. Stay tuned for that, and enjoy the early dividends in the meantime.

We love our dividend investors at Robin Hood. You're you're we call them dividend, hounds. You're a dividend Hound Sebastian. I I am I sure am. Yeah. So short. Uh, the short answer to your question is it's in the works and we're going to be launching it this year. So on track for that. Um the reason it hasn't been launched already is that as we sat down with our team, to think about what we could be doing, even more for, uh, our dividend hounds, 1 Thing came up. So a lot of them had this complaint that, you know, some of the other brokerages pay out their dividends in the morning, but we do it in the evening. So why can't we pay out the dividends a little bit earlier match everyone else. So we looked into this and what we discovered was that actually the dividend record date is up to 2 to 3 weeks before, uh the Dividends are paid out typically. And so we we saw an opportunity uh not just to match what everyone else is doing but to beat it and to give your dividends an average of

17 days or 2 to 3 weeks earlier. And this is like,

Sebastian G: Looking forward to it. Thank you.

Real, uh, real value. So 1, 1 of the other reasons, why? Hopefully it'll be uh irrational to use another brokerage for your dividend investing than Robin Hood. So we got excited about this, we're shipping that that's live. Uh should be this month and uh and now our team is turning their attention to making, uh, What, uh, at this point. Given all the questions needs to be the world's best dividend tracker. So stay tuned for that and enjoy the early dividends in the meantime.

Chris Koegel: Awesome. All right. The next Say question is from Matt S.

Looking forward to it. Thank you.

Awesome. All right, the next, say, question is from Matt S.

Matt S: Vlad, what's up?

Vlad Tenev: Hello.

Vlad, what's up?

Matt S: Hey, what's going on?

Vlad Tenev: How you doing?

Matt S: How are you?

Hello.

Vlad Tenev: Oh, there he is.

Matt S: Excited to be here. Really appreciate it. My top voted question was, will Robinhood have IPO Access to any of the upcoming mega offerings?

Hey, what's going on? How are you doing? I'm excited to be here. I really appreciate it.

Vlad Tenev: Okay. Yeah, that's a great question. I have to preface it by saying I can't really be specific with you about what IPOs may or may not be on the platform listed before you actually see it. That being said, in the past couple of years, we've seen a distinct shift where pretty much every major IPO of consequence has been on Robinhood's platform. In most of these cases, I mean, the founders, the CEOs are engaging with us directly, asking for help with their retail strategy. You know, there's a big change from when we launched IPO Access, which was back in 2021. We really had to like claw and scratch and, you know, ask for favors to get retail these allocations and, you know, everyone was telling them, You don't want retail in your IPOs.

Okay. So, uh, my top voted question was, uh, well, Robin Hood have IPO access to any of the upcoming Mega offerings. Okay, yeah, that's a great question. So, I have to preface it by saying I can't really be specific with you about what IPOs uh may or may not be on the platform listed before you, you actually see it. Um, that being said, in the past couple of years, we've seen a distinct shift where pretty much, every major IPO of consequence has been on Robin Hood's platform and in most of these cases,

Vlad Tenev: Certainly don't want more than 10% retail allocation. We're starting to get the CEOs talking about how they're actually driving larger and larger historic sized allocations, 20%, 30%. We're starting to get questions about how big is too big. Why isn't anyone doing larger? I think that's awesome. I think we've helped really change the game, retail has a real seat at the table in IPOs. With Robinhood Ventures, we're driving that even earlier. I think that's a durable trend. I think it's gonna continue, you should expect that that'll happen in the future, we're gonna continue to work tirelessly to get the highest quality IPOs and private companies to treat retail as a first-class constituency.

Is I mean the the founders the CEOs are engaging with us directly asking for help with their retail strategy. And you know there's a big change from when we launched IPO access which was back in 2021. We really had to like claw and scratch and you know ask for favors to get retail these allocations and you know everyone was telling them, you don't want retail in your IPOs. Certainly don't want more than 10% retail allocation and now we're starting to get the CEOs talking about how they're actually driving larger and larger historic sized. Allocations 20%, 30%. We're starting to get questions about how big is too big? Why isn't anyone doing larger? Um, and I think that's awesome. I think we've helped really change the game and now retail has a real seat at the table and IPOs and with Robin Hood Ventures. We're we're driving that even earlier. So I think that's a durable Trend. I think it's going to continue and so you should expect that that will happen.

in uh in the future and we're going to continue to work tirelessly to get the, the highest quality, IPOs and private companies, uh, to to treat retail as a first class constituency

Chris Koegel: All right. Thank you, Vlad. That concludes our shareholder questions from Say Technologies. Now we'll move to Q&A from folks here live in Menlo Park. The first question goes to Alex Markgraff.

All right. Thank you. Vlad that concludes our shareholder questions from say Technologies. Now, we'll move to Q&A from folks here, live in memo Park.

Um, so the first question goes to Alex Margraf.

Alex Markgraff: Thanks. Hey, guys.

Vlad Tenev: Hey, Alex.

Alex Markgraff: Alex Markgraff from KeyBanc Capital Markets. Maybe a couple questions, Vlad, just one on Shiv's comment on customer growth. I mean, the Trump Accounts effort's obviously one source, but as you think about other sources of customer growth when you're putting some more capital behind it, where does your mind go?

Vlad Tenev: Yeah, I mean, I think that there's a lot that we could be doing both on the product side, just making onboarding simpler, getting customers to see the value easier, right? I think a lot of those surfaces, since we've, in the past few years, turned our attention more to deepening relationships with customers, getting higher value customers to get more value, we've been spending a little bit less attention and focus on how to make the top of funnel simpler and easier to get through. In particular, now we have lots of products, right? There's lots of things to market, lots of things we can put in front of customers. We really have executed on this vision of building a comprehensive financial services platform.

Thanks. Hey guys uh Alex from Minecraft from KeyBank. Um maybe a couple questions lad just 1 on on ship's, comment on customer growth. I mean the Trump account efforts obviously 1 Source but as you think about other sources of customer growth when you're you're putting some some more Capital behind it. Where does your mind go?

Vlad Tenev: The challenge now is how do we kind of like organize these things for customers and make them so that we deliver the things that you're looking for as quickly as possible and not to kind of like clutter the interface and experience. I think we're also seeing really good impact from our marketing activities. Marketing continues to be very high ROI for us, and that just gives us more and more levers.

Alex Markgraff: Right. Shiv, on OpEx, last quarter we talked about the profitable growth framework.

Value. Um, we've been spending a little bit less, uh, attention and focus on how to make the top of funnel simpler and easier to get through. And in particular now, we have lots of products, right? So, there's lots of things to Market, lots of things we can put, uh, in front of customers. We really have executed on this vision of building, a comprehensive Financial Services platform. So, uh, the challenge now, is, how how do we kind of like organize these things for customers and make them? So that we deliver the things that you're looking for as quickly as possible and not, not to kind of like clutter the interface and experience. Um, and I think we're also seeing really good impact. Uh, from from our marketing activities, marketing continues to be uh, very high Roi for us and that just gives us more and more levers.

Chris Koegel: Mm-hmm.

Alex Markgraff: As you think about the flexibility that showed up in Q1 around the $607 million. When you look at the rest of the year, maybe help us think about where the flexibility exists to, on the lower side, if need be, to ensure that profitable growth framework.

Shiv Verma: Yeah, great question. Our North Star is still the same. We wanna drive free cash flow per share and earnings per share over the long term, so that means we need to be making investments. We wanna keep doing that, customers responding incredibly well. At the same time, we wanna be disciplined, and so we're constantly re-underwriting everything we're doing, making sure it still makes sense and where we wanna put our capital. 85% to 90% of our costs are fixed, but a large portion are discretionary. As a software platform, we're constantly looking at what's the right allocation of resources internally. We also have marketing spend, as Vlad mentioned. We also have some variable costs, even though it's predominantly fixed. I feel really good about our outlook. We're still building for the long term.

Right. Maybe uh shiv on Opex last quarter, we talked about the profitable growth framework as you think about the flexibility that showed up in the the first quarter around the 6077 million. When you look at the rest of the year, maybe help us think about where the flexibility exists to on the lower side. If if need be to ensure that profitable growth framework. Yeah great question. Um so our Northstar is still the same. We want to drive free cash flow per share and earnings per share over the long term so that means we need to be making Investments. So we want to keep doing that customers responding incredibly well at the same time we want to be disciplined and so we're constantly re-underwriting everything. We're doing making sure it still makes sense and where we want to put our capital.

Shiv Verma: We came in better this quarter, and we're continuing to monitor it. I want us to be investing for the long term, and then if we need to, we also have some levers we can pull.

Chris Koegel: All right. Thank you, Alex. Now, Alex just had his second child, so we let him have two questions. For the next, for the remainder of the question askers, please limit yourself to one question. All right, the next question is from Dan Fannon.

Uh, 85 to 90% of our costs are fixed, but a large portion of our discretionary. So as a software platform, we're constantly looking at what's the right allocation of resources internally. We also have marketing spend, as Vlad mentioned, we also have some variable costs, even though it's predominantly fixed. So I feel really good about our Outlook. We're still building for the long term. We came in better this quarter and we're going to continue to monitor it but I want us to be investing for the long term and then if we need to, we also have some levers. We can pull

All right. Thank you, Alex, Alex. Just had a second child. So we let him have 2 questions. But for the next, uh, for the remainder of the, uh, question asked her is please limit yourself to 1 question. All right, so the next question is from Dan fennon.

Dan Fannon: Thanks. Dan Fannon from Jefferies. Wanted to just talk more broadly about the health of your customer base, given, and the resiliency, given all the market volatility we've seen to start the year. You gave some comments about April, only mentioned a few asset classes. Maybe expand a bit upon outside of just options and equities, maybe crypto, prediction markets, securities lending, any of the other kind of areas where you're seeing any change in behavior as you go into Q2 versus what we saw in Q1.

Shiv Verma: Yeah. Happy to start.

Thanks, uh, Dan Fannon from Jeffrey's. So wanted to just talk more broadly about the health of your customer base, given in the resiliency given all the market volatility, we've seen to start the year, and then you gave some comments about April, only mentioned a few asset classes, so maybe expand a bit upon outside of just options and and equities, maybe crypto prediction, markets Tech lending, any of the other kind of areas where you're seeing any change in Behavior as you go into 2, Q versus what we saw in the first quarter.

