They Just Turned AI Agents Loose On Crypto

Robinhood (HOOD) turned AI agents loose on crypto a few days ago.

Their own tagline for it: your agent works the night shift now.

Stocks trade six and a half hours a day, and crypto never closes.

So, an agent connected to your account is working while you sleep, and Robinhood already has more than 100,000 customers using these things.

Now stack tokenization on top of it.

On-chain tokenized equity volume hit $9 billion this year. That's a record, up 207% quarter over quarter and better than 800% year to date. Robinhood built its own blockchain for it, live since July, running 100-millisecond block times because it was designed for machines, not people.

Vlad Tenev is calling it a tokenization supercycle and saying it takes over the entire financial system.

And almost nobody is talking about the prediction markets business, which did $156 million in revenue last quarter with $6 billion in July volume alone. Tenev named the midterms as the next catalyst there.

That's three land grabs running at once, and none of them is the app that made them famous.