Key Takeaways
- Robinhood launched new crypto trading tools, tax features, and staking in the US, with support for over 45 digital assets.
- European users gained access to XRP and SOL perpetual futures, money market funds, and over 1,000 stock tokens.
Robinhood announced a set of crypto updates across its US and European platforms, expanding trading tools, asset access, and derivatives as it scales its global crypto offering.
In the US, Robinhood Crypto added new tools for active traders and tax tracking. Starting December 22, users can manually add cost basis for crypto deposits to improve visibility into tax lots, profit and loss, and average cost.
The platform expanded its fee tiers from 3 to 7, with rates as low as 0.03% for high-volume traders, and added crypto trading to Robinhood Legend on desktop and mobile. Fee tier support for the crypto trading API is planned for January 2026.
Robinhood also expanded access by launching crypto staking within the app, with staking now available to all New York customers. The platform now supports over 45 crypto assets, including BNB, HYPE, SUI, HBAR, and TON, and has introduced Cortex Digests for Gold customers, alongside enhanced tax lot and realized profit and loss tools.
In Europe, Robinhood expanded across the EU and EEA following MiCA and MiFID approvals and announced the rollout of money market funds to generate yield on uninvested cash. European users now have access to more than 65 digital assets and over 1,000 stock tokens linked to US equities and ETFs.
Perpetual futures trading in Europe has expanded beyond Bitcoin and Ether to include XRP, SOL, DOGE, and SUI, allowing eligible users to trade with up to 7x leverage. Robinhood also announced automatic investments for crypto and stock tokens and plans to launch a web trading platform in Europe later this month.
Looking ahead, the company said it is developing Robinhood Chain, a Layer 2 network built on Arbitrum to support tokenized real-world and digital assets.
Source: https://cryptobriefing.com/robinhood-crypto-tools-europe-launch/