Vlad Tenev: Go for it.

Shiv Verma: Our North Star KPI is just net deposits. Like, that is our customers' healthy or they're trusting us. $18 billion in Q1, despite, was a really tough macro backdrop. If you recall, to start the year, there was a government shutdown, a software sell-off, and then a global conflict. Despite all of that, our customers remained resilient. I think the big difference from a couple of years ago is, one, we're a lot more diversified, so there's a lot of different products that customers are using. We mentioned banking, for example, Robinhood credit card. We also have Robinhood Strategies. That's our robo-like product that has over a billion and a half. Regardless of the macro backdrop, customers are using that. The second thing is we have more active trader tools. We now have index options, which allows you to go long or short.

Yeah, um, I'm happy to start. Uh, go for it. So our Northstar KPI is just net deposits. Like, that is our customers—are they healthy, are they trusting us? $18 billion in Q1. Despite what was a really tough macro backdrop. If you recall, to start the year, there was a government shutdown, a software sell-off, and then a global conflict. Despite all of that, our customers remained resilient. I think the big difference,

Shiv Verma: We also have shorting, which is growing nicely. For more active traders, they're continuing to remain engaged. On your question on April specifically, really healthy volumes across equities and options, as I mentioned. Prediction markets, it's on track to be around $3 billion and probably our second-highest month ever, so really strong engagement there. Everything we're seeing is the customer is healthy, they're engaged. A little bit more activity from the active trader constituency, but the thesis was if you build great products, if you diversify, if you give active traders the tools, they'll be there throughout the cycle, and that's what we've seen thus far.

Chris Koegel: Great. Thank you, Shiv. Any other quest-- Jeff John Roberts.

From a couple years ago, is 1, we're a lot more Diversified. So there's a lot of different products that customers are using. We mentioned banking, for example, Robin Hood credit card. We also have Robinhood strategies. That's our rool like product that has over a billion and a half. And so, regardless of the macro backdrop, uh, customers are using that. The second thing is we have more active Trader tools. So we now have index options which allows you to go longer or short. We also have shorting which is growing nicely. So for a more active Traders. They're continuing to remain engaged on your question on April specifically, uh, really help the volumes across equities and options. As I mentioned, uh, prediction markets. Uh, it's on track to be around 3 billion and probably our second highest month ever. So really strong engagement there. Uh, so everything we're seeing is the customer is healthy. They're engaged a little bit more activity from the active Trader constituency, but the thesis was, if you build great products, if you diversify, if you give active Traders the tools, they'll be there throughout the cycle and that's what we've seen thus far.

Great. Thank you, Chef. Any other questions? Uh, Jeff, John Roberts.

Shiv Verma: Hey, Jeff.

Jeff John Roberts: Hey, Vlad. Nice setting. My question's on prediction markets. How does Robinhood see this industry evolving? Do you see in 2 years it being like a Uber-Lyft type duopoly, or is there gonna be like five or 10 or 15 players?

Vlad Tenev: Yeah. I mean, remember, prediction markets happens at various layers, right? Right now, we're kind of, think of us as a brokerage, and then there's a variety of exchanges. You know, they're sort of the main ones that are in the news, and also a lot of the other players are growing their own exchanges, building their own, going through the CFTC registration process. There's probably been over a dozen, probably more than that. I think we should expect to see some consolidation because frankly, if you look at all these dozens of new exchanges that are popping up, there's not a lot of differentiation. I think differentiation really comes down to who has an established, engaged customer base and who has a unique advantage with economics.

Hey Jeff. Hey Vlad nice setting. Um my questions on prediction markets, how does Robin Hood? See this industry evolving do you see in 2 years? It being like a uber Lyft type duopoly? Or is there going to be like 5 or 10 or 15 players?

Yeah, I mean uh remember prediction markets happens at various layers, right? So right now we're kind of uh, think of us as a brokerage and then there's a variety of, uh, of exchanges and, you know, there's the there there's sort of the main ones that are in the news and also a lot of the other players are growing their own exchanges, building their own going through. The cftc, registration process. There's probably been over a dozen um

should expect to see some consolidation because, frankly, if you look at

Vlad Tenev: One of the things I think we're unique with is we've got 27 million funded accounts in the US. Through our partnership with SIG to launch Rothera, which is, you know, one of the leading market makers in the asset class, we believe that we not only have an advantage with retail, but also institutional as well. I think the asset class is gonna continue to grow. We're very, very early. We're starting to see the beginnings of diversification outside of sports. That's been increasing. I do think, you know, and it's hard to predict the exact timing, I don't believe there will be dozens of DCMs in the future.

All these dozens of new exchanges that are popping up. There's not a lot of differentiation and I think differentiation really comes down to, um, who has an established engaged customer base and who has a unique Advantage with economics and 1 of the things, I think we're unique with is, we've got 27 million funded accounts in the US. Um, and through our partnership with uh, Sig to launch rothera, um, which is, you know, 1 of the 1 of the leading market makers, in the asset class, we believe that, uh, we not only have an advantage with retail, but also institutional as well. So, um, I I think the the asset class can continue to grow. We're very, very early. We're starting to see the beginnings of uh, diversification outside of sports, so that's been increasing. Um, I do think, you know, and it's hard to predict the exact timing. Um, I I don't believe there will be dozens

Vlad Tenev: I think there will be some consolidation. I think we should see that shaking out in the next couple of years.

Of dcms in the future. I think there will be some consolidation and I think we should see that shaking out in the in the next couple of years.

Chris Koegel: All right. Thank you, Vlad. Are there any other people here who would like, in person, to ask a question?

Shiv Verma: Don't be shy.

All right. Thank you, Vlad. Are there any other people here? Who would like in person to ask a question?

Don't be shy.

Chris Koegel: No? Okay. Well, let's go to the Zoom queue. All right, for those who are joining us on Zoom, please raise your hand to let us know that you'd like to ask a question. I'm seeing the first question is coming from Devin Ryan at Citizens.

No. Okay. Well then, let's go to the zoom queue. All right, so for those who are joining us on Zoom, please raise your hand, uh, to let us know that you'd like to ask a question. Um, so I seeing the first question is coming from Devin Ryan at citizens.

Devin Ryan: Hey, Vlad. Hey, Shiv. How are you?

Shiv Verma: Hey, Devin. Doing well, thanks.

Devin Ryan: Good to see you. Question, wanna dig in on the recent announcement on the pattern day trader elimination and just get your thoughts on, you know, what does that mean for Robinhood, for your customers, for kind of modernization and democratization kind of near term? You know, bigger picture, how do you see this playing into themes like agentic trading and maybe the ability for customers to trade a lot more than maybe they otherwise would have been able to do? Just want some thoughts on kind of both near term and longer term, what this means for you.

Hey Vlad. Hey shift. How are you? Hey, Devin doing well, thanks.

Good to see you. Um, question—uh, want to dig in on the recent announcement on the pattern day trader elimination.

Vlad Tenev: Yeah. I think it's fantastic. I mean, this rule, for those of you that aren't familiar, probably most are, but pattern day trading rules prevent day trading effectively for customers that have under $25,000 in their account. When I say vestigial and kind of outdated, it's this old notion that the amount of money you have in your account or your account balance dictates how sophisticated or knowledgeable you are, right? We've seen that maybe in the past when we had lack of good information, this was kind of a reasonable proxy, but now we have tons of information, it makes less sense.

And just get your thoughts on, you know, what does that mean for Robinhood, for your customers, for kind of modernization and democratization, kind of near-term. And then, you know, bigger picture, how do you see this playing into, I don't know, themes like agentic trading and maybe the ability for customers to trade a lot more than maybe they otherwise would have been able to do? So there's lots of thoughts on kind of both near-term and longer term, what this means for you.

Vlad Tenev: Moreover, the way this rule works is if you know, fall backwards and trip over and become flagged a pattern day trader, effectively, if you wanna trade, you would have to churn out of your Robinhood account and go to another brokerage. It wasn't even, you know, this follows you around as a customer. It's just on a per brokerage basis, and since we were getting the lion's share of new customers, we felt like this disproportionately affected us. Excited to see it go. This, along with the accreditation rules, are kind of like vestigial rules that tie sophistication with account balance, which we think is wrong. We're excited that there's progress there. Obviously, as you can tell, we're ready to go.

Yeah. Uh, I think it's fantastic. I mean, this, this rule. So, for those of you that aren't familiar—probably most are—but pattern day trading rules prevent, uh, day trading, effectively, for customers that have under $25,000 in their account. So, uh, when I say vestigial and kind of outdated, it's this, this old notion that, uh, the amount of money you have in your account, or your account balance, dictates how sophisticated or knowledgeable you are, right? And we've seen that maybe in the past, when we had, uh, lack of good information, this was kind of a reasonable proxy. But now we have tons of information, so it makes less sense. Um,

Moreover, um, the way this rule works is if, if you, you know,

Fall backwards and trip over and become flagged the pattern day trader. Effectively, if you want to trade, you would have to churn out of your Robin Hood account and go to a another brokerage. Um, so it wasn't even, you know, this this follows you around as a customer, it's just on a per brokerage basis. And since we were getting the Lion Share of new customers, we felt like this disproportionately affected us, so excited to see it. Go this along with the accreditation rules. Um, our uh, our kind of like vestigial rules that that ties sophistication with account balance. Um,

Vlad Tenev: The team is excited to go live with the new logic, and I think it's a great step by FINRA to push this through.

Which, which we we think is wrong. Um, and we're, we're excited that there's progress there and obviously, as you can tell, um, we're ready to go. The team is excited to uh, uh, to to go live with the new logic. And I think it's a great Step by by finra, to push this through.

Chris Koegel: All right. Thank you, Vlad. The next question is from Dan Dolev from Mizuho.

All right. Thank you, Vlad. Uh, the next question is from Dan Dov from Meizuo.

Dan Dolev: Hey, guys. Hey, Vlad. Hey, Shiv. Looks like you're in a much better place than I am.

Vlad Tenev: Is that why you're not on video?

