Robinhood's long-term story is bigger than crypto trading

Revenue mix: the hard reallocation

The Q1 2026 split reveals where Robinhood is now sourcing transaction flow:

• Crypto trading: $134M, down 47% YoY; 13% of revenue (down from 20% in 2025)
• Options trading: $260M, up 8% YoY
• Equities trading: $82M, up 46% YoY
• Other transactions (prediction contracts): $147M, up 320% YoY
• Total transaction-based revenue: $623M, up 7% YoY
• Net interest revenue: $359M, up 24% YoY
• Subscription revenue (Gold): $85M, up 57% YoY

For copy strategy providers routing through Robinhood, the standout line is the 320% surge in prediction-contract transaction revenue. That vertical is already generating more revenue than equities trading and is closing the gap on options at current run-rate. Signal authors building on event/prediction markets now have a measurable execution venue underneath them, not a side experiment.

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Infrastructure vectors: Chain, Gold, agentic tooling

Three platform-layer changes matter for systematic and copy-strategy execution:

• Robinhood Chain — Ethereum Layer-2 network for tokenizing stocks, bonds, and real estate. On-platform tokenized settlement rails could compress replication latency for non-crypto copy baskets and unlock 24/7 trading of traditionally session-bound assets.
• Robinhood Gold: 4.3M subscribers, up 36% YoY. The subscription tier gates the lower margin costs, larger withdrawals, and professional data feeds that serious copy traders depend on — subscriber growth is a clean proxy for the addressable copy-trader base.
• Agentic AI integration: cited as a growth lever in forward commentary; no Q1 line item isolates the revenue contribution, so it's a watch-item, not a confirmed driver.

Net interest revenue of $359M (+24% YoY) is a function of user cash balances, margin books, and securities lending — directly tied to active account counts and average funding. For copy traders, more idle capital on platform means more yield for the broker, the same mechanism retail fintechs use to monetize replicated strategies without charging the follower.

Forward calibration

Enterprise value sits at $85B, or 24x next-year adjusted EBITDA. Analyst consensus projects 16% CAGR for both revenue and adjusted EBITDA through 2028. Moderate multiple, sustained reinvestment — consistent with continued build-out of Chain and Gold rather than near-term margin extraction.

Metrics worth tracking on the copy-trading axis:

• Prediction-contract share quarter-over-quarter — current 320% growth is off a small base; persistence matters more than the headline rate.
• Robinhood Chain milestones — mainnet progression and any tokenized equity pairs that let copy strategies replicate outside market hours.
• Gold subscriber growth — direct read on how many users can actually run non-trivial copy books with pro-grade tooling.
• Crypto revenue floor — if crypto stabilizes above $130M/quarter without pushing the mix back above 20%, the diversification thesis holds.

Net read for signal providers and copy network operators: Robinhood is migrating from a crypto-derivative broker into a multi-asset execution venue with a fast-scaling prediction-market vertical and a tokenization stack in development. Copy strategies pegged solely to crypto signals now sit on a smaller revenue share than at any point in the past two years — a structural, not cyclical, shift.