Robinhood CBO has said the company plans to expand globally and make it “crypto first”.
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- Plans to expand crypto offering once again confirmed
- Beware of adding new coins
The Shiba Inu community has been actively urging a popular online brokerage company to list Shiba Inu since the middle of last year. The petition on Change.org related to the issue has garnered over 550,000 signatures.
Robinhood first teased the SHIB Army with a potential listing, then stated that they plan to keep their options open with regards to listing the new cryptocurrencies and that multiple requests for listing new coins are not lost on the company. .
Plans to expand crypto offering once again confirmed
However, both the CEO of Robinhood and now its chief brokerage officer have stated that the company intends to offer more cryptocurrency options to its clients.
In today’s talk during a new episode of CNBC’s Squawk Box show, Robinhood CBO Steve Quirk said the trading platform was looking for favorable ways to expand its crypto offering, answering a question from co-host Andrew Sorkin. Has been doing. Furthermore, they intend to take their brand globally with this crypto.
“We are doing a lot of research on finding friendly ways to expand this,” says $hood Chief Brokerage Officer Steve Quirk On #crypto Presentation. “We also have aspirations to take this brand globally, and we will #crypto First.” pic.twitter.com/yWth15onJm
— Squawk Box (@SquawkCNBC) February 9, 2022
Beware of adding new coins
The company already has less than 10 coins listed, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero, etc. In a recent interview, CEO Vlad Tenev said that he is very confident in these assets and wants to add more crypto to the business, but he wants to be sure they will not be unregistered securities.
However, the coins listed by Robinhood include Dogecoin, which is a meme cryptocurrency, as well as the Shiba Inu. Hence, it is not clear to the SHIB Army why the listing has not happened yet.
In January, the company began beta testing a cryptocurrency wallet, allowing its users to send cryptocurrency to third-party wallets. DOGE’s biggest fan Elon Musk tweeted that this is a huge deal for Dogecoin.