Hey guys. Uh Hey Vlad. Hey s***. Looks like you're in a much better place than I am.

Is that why you're not a video?

Dan Dolev: I'm in New York. Great stuff here. Everything sounds, you know, really amazing and promising. I was very impressed by the agentic trading commentary. Maybe can you educate us a little bit what you guys are doing? 'Cause if anyone's at the forefront of agentic trading, it is probably gonna be Robinhood, I'm really curious to know, you know, what you guys are doing there.

Vlad Tenev: Yeah, yeah.

Dan Dolev: I'm sure a lot of people would like to hear that as well.

Vlad Tenev: You caught that in my prepared remarks, right? My preference really isn't to reveal too much about products before we ship them, but we've got a lot planned this year. I mean, there's three events that I just announced, so we're gonna be launching some stuff in May, then we've got the crypto event in early July, and then we have HOOD Summit, that's gonna be our active trader event, third annual, in the fall. And I just reviewed kind of the docket for that. You can imagine AI agents and putting the best financial intelligence in our customers' hands is gonna be a starting player in the starting five of most, if not all, of those events.

You caught that in my, uh, prepared remarks, right? Um, my preference really isn't to reveal too much, um, about products before we ship them. But, um, we've got a lot planned this year. I mean, there's three events that I just announced. So we're, we're going to be launching some stuff in May. Then we've got the crypto event, um, in early July, and then we have Hood Summit. Um, that's going to be our active trader event, third annual, in the fall. Um, and I just reviewed kind of the docket for that. You can imagine AI agents and putting, um, the best financial intelligence in our customers' hands is going to be, uh, a starting player in the starting five of, uh, of...

Vlad Tenev: I should say, you know, there's been a lot of noise about this by the industry. I don't think anyone's kind of figured anything out yet, so we're still early, and you should expect us to be not just early, but kind of at the forefront there.

Chris Koegel: Great. Thank you, Vlad. The next question is from Steven Chubak from Wolfe.

Most, if not all of those events. So um, and and I should say, you know, there's been a lot of noise about this. Um, by the industry, I don't think anyone's kind of figured anything out yet. So we're still early and you should expect us to be, not just early, but kind of at the Forefront there,

Great, thank you Vlad. The next question is from, Stephen chubechada.

Steven Chubak: Hi, good afternoon. Thanks for taking my questions. Sorry, I said questions. Chris, to be clear, one question only.

Hi, good afternoon and thanks for taking my questions.

Chris Koegel: Thank you, Steven.

Steven Chubak: This relates to just securities lending in particular, and that has remained under considerable pressure, not just for you, but for industry peers as well. At the same time, the outlook here is pretty constructive given both this large slate of IPOs that are coming, as well as just above normal retail allocations for those IPOs as well. Given that you've had more of your clients opt in to fully paid securities lending, we're assuming you can contextualize just how meaningful of a windfall this could become. I'm gonna break my own rule, if you could speak to take rate dynamics for Q2, that would be helpful as well.

Vlad Tenev: Shiv?

Shiv Verma: Yes. I'm happy to take this one. Great question. First on securities lending. As a reminder, this will show up in three different places in the financials. First is securities lending net. It'll also show up in segregated cash because when customers have securities lending, we get GC collateral back, and we reinvestment. It will also show up in margin interest as customers borrow on margin. When you look at the financials, what you saw is customers continued to opt in and use the program in fully paid. The margin book continued to grow. What you did see is securities lending net, which is primarily based on the rebates rate, was lower. As you mentioned, Steve, that's mainly because lower volatility, lower IPOs in the market, specials rebates was lower, that's what brought that down.

I'm sorry. I said questions, Chris to be clear, 1 question, only, thank you, Stephen and this so This relates to just uh second lending in particular and that has remained under considerable pressure, not just for you, but for industry peers as well at the same time, the outlook here is pretty constructive given both this large slate of IPOs that are coming, um, as well as just above normal, retail locations for those IPOs as well. So given that you've had more of your clients opt in to fully paid. Tech lending was something you can contextualize just how meaningful of a windfall this could become and I'm going to break my own rule. If you could speak to take rate Dynamics, for 2q, that would be helpful as well. Shiv. Yes, I'm I'm happy to take this 1. Great question. So, first on Securities lending as a reminder, this will show up in 3. Different places in the financials. First is second lending, net. It'll also show up in segregated cash because when customers have security,

Securities lending, we get GC collateral back and we reinvest it. We'll also show up in margin interest as customers borrow on margin. So, when you look at the financials, what you saw is, uh, customers continue to opt in and use the program and fully paid, the margin book continued to grow. What you did see is securities lending net, which is primarily based on the rebate rates, was lower, as you mentioned, Steve. That's mainly because, uh, lower volatility, lower IPOs in the market.

Shiv Verma: How do we judge the business internally and its health? There's just two main things I look at. One, are customers opting into fully paid program, and two, how much assets are opted in. Right now it's about 25% of customers have opted into fully paid and about 50% of assets. Really healthy adoption, but we also have a long way to go. It's hard to predict what's gonna happen on the specials rebates rate later in the year, but right now it's at a low, and if the market comes back or if you see IPOs come back, you could see a rebound there. To your second question, we'll answer it even though Chris said limit it to one. Take rates. As a reminder, this is an output metric.

Market, so specials rebates was lower. So that's what brought that down. How do we judge the business internally and its health? There's just two main things I look at.

Shiv Verma: We go on market share and we're winning, and everything that we see is that the case. What happens to take rates is when active traders trade more, take rates naturally go down because we have tiered pricing. This is a good thing. It means they're engaged, they're using our products, and relative to a few years ago, we're actually seeing a much healthier adoption of active traders during some of these macro events. What are we seeing to start the quarter? On crypto, it's about 7 basis points lower, and on options, it's about $0.03. However, we're starting to see that rebound in the pickup of April. Again, it's an output metric. We focus on active traders and market share, and everything we're seeing is super healthy.

1, our customers opting into fully paid program and 2 how much assets are opted in. So right now it's about 25% of customers have opted into fully paid and about 50% of assets. So really healthy adoption. But we also have a long way to go. It's hard to predict what's going to happen on the the specials rebates rate later in the year. But right now it's at a low and if the market comes back or if you see IPOs come back, you could see it rebound there. Um, to your second question. Uh, we'll answer it even though Chris said, limited to 1, uh, so take rates as a reminder, this is an output metric. We go on market, share and are winning and everything that we see is that the case. What happens to take rates is when active Traders trade more, take rates, naturally go down because we have tiered pricing. This is a good thing. It means they're engaged. They're using our products and relative to a few years ago. We're actually seeing a much healthier adoption of of active Traders during some of these macro events. So what are we seeing to start the quarter, uh, on crypto? It's about 7 basis points, lower and on options. There's about 3 cents.

Chris Koegel: Thank you, Shiv, for the double header. All right, the next question is from Ben Budish at Barclays.

However, we're starting to see that rebound in the pickup of April. So again, it's an output metric. We focus on active traders and market share, and everything we're seeing is super healthy.

Thank you, Chef for the double header. All right, the next question is from Ben Buddhist at Barkley's.

Ben Budish: Hey, good evening, everyone. Thanks for taking the question. Maybe just tying this into Steven's question on securities lending. Shiv, I am wondering if you could talk a little bit more about your margin funding. I think it has been a little bit of a source of confusion for investors. You have been moving bank sweep cash over to brokerage cash. I think you have been talking about using some of the securities lending related cash. Maybe just any, like, modeling, you know, help you can give us there. How should we think about, you know, your future plans given your margin balances are growing more rapidly, would all be helpful. Thank you.

Shiv Verma: Yeah, happy to take it. Great question. On the margin book funding, what you'll notice in Q1 is we moved over 6 billion of cash that was off balance sheet, that was in the sweep program, onto free credit balances onto balance sheet to help fund the margin book. No impact to customers. They get the exact same rate, 3.35%, one of the best in the industry. This was more of a back-end accounting change. It also helps, as you mentioned, on the funding of the margin book. This is very common in different brokerages before, just with the health of what we're seeing, we decided that was the right time. What would I expect from modeling going forward? They'll stay roughly at this rate. About 25% of our free credit balances today is in this.

Hey, good evening everyone. Uh, thanks for taking the question. Um, maybe just tying this into Steve's question on SEC lending should, I was wondering if you could talk a little bit more about your margin funding. Um, I think it's been a, a little bit of a source of confusion for investors. You've been moving Bank. Sweet cash or The Brokerage cash. I think you've been talking about using some of the SEC lending related cash. Um, so maybe just any like modeling, you know, help you can give us their how should we think about? You know, your future plans, gave them your margin balances are going. Uh more rapidly uh would all be helpful. Thank you.

Shiv Verma: Twenty-four billion in sweeps and then about $6 billion from free credit balances. It might move a little bit around quarter to quarter, but I think that's the way you should look at it. Most of our free credit balances will continue to be earning the same rate that we do, but this $6 billion will have a smaller take rate, more akin to our sweeps take rate now that it's moved over on balance sheet.

Was more of a back-end accounting change. It also helps as you mentioned on the funding of the margin book, this is very common in different brokerages before. So, just with the health of what we're seeing, we decided that was the right time. Uh, what would I expect from modeling going forward? They'll stay roughly at this rate about 25% of our of our free credit balances today.

Uh, is in this so 24 billion in sweeps and then about 6 billion from free credit balances. It might move a little bit around quarter to quarter but I think that's the way you should look at it. And then most of our free credit balances, will continue to be earning the same rate that we do. But this 6 billion will have a smaller take rate, more akin to our sweeps take great. Now that it's uh, it's moved over on balance sheet.

Chris Koegel: All right. Thank you, Shiv. The next question is from Craig Siegenthaler from Bank of America.

Craig Siegenthaler: Hey, Vlad, Shiv. I don't know if you can see me, but I obviously can see you, and good to see you both.

All right, thank you. Shiv the next question is from Craig Sean dollar from Bank of America.

Vlad Tenev: We can see you, and you look great.

Hi. I don't know if you can see me, but I obviously can see you, and good to see you both. We can see you. You can see you look great.

Craig Siegenthaler: Great. I have a follow-up on AI, but not Cortex and not agentic AI. Taking this one step further, where are you in the process of rolling out AI-powered financial advisors? I believe you're working on it. I think you've said before you're in talks with regulators, but can you kind of share a timeline with us?

Great. So I have a follow-up on AI but not core texts and not a gen to AI, but taking this 1 Step,

Vlad Tenev: Yeah, for sure. I think when people talk about AI-powered financial advisors, they can mean one of two different things. One is just specifically advice on what to invest in, right? That can be a spectrum of things as well, like trading recommendations and allowing you to build trading strategies with that Reg BI compliant capability. It could also mean, like, robo-advisor services. For the latter, we have Robinhood Strategies, and for some of the work that we're doing on the agentic side, you should expect that that increases in capability as well, and everything that we do, whenever we, if we do add recommendations, we gotta make sure they're in accordance with Reg BI and all of those rules.

Further, where are you in the process of rolling out, AI powered financial advisors, I believe you're working on it. I I think you've said before, you're in talks with Regulators, but can you kind of share a timeline with us?

Yeah, for sure. So I think when when people talk about AI powered financial advisors

Vlad Tenev: We're making progress on those things, and with Robinhood Strategies, I think it's the best, like, deposit money and we invest it for you product out there today under the fiduciary standard. We actually published some returns and historical performance a couple of weeks ago, which look really good. Now, the other thing people mean when they say financial advice is, I want help just managing my entire spectrum of financial things, right? That involves your banking, your spending and budgeting, your estate planning. We'll have a solution there for you, multiple solutions. With TradePMR, some people still want humans. I should point out, there's a synergy conference for TradePMR coming soon where we're gonna start unveiling some of the things that we've been working with on the human advisor side.

They can mean 1 of 2 different things. Uh, 1 is just specifically advice on what to invest in, right and and that can be a spectrum of things as well, like trading recommendations and allowing you to build trading strategies with, with that ragbi compliant capability. It could also mean, uh, like, Robo advisor services. So, uh, for the ladder, we have Robin Hood strategies and, uh, for some of the work that we're doing on the agentic side, you should expect that, that increases in capability as well. And everything that we do whenever we, uh, if we do add recommendations, we got to make sure they're in accordance with reg bi and all those rules. Um, so we're making progress on those things and with Robin Hood strategies, um, I think it's the best, like, deposit money and we invest it for you product out there today, uh, under the fiduciary standard, we actually publish some returns.

Returns and historical performance, a couple of weeks ago, um, which looked really good. Now, the other thing people mean, when they say Financial advice is, um, I want help just managing my entire spectrum of financial things, right? And that involves your banking, uh, your spending and budgeting your estate planning. Um, and

Vlad Tenev: I think that's a durable product. We should expect human advisors to be around because that fills a very, very specific need that I don't think AI is quite gonna fill in the near term. For the other things, we are working on digital self-serve solutions. We ran a pilot for Concierge where we can do your estate planning, we can do your taxes for you. That's been very successful. Through our self-serve offerings, we also have helped customers with their tax preparation. We're kind of stitching these things together, and you can imagine as we agentify more and more of our endpoints, that lowers the activation energy to having Cortex or AI Assistant seize everything.

We'll have a solution there for you—multiple solutions. So, with trade PMR, some people still want, um, humans, and I should point out there's a Synergy conference for trade PMR coming soon, where we're going to start unveiling some of the things that we've been working on, uh, on the human advisor side. I think that's a durable product. We should expect human advisors to be around, because that fills a very, very specific need that I don't think AI is quite going to fill in the near term.

Vlad Tenev: I think first, our strategy is gonna be to make the capabilities available on an individual basis and later to kinda stitch them together for you.

Then for for the other things we are working on digital self-served Solutions. Uh, we ran a pilot for concierge where we can do your estate planning. We can do your taxes for you. That's been very successful. Um, and through our self-serve offerings, we also have, uh, help customers with their tax preparation. So we're we're kind of stitching these things together and you can imagine as we identify and more and more of our end points that lowers the activation energy to to to having cortex or AI assistance sees everything. But I think first, uh, our strategy is going to be to make the capabilities available on an individual basis and later to kind of stitch them together for you.

Chris Koegel: All right. Thank you, Vlad. The next question is from James Yaro at Goldman Sachs.

James Yaro: Hey, good afternoon, guys. Thanks for taking the question. I just wanted to touch a little bit further on crypto. Maybe just any views on when crypto volumes and prices could stabilize at a high level, and perhaps also just the trends you're seeing across your crypto franchise across client types. I know you commented on the near term take rate dynamics in crypto, but maybe just your thoughts on longer term, what your crypto take rate could do over time.

All right. Thank you, Vlad. Um, the next question is from James yarrow at Goldman Sachs.

Vlad Tenev: Yeah. Maybe I'll hit the outlook and then you can hit the take rate, Shiv.

Hey, good afternoon, guys, thanks for taking the question. Um, I just wanted to touch a little bit further on on crypto. Maybe just any views on on when crypto volumes and and prices, uh, could stabilize at a high level and perhaps also just the trends. You're seeing across your crypto franchise across client dates and you commented on the the near-term uh take rate Dynamics in crypto. But maybe just your thoughts on longer term. Uh what your crypto take rate could do over time? Yeah, maybe I'll hit the, uh,

Shiv Verma: Mm-hmm.

Vlad Tenev: When we talk about crypto, I wanna get away from, you know, talking about the price of Bitcoin or all the other native crypto assets. Our strategy is to take crypto infrastructure and apply it to assets that have real world utility. That's why we care so much about tokenization. You should expect that this is gonna be, I mean, we're at the very beginning of what's gonna be a tokenization super cycle. You're starting to see it a little with the stables. You'll see it with stocks as well, and we're gonna be at the beginning of that. I think you should expect that at the crypto event that we're gonna have in July, tokenization will have a starring role.

Other native crypto assets are strategy is to take crypto infrastructure and apply it to uh assets that have real world utility. That's why we care so much about tokenization. Um, and you should expect that this is going to be. I mean, we're at the very beginning of what's going to be a tokenization super cycle. You're starting to see it a little, with, with the Stables, you'll see it with stocks as well. And we're going to be at the beginning of that. And, and I think you should expect that, uh, at the crypto event. Um,

Vlad Tenev: I think there's a lot of work to do there, but we're still very, very early. Crypto is two things. It's like Bitcoin and other crypto native assets, which I can't tell you what the price is gonna be in 3 months. You know, price moves up and down. What I can tell you is crypto as technology infrastructure is gonna be big, and we're investing. We've got Robinhood Chain, we've got Robinhood Wallet, we've got our tokenization initiatives, and I think we're still very, very early. This is gonna play out over many years, and you'll see the next phase of what we've been working on in the UK in July.

That that we're going to have in July, tokenization will be, uh, uh, will have a starring role and, and I think there's a lot of work to do there, but but we're still very, very early. So crypto is 2 things. It's like Bitcoin and other crypto native assets, which I can't tell you.

Shiv Verma: On the monetization side, a couple of things we'd point you to. First, we are crypto bullish, as Vlad said, but it's less than 20% of our revenue last year, about 18%. It's an important part of the business, but we've vastly diversified. On the take rates specifically, it's an output metric. It's not something we goal on. We're seeing as active traders remain on the platform and we're winning market share, and so we're gonna continue to invest there. The counterfactual is take rates could be higher, but you wouldn't have had as many active traders, and so we don't wanna goal on that. As I mentioned, it's a little bit lower in April, but we're already starting to see it rebound. The other thing we're super excited about is institutional.

What the price is going to be in uh in in 3 months, you know, price moves up and down. But what I can tell you is crypto, as technology infrastructure is going to be big and we're investing. We've got Robin Hood chain. We've got Robin Hood wallet. We've got our tokenization initiatives and I think we're still very, very early. So this is going to play out over over many years. And, uh, you'll, you'll see the next phase of of what we've been working on, uh, in the UK in July,

Shiv Verma: We bought Bitstamp last year, the crypto exchange, seeing really healthy market share there. Institutional tends to be more resilient throughout the market cycles, we're gaining share there. Everything we're seeing is still healthy, active traders growing an institutional book. As Vlad mentioned, we're making big investments in tokenization and on the infrastructure side as well.

Chris Koegel: All right. Thank you, Shiv. All right, the next question is from Patrick Moley at Piper.

Yeah. And and on the monetization side, a couple things we point you to. Um, first we are crypto bullish as Vlad said but it's less than 20% of our Revenue last year about 18%. So it's an important part of the business but we've vastly Diversified on the take rate specifically, it's an output metric. It's not something we go on, but we're seeing is active Traders remain on the platform and we're winning market share. And so we're going to continue to invest their. The counterfactual is take rates could be higher but you wouldn't have have as many active Traders and so we don't want to go on that. Uh, as I mentioned, it's a little bit lower in April but we're already starting to see it rebound. The other thing we're super excited about is institutional and so we bought bitstamp last year, the crypto exchange, it's been really healthy market, share their institutional tends to be more resilient throughout the market cycles and so we're gaining share there. So everything we're seeing is still healthy active Traders, growing in institutional book. And as Vlad mentioned, we're making big investments in tokenization and all the infrastructure side as well.

All right. Thank you, Chef. All right, the next question is from Pat—uh, Patrick Moly at Piper.

Patrick Moley: Yes, good afternoon. Thanks for taking the question. Vlad and Shiv, one of the things you guys have done great historically has been in understanding where the puck is going in terms of retail trends, whether that's altcoin trading and Dogecoin or prediction markets here more recently. One, I think the biggest story in my mind in retail trading year to date has been in perpetual futures, and I don't know if we've touched on it yet this call. I know you launched crypto perpetual futures in Europe in Q4. Would love to get your thoughts or just an update on how that rollout's gone, what adoption trends have looked like. We've seen volumes kind of explode on some of these on-chain venues like Hyperliquid.

Yes. Good afternoon. Uh thanks for taking the question. So I'm Vlad and and shiv 1 of the things you guys have done. Great historically has been in understanding where the puck is going in terms of retail Trends, whether that's all coin trading and Dogecoin or prediction markets here more recently. But 1, I think that the biggest story in my mind in retail trading year to date has been In Perpetual Futures and I don't know if we've touched on it yet this call I know you launched.

Patrick Moley: Vlad, would love to just get your broader thoughts on perpetuals as a product going forward internationally and, you know, what are the hurdles to maybe offering that to US customers as well? Thanks.

Crypto Perpetual Futures in Europe in the fourth quarter so would love to get your thoughts or just an update on how that role out's gone, what adoption Trends have looked like and we've seen volumes kind of explode on some of these on-chain venues like hyper liquid. So Vlad would love to just get your broader thoughts on perpetuals as a

Vlad Tenev: Yeah, absolutely. The perpetuals product, I'm glad you asked about it because in Shiv's answer to the last question, I was gonna butt in and say, you know, perpetuals overseas have been doing really, really well. Of course, we've listed those on Bitstamp, our exchange, and are making them available to EU customers. We're seeing healthy growth. The product keeps getting better and better. It's a regulated product, unlike some of the on-chain competition, which means that, you know, we can't go quite as high on the leverage that we offer to customers. Customers have been requesting, and we've been increasing that. Yeah, we're doubling down. We've got our perpetuals team is working hard, and we see an opportunity to offer even more to customers.

Vlad Tenev: Now, as far as the US goes, we do need some rule changes to offer perpetuals here. The products that some of the other firms have been offering that they've been calling perpetuals are really just long expiry traditional futures contracts. You don't quite have perpetual contracts in the US. I think that's actually not an amazing thing thus far because people have been going to these unregulated offshore entities where there's not as much protection, not as many rules. Yeah, stay tuned. Of course, we're engaging with the regulators and, you know, we have the ability since we have this product in the EU to roll it out in the US as well. I do think it's an attractive product for active traders.

Product going forward internationally. And um, you know what are the hurdles to maybe offering that to us customers as well? Thanks. Yeah, absolutely. Um, the perpetuals product. Uh, I'm glad you asked about it because, in in shiv's, uh, uh, answer to the last question. I was going to butt in and say, you know, perpetuals overseas have been doing really, really well, um, and of course, we've listed those on bitstamp, our exchange and are making making them available to EU customers and we're seeing Healthy Growth. The products keeps getting better and better. Uh, it's a regulated product. Unlike some of the on-chain competition, which means that, you know, we can't go quite as high on The Leverage that we offer to customers, but customers have been requesting and we've been increasing that. Um, so yeah, we're we're doubling down. Uh, we've got our perpetuals team is working hard and we we see an opportunity to offer even more uh to to customers. Now, as far as

As far as the US goes, we do need some rule changes to offer perpetuals here. The products that some of the other firms have been offering, that they've been calling perpetuals, are really just long-expiry traditional futures contracts. So, you don't quite have perpetual contracts in the US, and I think that's actually,

Vlad Tenev: We'll definitely be on the front lines of any perpetuals expansion or regulatory easenings here.

You know, we we have the the ability since we have this product in the EU to roll it out in the US as well. And I do think it's a it's an attractive product for, for active Traders. So we'll we'll definitely be on the front lines of any uh perpetuals uh expansion or regulatory ease Innings here.

Chris Koegel: Okay. Thank you, Vlad. The next question is from Tanner from Future Investing.

Vlad Tenev: Tanner.

Okay. Thank you, Vlad. Uh, the next question is from Tanner from Future Investing.

Tanner: Hey, Vlad. Hey, Shiv. Thanks for having me, guys. My question's on AI and automation. You guys have been early here at Robinhood, but how has this shifted your hiring strategy, and where are you seeing efficiencies or reduced hiring needs across the organization?

Tannor Messman: Hey, Vlad. Hey, Shiv. Thanks for having me, guys. My question's on AI and automation. You guys have been early here at Robinhood, but how has this shifted your hiring strategy, and where are you seeing efficiencies or reduced hiring needs across the organization?

Tanner.

Hey, Vlad. Hey, Chev, thanks for having me, guys.

Vlad Tenev: Shiv?

Um, my questions on AI and automation—you guys have been early here at Robinhood. But how has this shifted your hiring strategy, and where are you seeing efficiencies or reduced hiring needs across the organization?

Shiv Verma: Yeah. Happy to take this. A couple of things I'll point you to. You know, last year we said we had $100 million in efficiency, primarily in CX and software engineering. If you look at our volumes last year, they grew about 50%, and hiring and customer service was about flat.

Vlad Tenev: While we didn't need to reduce any of hiring, what we were able to do is absorb all of our volumes through the increased productivity, which is great. What we're doing now is we're just shipping faster. We're still hiring engineers, we're still growing, but we're using the efficiencies to just keep delivering for products for customers. That's where you think the big unlock is gonna come. It's not just engineering, as I mentioned. Everybody across the firm right now is adopting AI. They're using it in their workflows. We're getting AI pilled. It's been incredible to see, and you're gonna see that start to go out in many areas. Marketing is a great example. The team just launched some campaigns that were built end-to-end using entirely AI, which is great.

Shiv Verma: While we didn't need to reduce any of hiring, what we were able to do is absorb all of our volumes through the increased productivity, which is great. What we're doing now is we're just shipping faster. We're still hiring engineers, we're still growing, but we're using the efficiencies to just keep delivering for products for customers. That's where you think the big unlock is gonna come. It's not just engineering, as I mentioned. Everybody across the firm right now is adopting AI. They're using it in their workflows. We're getting AI pilled. It's been incredible to see, and you're gonna see that start to go out in many areas. Marketing is a great example. The team just launched some campaigns that were built end-to-end using entirely AI, which is great.

Ship. Yeah, happy to take this. Um, so a couple things I'll point you to, you know, last year we said we had a hundred million dollars in efficiency primarily in CX and software engineering. If you look at our volumes last year, they grew about 50% and hiring in customer service was about flat. And so while we didn't need to reduce any of your hiring, what we were able to do is in uh absorb all of our volumes through the increased productivity, which is great. What we're doing now is we're just shipping faster. So we're still hiring Engineers, we're still growing, but we're using the efficiencies to just keep delivering for products for customers. And so, that's where you think the big in lock is going to come, but it's not just engineering. As I mentioned. So everybody across the firm right now is adopting AI. They're using a

Vlad Tenev: All of the non-developer teams are also using them in their workflows. For us, I think the biggest thing is we can absorb volumes through AI efficiencies, and we can ship faster for customers across many different vectors.

Shiv Verma: All of the non-developer teams are also using them in their workflows. For us, I think the biggest thing is we can absorb volumes through AI efficiencies, and we can ship faster for customers across many different vectors.

Workflows. We're getting AI pills. It's been incredible to see, and you're going to see that start to go out in many areas. So, marketing is a great example. The team just launched some campaigns that were built end-to-end using entirely AI, which is great. All of the non-developer teams are also using them in their workflows. So for us, I think the biggest thing is we can absorb volumes through AI efficiencies, and we can ship faster for customers across many different vectors.

Chris Koegel: All right. Thank you, Shiv. The next question is from Brian Bedell with Deutsche Bank.

All right. Thank you. Shiv, the next question is from Brian Bedell with Deutsche Bank.

Brian Bedell: Hey, guys. Can you see me?

Shiv Verma: Yes.

Brian Bedell: Oh, it looks like my video's stuck. I don't think my video is working. Okay. Can you hear me okay?

Shiv Verma: Yes.

Vlad Tenev: Yeah, we can hear you.

Brian Bedell: Yes. All right, all right, great. Good afternoon. Hey, I wanted to just touch on the trading behavior between active and less active traders. Really the, as you bring in more accounts, and the net deposits continue to really up, you know, perform very well, how are you seeing the customer mix evolve from those new deposits? What I'm getting at is, you know, to what extent are these more active traders and you're building that book faster than, say, the less active traders? Just thinking about how the different market environments could influence the trading patterns. Then also just on crypto as well, are you seeing a lot of crosscurrents between those active traders using crypto, or is that really a separate class of traders?

Thank you. Okay, can you hear me okay?

Yes. Yeah, we can hear you. Yeah. All right. All right, great. Uh, good afternoon. Um, hey, uh, just I wanted to just touch on the, um, the, um, the, the, the, the trading Behavior between active and less active, uh, Traders. So really the, um, as you bring in more, um, accounts and the net deposits continue to, to Really, uh, you know, perform very well.

How are you seeing the customer? Customer. Mix evolved from those new deposits. So what I'm getting at is you know, to what extent are these more active traders in your building that book faster than say, the less active Traders, just thinking about how the different Market environments could influence, um, the trading patterns and then also just on on crypto, as well. Are you seeing a lot of cross currents between those active Traders using crypto? Or is that really a separate separate class?

Vlad Tenev: I mean, one of the things that we've been really excited about is the growth in Gold attach rates. Remember, the Gold attach rate of new customers used to be in the low single digits, and now it's 40%. 40% of new customers that come in end up adopting Gold, and that customer typically then goes into the high yield offering, which is a great value prop for Gold. If you remember, if you have Gold, you get interest on your cash on Robinhood with $2.5 million of FDIC protection. You also get interest on your options collateral, which for the active traders is a very nice new feature that they've been asking for for a while, along with just, like, dozens of other things, right? You've got the Gold credit card.

Of creators.

I mean, 1 of the things that we've been really excited about is the growth in Gold, attach rates. So, remember, the gold attach rate of new customers used to be in the low single digits, um, and now it's 40%. So, 40% of new customers that come in, end up, adopting gold and that customer typically then goes into, um, the high yield offering, which is a great value prop for gold. So if, if you remember, if you have gold, you get interest on, uh, your cash on Robin Hood with 2 and a half million of FDIC protection. Uh, you also get interest on your option, collateral, which for the active Traders is uh, very, very nice. New feature that they've been asking for for a while. Along with just like,

Vlad Tenev: Banking is a Gold-only offering. The behavior we've been seeing is someone comes in a large portion of the time, they try Gold, then they start looking at all the other products that we offer, and we've been, we've been really successful in kind of driving that adoption. Trading might not be a daily use case for most people. I mean, some people build up their portfolios, then they kind of trade a little bit less frequently. Some of the other products, like your banking, your credit card, are a daily use case product. I think we have a huge opportunity in the coming months and years to get more and more of our customers into banking and credit.

Dozens of other things, right? You've got uh, the gold Credit Card banking is uh, gold only offering. So we've been the the behavior we've been seeing is someone comes in a large portion of the time. Uh, they they try gold. Then they start looking at all the other products that we offer. And we've been, we've been really successful in kind of driving that adoption and trading might not be

Vlad Tenev: Then we think that, you know, even though the numbers are really good with 800,000 cardholders and 125,000 bank accounts with a 40% direct deposit attach rate, these are still relatively small numbers, and I think we've got a lot of wood to chop to get more and more of our customers on them. I think that'll be a big tailwind to multi-product adoption over the next year.

Uh, daily use case for most people. I mean, some people build up their portfolios, then they kind of trade, uh, a little bit less frequently, but some of the other products, like your banking, your credit card, are daily use case products. And I think we have a huge opportunity in the coming months and years to get more and more of our customers into banking and credit. And, and then we think that, you know, even though the numbers are really good with 800,000 cardholders and 125,000 bank accounts with a 40% direct deposit attach rate.

I think we've got a lot of wood to chop to get more and more of our customers on them. So I think that'll be a big tailwind to multi-product adoption over the next year.

Shiv Verma: In terms of where the deposits are coming from, I think the main way to look at it is just broadly diversified. As Vlad said, it's going into retirement, it's going to ETFs, it's also going to high-yield cash, it's also going into trading. It's one of the benefits of being a diversified business. That's one of the ways we have the $18 billion net deposits. It's customers using the platform in a wide variety of ways.

Chris Koegel: All right. Thank you, Shiv. Thank you, Vlad. The next question is from David Smith at Truist.

Yeah. Um, in terms of where the deposits are coming from, I think the main way to look at it is just, broadly, diversified. So, as Vlad said, it's going into retirement, it's going to ETFs, it's also going to high-yield cash, it's also going to trading. So it's one of the benefits of being a diversified business. That's one of the ways we had the $18 billion net deposits. It's customers using the platform in a wide variety of ways.

All right. Thank you, Chef. Thank you, Vlad. Uh, the next question is from David Smith at Truist.

David Smith: Hi. Following up on the discussion about banking, could you talk a little bit more about, you know, the extent to which you see this driving new customer growth as opposed to, like, ARPU expansion and, you know, the leverage you see for both there?

Vlad Tenev: Yeah. I think that there is a lot of potential there, and we haven't really tapped it because right now, the way that we've been giving customers banking is we've largely been giving it to Gold Card customers. Gold Card customers are largely being driven by existing customers. The story has really been getting our existing customers to adopt the Gold Card. I think over the next year, you should see it shifting a little bit more from that to getting new customers on board who come specifically for the Gold Card and adopt our brokerage and retirement services as an adjunct to doing that.

Hi. Um following up on the um on the discussion about banking could you talk a little bit more about, you know, the extent to which you see this driving, um, new customer growth as opposed to um to like rpu expansion and you know, the The Leverage you see, for both their

Yeah, um, I think that there is a lot of potential there and we haven't really tapped it because, uh, right now the way that we've been giving customers banking is, we've largely been giving it to Gold Card customers, and Gold Card customers are—the Gold Cards are still—are largely being driven by, uh, existing customers. So, the story has really been getting our existing customers to, uh, adopt the Gold Card. Now, I think over the next year, you should see it shifting a little bit more from that.

Vlad Tenev: We've run some experiments there, but there's a whole bunch of things that we'll have to do to make that smoother and nicer, that I think we're excited about. Yes, big opportunity. It's been really about proving the economics, and we frankly, I think despite the fact that some customers wish they could get the Gold Card earlier and earlier, if you look at Successful credit card rollouts and the speed with which we're rolling out these cards, this is actually right near the top. by all objective measures, if you look at card programs that have rolled out faster than us, they've pretty much gotten into trouble, right? We're right up there with, like, fast yet responsible rollout. We haven't been limited by this at this point.

To, uh, getting new customers on board who come specifically for the Gold Card and adopt our brokerage and retirement services as an adjunct to doing that. We've run some experiments there. But

There's a whole bunch of things that we'll have to do to make that smoother and nicer, um, that, uh, that I think we're excited about. So yes, big opportunity. Um, it's been really about proving the economics and we, frankly, um, I think despite the fact that some customers wish they could get the Gold Card earlier—and earlier—if you look at successful credit card rollouts and the speed with which we're rolling out these cards, this is actually right near the top, like by, by all objective measures. If you look at card programs that have rolled out faster than us,

Vlad Tenev: As we approach, as we get into the millions of cardholders, you should expect a little bit more top of funnel with the card and banking, which I think increasingly is gonna be part of the same package. I mean, when you think of Gold Card, you'll think of banking as one and the same.

They pretty much gotten into trouble, right? So, we're right right up there with like Fast yet responsible rollouts. So, we, we haven't been limited by this at this point. Um, but as we as we approach, uh, as we get into the millions of card holders, you should expect a little bit more top of funnel uh with the card and uh banking which, which I think increasingly is going to be part of the same package. I mean, when you think of gold card, You'll Think of banking as

1 and the same.

Chris Koegel: All right. Thank you, Vlad. The next question is from John Todaro at Needham.

John Todaro: Hey, guys. Good to see you. Thanks for taking my question. Wondering if we could just go back to Bitstamp for a moment. As you pointed out, it's obviously been quite resilient despite the crypto downturn. You'd mentioned institutional lending earlier on the call. Just wondering if you could expand on that or more cross-sell opportunities within that segment to kinda drive some additional revenue beyond crypto trading.

All right. Thank you, Vlad. Uh, the next question is from John Todaro at NEDM.

Vlad Tenev: Yeah. I mean, I would just tell you at the high level, we closed our acquisition of Bitstamp about a year ago, and one of the first things we did right around our crypto event in the south of France last year, was we got together with a lot of our institutional customers for Bitstamp. We had a nice lunch, and it was very eye-opening 'cause I got my notepad out. I was like, Tell me, you know, all the things that I need to write down. We're gonna deliver them to you in record time to make sure all of your volume happens on Bitstamp. You know, I was expecting all these fancy things, but it's like, I just want you to not drop my packets.

Hey guys, good to see you. Thanks for taking my question. Um, wondering if we could just go back to to bitstamp for a moment. Um, as you pointed out, it's obviously been quite resilient despite the crypto downturn. Um, you had mentioned institutional lending earlier on the call just wondering if you could expand on that or or more for sale opportunities within that segment to to kind of Drive some additional revenue of the Beyond crypto Trading.

Yeah, I mean, I would just tell you at the, at the high level. Um, so we closed our acquisition of Bitstamp about a year ago, and one of the first things we did, right around our crypto event in the south of France last year.

Uh, we got together with a lot of our institutional customers.

For Bitstamp, we had a nice lunch and it was very eye-opening because I got my notepad out. I was like, tell me, you know, all the things that I need to write down. We're going to deliver them to you in record time to make sure all of your volume happens on Bitstamp. And, you know, I was expecting all these fancy things, but it's like,

Vlad Tenev: When I submit an order, I want you to acknowledge. It's like basic stuff, right? We just went through. We've been fixing that stuff. Our exchange at first couldn't handle a huge throughput of messages per second, so we were, like, getting throttled. Things were slow, right? The engineering team has been doing yeoman's work of fixing all that. You're talking about, you know, increases in institutional market share and all these things. There's just a lot of low-hanging fruit here, which is what makes us so excited about, you know, all the things that we're adding. This is even before the institutional lending desk upgrades, before all the things that we're doing with perpetual futures.

I just want you to not drop my packets when I submit an order; I want you to acknowledge, so it's, like, basic stuff, right? And we, we, we just went through— we've been fixing that stuff. Our exchange at first couldn't handle a huge throughput of messages per second, so we were, like, getting throttled; things were slow, right? So the engineering team has been doing yeoman's work of fixing all that. So, um,

Vlad Tenev: I think we're at the very beginning and, you know, you should expect, you know, telling the customers this, you know, Keep giving us the list. We wanna earn your institutional business. I think we've demonstrated that this team can ship.

Shiv Verma: On the institutional lending side, it's actually very simple. As Vlad said, a lot of it's just working capital. You're not taking credit risk, but a lot of the institutional clients are used to having capital to trade either instantaneously or in a working capital needs, whether it's overnight or on the weekends. Given our balance sheet and our technology, we're able to provide that. It's another thing that was just a low-hanging fruit that we're seeing really great adoption on, which is another way to monetize, but also grow market share.

Chris Koegel: All right. Thank you. The next question is from Amit from Amit is Investing.

You know, keep keep giving us the list. We want to earn your institutional business and uh I think I think we've demonstrated that this team can ship. Yeah. On on the institutional lending side, it's actually very simple as lad said a lot of it's just working capital, so you're not taking credit risk, but a lot of the institutional clients are used to having Capital to trade either instantaneously or, or in a working capital needs. In other words, overnight, or on the weekends, given our balance sheet and our technology, we're able to provide that. And so it's another thing that was just a low-hanging fruit that we're seeing really great adoption on, which is another way to monetize. But, but also grow market share.

All right, thank you. Uh, the next question is from Ahmed. Ahmed is investing.

Amit: Hey, Vlad. Hey, Shiv. Congrats on a great quarter, thank you for taking my question. My question is around international expansion. You guys just got the Singapore license, bought a brokerage in Indonesia. Is the plan to kind of expand through crypto offerings, maybe tokenization, then banking products, different promotions to get customers? I guess, can you walk us through how you think of global expansion going into 2027 and what the strategy is to get customers in these different countries? Thank you, guys.

Amit Kukreja: Hey, Vlad. Hey, Shiv. Congrats on a great quarter, thank you for taking my question. My question is around international expansion. You guys just got the Singapore license, bought a brokerage in Indonesia. Is the plan to kind of expand through crypto offerings, maybe tokenization, then banking products, different promotions to get customers? I guess, can you walk us through how you think of global expansion going into 2027 and what the strategy is to get customers in these different countries? Thank you, guys.

Vlad Tenev: Yeah. It's actually both. We wanna be everywhere with our core products, and the core products being obviously trading and eventually banking and spending. In a few markets where it makes sense and there's, like, well-established regulatory environments that we can follow, we've gone and gotten full licensure. That's the in-principle approval in Singapore, you mentioned Indonesia, and obviously the UK as well. I also think tokenization, which what we unveiled in the EU last year was like Robinhood, but with the infrastructure being on-chain. Instead of traditional equities, Stock Tokens, tokenized stocks.

Hey Brad. Hey Shiv, uh, congrats on a great quarter and thank you for taking my question. Uh, my question is around international expansion. You guys just got the Singapore license, bought a brokerage in Indonesia—is the plan to kind of expand through crypto offerings, maybe tokenization, then banking products, different promotions to get customers? Or, I guess, can you walk us through how you think of global expansion going into 2027 and what the strategy is to get customers in these different countries? Thank you guys.

Vlad Tenev: I think what that'll allow us to do is handle the long tail of if we wanna be live in hundreds of countries, the tokenized offering will just be a quicker way to serve those customers. Then we can see where we're getting particular traction and where we're gonna need to go deeper with more traditional offerings. Typically, what those offerings are is if the jurisdiction has, you know, tax wrappers, for example, that we have to build and very specifically build to. It's the tax wrappers. It's also their local exchanges and market centers. You know, if you wanna trade some obscure exchange like Kazakhstan Securities, which believe it or not, some customers ask for, then we'll have to do local market-specific integrations.

Yeah, so, uh, it's it's actually both, um, we want to be everywhere with our core products and the core products being obviously, uh, uh, trading and, and eventually Banking and, and spending. So in, in a few markets, where it makes sense. And there's like, well established, uh, regulatory environments that we can follow, we've gone and gotten full lensure. That's the in principle approval in Singapore. Uh, you mentioned in Indonesia and, and obviously the UK as well. Um, I also think tokenization, which, what we unveiled in the EU last year, was like Robin Hood, but with the infrastructure being onchain. So instead of traditional equities stock tokens. So, uh, tokenized stocks, um, and I think what that'll allow us to do is handle the long tail of if if we want to be live in hundreds of countries, um, the tokenized offering will just be a quicker way.

To serve those customers. And then we can see where we're getting particular traction and where we're going to need to go deeper with more traditional operating. And typically what those offerings are is, if the jurisdiction has, you know, tax wrappers, for example, that that we have to build and and very specifically uh build to its the tax wrappers. It's also their local exchanges and Market centers. So, you know, if you're if you want to trade some uh, some obscure

Shiv Verma: Yeah. Our simple two-by-two matrix is organic and non-organic brokerage or crypto. If you go through those four boxes, we've actually gone through all of them. Some of them we've built organically through brokerage, such as the UK. Some of them we've built organically through crypto, such as the EU, and we've also done acquisitions. To Vlad's point, we wanna be everywhere. We're indifferent to which way we go. We're gonna look at what's the speed to market, what's the best ROI, and how do we have the right to win for customers, and then that's gonna be the path for how we choose.

Exchanges like the Kazakhstan Securities Exchange—which, believe it or not, some customers have asked for—we'll have to do local market-specific integrations.

Vlad Tenev: The line between these is gonna get increasingly blurred. Even though EU is brokerage first, we have Stock Tokens, which gives you exposure, equities exposure. I think you'll see that as a trend too. We'll be getting more and more traditional brokerage assets in tokenized form and delivered to customers around the world.

Yeah. Or or simple 2 by 2 Matrix is uh organic and non-organic brokerage or crypto. If you go through those 4 boxes we've actually gone through all of them. Some of them we've built organically through brokerage such as the UK, some of them we've built organically through cryptos such as the EU. And we've also done Acquisitions to vlad's point, we want to be everywhere, we're in different to which we go. We're going to look at what's the speed to Market, and what's the best Roi? And how do we have the right to win for customers? And then that's going to be the path for how we choose. Yeah. And the, the, the line between these is going to get increasingly blurred. So, even though EU is brokerage first, we have stock tokens, which gives you exposure, uh, equities exposure. So, um, I think you'll see that as a trend to, we'll be getting more and more traditional brokerage Assets in tokenized form and, uh, delivered to customers around the world.

Chris Koegel: All right. Thank you. The next question is from Ramsey at Cantor.

All right, thank you. The next question is from Ramsey at Kanter.

Ramsey El-Assal: Hi, guys. Thank you so much for squeezing me in here. I wanted to ask about the Trump Accounts again, and just get your thoughts on, you know, levels of engagement there. Also the degree to which you might have a plan to, you know, cross-sell or whether you'll be able to sort of cross-sell some of your other products over time into that base.

Vlad Tenev: Look, I think for us, this is really a long-term opportunity. It's an opportunity to be in front of this next generation of customers, and an opportunity to show that, you know, we can be a reliable partner to the US government as they're pursuing initiatives, right? I think that, you know, we're proud to be a part of the program. We're not really spending too much time thinking about how this could be done to benefit us. We're instead focused on, you know, how we can make the best product that the government has ever been associated with.

Hi guys, thank you so much for squeezing me in here. Um, I wanted to ask about the Trump accounts again and just get your thoughts on, you know, levels of engagement there, uh, and also the degree to which you might have a plan to, you know, cross-sell or whether you'll be able to sort of cross-sell some of your other products, uh, over time and into that base.

Look, I think, I think for us this is really a long-term opportunity. It's it's an opportunity to be in front of this next generation of customers, um, and an opportunity to show that, you know, we, we can be, uh, we can be a reliable partner to the US government as they're pursuing initiatives, right? And I think that um, you know, we're proud to be a part of the program. Uh, we're not really uh, spending too much time thinking about how this could be done to benefit us where instead focused on um

Vlad Tenev: With our friends over at National Design Studio, I think we're all just super motivated to make sure this is like one of the best financial products we've ever used. Of course, we're proud of our role as the sole initial broker and trustee. We don't take that lightly. We wanna make sure that we deliver the highest possible quality product that we can. We're very proud of what we're gonna do. We've got some of our best people working on it, and I believe that good things will follow from us doing this as a business.

Chris Koegel: All right. Thank you, Vlad. The next question is from Ed Engel at Compass Point.

Studio. Um, I I think we're all just super motivated to, uh, to make sure this is like 1 of the best financial products we've ever used. Um, and, uh, of course, we're we're proud of our role as the sole initial broker and trustee. We, don't take that lightly and uh, we, we want to make sure that we deliver the highest, the highest possible, quality product that we can, we're very proud of. We're going to do the best, uh, we've got some of our best people working on it, and I believe that, um, good things will follow, uh, from, uh, from us doing this as a business,

All right. Thank you, Vlad. The next question is from Ed Angle at Compass Point.

Ed Engel: Hi. Thanks for taking the question. You mentioned strong April rebounds across equities, options, and prediction markets. Did you give an update on how April crypto volumes are trending relative to the past few months?

Vlad Tenev: Good question. No, didn't give an update on that. I'd say it's probably more of the same. We are really seeing the rebound in equities options, and as I mentioned, prediction markets, around $3 billion, which will probably be our second-best month ever. Margin book also continues to grow. Crypto also remains about similar to what it was in Q1 and kind of in that zip code.

Shiv Verma: Good question. No, didn't give an update on that. I'd say it's probably more of the same. We are really seeing the rebound in equities options, and as I mentioned, prediction markets, around $3 billion, which will probably be our second-best month ever. Margin book also continues to grow. Crypto also remains about similar to what it was in Q1 and kind of in that zip code.

Um, hi, thanks for taking my question. Um, you mentioned strong April rebounds across equities, options, and prediction markets, but did you get an update on how April crypto volumes are trending relative to the past few months?

Uh, good question. No, didn't didn't give an update on that? I'd say it's probably more of the same. We are really seeing the rebound in equities options and, as I mentioned, prediction markets—around $3 billion, which will probably be our second best month ever. Margin book also continues to grow. Uh, crypto also remains about similar to what it was in Q1 and kind of in that zip code.

Chris Koegel: All right. Thank you, Shiv. The next question is from Michael Cyprys at Morgan Stanley.

Michael Cyprys: Hey, good afternoon. Thanks for taking the question. Wanted to ask about API connectivity. Just curious how API connectivity is contributing to Robinhood today. I believe you offer it in crypto. Hoping you could elaborate a bit on your API strategy, key use cases, how you see the opportunity set there emerging on a multi-year view.

All right, thank you, Chev. The next question is from Michael Cyprus at Morgan Stanley.

Vlad Tenev: Yeah, it's a great question. You know, historically, we've been, we haven't really invested too much in API offerings. I think we've been focusing on building first-party experiences that maximally leverage our strengths of like design and user experience. That said, we're interested in API offerings. I think that now that, you know, things are shifting in a more agentic direction, like there's a opportunity for us to be differentiated there. We're a low-cost provider. We have great infrastructure. We have great APIs that we use internally. I know there have been a lot of projects out there on GitHub and other things where people kind of, attempt to reverse engineer in a unsupported way. There's obviously demand for it. Stay tuned.

Hey, good afternoon. Thanks for taking the question. Um, I wanted to ask about API connectivity. Just curious how API connectivity is contributing to Robinhood today. I believe you offer it in crypto—hoping you could elaborate a bit on your API strategy, key use cases, and how you see the opportunity set there emerging on a multi-year view.

Yeah, it's a great question. You know? Historically we've been, um, uh, we have been really invested too much in API offerings. I think we've been focusing on building first-party experiences that, uh, maximally leverage our strengths of like design and user experience. Um, that said we're interested in API offerings. I think that now, that, you know, things are shifting in a more agentic direction. Um,

Vlad Tenev: You know, when we do release something, we do generally try to make it really, really good, and I think this is an area of opportunity.

Like there's there's uh opportunity for us to be differentiated there. We're a low-cost provider, we have great infrastructure, we have great apis, that we use internally and I know there have been a lot of projects out there on GitHub and other things where people kind of uh uh attempt to reverse engineer in a supported in a unsupported way. Um, so there's obviously demand for it so um stay tuned. You know, when we do release something we we do generally try to make it really, really good. And I think this is an area of opportunity.

Chris Koegel: All right. The next question comes from Roy, from Crossroads. I mean, Dr. Roy from Crossroads.

Vlad Tenev: Dr. Roy.

All right, uh, the next question comes from Roy, uh, from Crossroads—I mean, Dr. Roy from Crossroads.

Roy: Thanks, guys. Congratulations on the Trump Accounts. I wanted to ask another follow-up question on that as well. And congratulations on that. You note in the earnings slide deck that it's a new way to extend Robinhood's mission to helping governments, that's plural, and I thought that plural was very interesting, to build a public sector business. Beyond just this specifically with short term with the Robinhood partnership with BNY and the Trump Accounts, what does that look like as far as that public sector business? Maybe comment on that plural as well. I know you probably can't name individual governments beyond the US.

Ryan Roy: Thanks, guys. Congratulations on the Trump Accounts. I wanted to ask another follow-up question on that as well. And congratulations on that. You note in the earnings slide deck that it's a new way to extend Robinhood's mission to helping governments, that's plural, and I thought that plural was very interesting, to build a public sector business. Beyond just this specifically with short term with the Robinhood partnership with BNY and the Trump Accounts, what does that look like as far as that public sector business? Maybe comment on that plural as well. I know you probably can't name individual governments beyond the US.

Vlad Tenev: I mean, it's really two things, Roy. You know, one is it's not always easy to be a government subcontractor. We're learning how to do it, right? It's a first thing for us, but there was a long process to get to this point. I don't know if a lot of other fintechs have made that leap. You know, it's like, as a company that's been around for a little bit more than 10 years, it's a big step for us. I mean, we think there's a number of ways that we could help this country. I think it's going to be important, right? Because there's certainly a lot of disruption coming with AI and with other things.

Dr. Thanks guys. Uh, congratulations on the Trump accounts. I wanted to ask another follow-up question on that as well, uh, and congratulations on that. Um, you note in the earning slide deck that it's a new way to extend Robin Hood's mission to helping governments. That's plural. And I thought that plural is very interesting to build a public sector business. And so beyond, just this specifically with the short term with the robin, uh, Hood partnership with bny and, uh, the Trump accounts. What does that look like as far as that public sector business? Uh, maybe comment on that plural as well. I know you probably can't name individual governments beyond the US, right? Yeah, I mean it's it's really 2 things. Roy, you know, 1 is it, it's not always easy to be uh, uh, a government subcontractor. Um, and we're learning how to do it, right? It's uh, first thing for us but there was a, a long process to, to get to this point. And um, I don't know if a lot of other fintechs have made that leap, you know, it's like, um, as a company that's been around.

Vlad Tenev: I think that we're well positioned to sort of help with that, and certainly, people's finances are gonna be a key part of that. Yeah, there might be other things that we can be helpful with in the US in the future. Also ever since, You know, we've gotten involved with the Trump Accounts. We've heard from lots and lots of states, so not even other countries. It's been states and other countries who just wanna do similar things. Our focus has been on, you know, just doing this one thing, but we also recognize that, once this is successful, I think that it's gonna be something that goes all around the world. Of course, I think that's a big opportunity for us to continue to extend our mission.

For a little bit more than 10 years. Um, it's it's a big step for us. So, yeah, I mean, we, we, we think there's a number of ways that uh, we could help this country and I think it's going to be important, right? Because there's certain a lot of disruption coming, uh, with AI and with other things. And um, I think that we're well positioned to, to sort of help with that. And certainly, um, people's finances are going to be a key part of that. So, uh, yeah, there there might be other things that we can be helpful with in the US and the future and also ever since um,

That it's going to be, uh, something that goes all around the world and, of course, I think that's a big opportunity for us to continue to extend our mission.

Chris Koegel: All right. Thank you, Vlad. The next question is from Craig Maurer at FT Partners.

All right, thank you. Glad the next question is from Craig Mao at FTP Partners.

Craig Maurer: Yes. Hi. Thanks for taking the question. A lot of my questions have been asked and answered, but I wanted to ask about the flurry of states that are speaking out against prediction markets and their concerns there, and if that tempers your excitement for that product at all.

Vlad Tenev: Yeah, I mean, I would love it if the states didn't have concerns, but it's also not irrational, right? This is a jurisdictional dispute. Of course, the CFTC is claiming, and we agree with their standpoint that these are federally regulated products over which they have jurisdiction. You know, the states, some of the states have a different view. You know, we continue to defend our position and think that it would be strange if the states start exerting jurisdiction over federally regulated CFTC products. This is something that'll play out in the coming years.

Yes. Hi, thanks for taking the question. A lot of my questions have been asked and answered, but I wanted to ask about the flurry of, um, states that are, um, speaking out against prediction markets and their concerns there, and if that tempers your excitement for that product at all.

Yeah, I mean, I would love it if the states didn't have concerns, but it's also not, uh, uh,

I mean, it's it's not irrational, right? This is a jurisdictional dispute, of course, the cftc is claiming and, and we agree with their standpoint that these are federally, uh, regulated products over, which they have jurisdiction and, you know, the the states, uh, some of the states, have a different view. So, you know, we we continue to defend our position. Um, and think that it would be strange if if the states start exerting uh, jurisdiction over federally regulated cfdc products. Um, and this, this is something that'll that'll play out in the coming years.

Chris Koegel: All right. Thank you, Vlad. The next question is from StockMKTNewz.

All right. Thank you, Vlad. The next question is from the stock market news.

[Analyst]: I appreciate you guys for allowing me to ask a question here. Congrats, Vlad.

[Analyst] (StockMKTNewz): I appreciate you guys for allowing me to ask a question here. Congrats, Vlad.

Vlad Tenev: No worries.

[Analyst]: Shiv, and the team on a great quarter. I wanted to ask a little bit more about Robinhood Social. Obviously, we got some of the initial people onto that recently. I would like to hear more about updates about how you're thinking about expanding that and maybe just any findings or updates and as you guys have launched that. Appreciate it.

[Analyst] (StockMKTNewz): Shiv, and the team on a great quarter. I wanted to ask a little bit more about Robinhood Social. Obviously, we got some of the initial people onto that recently. I would like to hear more about updates about how you're thinking about expanding that and maybe just any findings or updates and as you guys have launched that. Appreciate it.

Vlad Tenev: Yeah. I mean, people really love engaging with other traders in Robinhood Social. The first rollout was actually to HOOD Summit attendees from last fall, which was kind of fun because a lot of the folks had met in person, and we wanted to start it really, really small. You know, the first pieces of feedback were kind of basic, like, I wanna be able to see the posts that people are engaging with at the top rather than it being chronological, things like that, or, I wanna see who the other traders are that people are engaging with. The team has really been shipping on a weekly basis. You've seen us knock out more and more things and extend the rollout.

I appreciate you guys for, uh, allowing me to ask a question here. Congrats, uh, last name and the team on a great quarter. I wanted to ask, uh, a little bit more about Robinhood Social. Now, obviously, we—we got some of the initial people, uh, onto that recently. I would like to hear more about, uh, updates about how you're thinking about expanding that and maybe just any findings or updates and, uh, as you guys have launched that. Appreciate it.

Yeah. Um, I mean, people really love engaging with, uh, other traders in the Robinhood Community. The first rollout was actually to HOOD Summit attendees from last fall, which was kind of fun. Because a lot of the folks had met, uh, in person, and we wanted to start it really, really small.

Vlad Tenev: We've extended it to other asset classes as well, so you can see the prediction market trades are on there, as well as equities and options trades. There's a really nice experience that we've built that allows you to trade via the posts as well. Yeah, you should expect that to approach general availability in the coming months. We like what we're seeing there. There's obviously a ton to do before this becomes like the world's leading financial and business social media product, that's the aspiration. We think we have some advantages there with the verification, people really care about it in this domain. Plenty more to come.

And um, you know, the the first pieces of feedback were kind of basic. Like I wanted to I want to be able to see the posts that people are engaging with at the top rather than it being chronological things like that. Or I want to see who the other Traders are that people are engaging with. So the team has really been shipping on a weekly basis, you've seen us knock out more and more things and, and extend the roll out, um, and we've extended it to other asset classes as well. So you can see the prediction Market trades are on there, as well as equities, and options trades. And, uh, there's, there's a really nice experience that we've built that allows you to trade, uh,

Uh, via the posts as well. So yeah, you should expect that to, uh, approach general availability in the coming months. We like what we're seeing there. There's obviously, uh, a ton to do before, uh, this becomes like, uh, the world's leading financial and business social media product, but that's—that's the aspiration. Uh, we think we have some advantages there with the verification, and people really, really care about it in this domain. So

Uh, plenty more to come.

Chris Koegel: Great.

Vlad Tenev: Getting creators on it, so stay tuned for that.

Chris Koegel: Great. Thank you, Vlad. That concludes the Zoom queue. Is there anybody else in the audience who's been waiting after we worked through the Zoom queue to ask any more questions? No? Okay. Well, Vlad, I will turn it over to you to end the first outdoor earnings call possibly in history.

Great, and getting creators on it. So stay tuned for that.

Great, thank you, Vlad. So that concludes the, uh, the Zoom queue. Is there anybody else in the audience who's been waiting after we worked through the Zoom queue to ask any more questions?

Vlad Tenev: Where's the Guinness Book of World Records? Invite them to our stuff. Thank you guys very much. Look, I hope you can tell from the presentation. Like, we try to convey this, but we've got a team that's working incredibly hard. The roadmap just, well, there's incredibly full. There's always more to do. Yeah, we're just incredibly motivated to keep shipping for our customers and for all of you. Thank you for being with us on the journey, and see you next quarter and at our product events in the coming months. Cheers. Appreciate it. Thank you, Shiv.

No. Okay, well then Vlad, I will turn it over to you, to end the first outdoor earnings call, possibly in history, where is where is the Guinness Book of World Records to invite them to our stuff. Um, thank you guys very much. Like, I hope you can tell uh, from the presentation we do a good job to. I we tried to to convey this but we've got a team that's working incredibly hard. The road map just uh, whether there's incredibly full, there's always more to do.

[Analyst]: Thank you.

Shiv Verma: Thank you.

And, uh, yeah, we're just incredibly motivated to keep shipping for our customers and, uh, and for all of you. So thank you for being with us on the journey, and see you next quarter and at our product events in the coming months. So, uh, cheers, appreciate it. And thank you, Shiv. Thank you.

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