--- title: "How Robinhood's Meme Coin-Stock Pairings Became A 9-Figure Business" type: "News" locale: "en" url: "https://longbridge.com/en/news/300810051.md" description: "Robinhood has established a nine-figure business by enabling traders to pair real stocks with meme coins via stock tokens. These digital securities, backed 1:1 by underlying shares, trade on open crypto markets, allowing direct swaps in liquidity pools. Although daily volume peaked at $440 million in September before cooling, the initiative serves as a stress test for Robinhood Chain's infrastructure. This strategy supports Robinhood's broader goal of becoming a dominant venue for round-the-clock trading across traditional and crypto assets, leveraging recent SEC exemptions for tokenized US stocks." datetime: "2026-10-02T15:46:22.000Z" locales: - [zh-CN](https://longbridge.com/zh-CN/news/300810051.md) - [en](https://longbridge.com/en/news/300810051.md) - [zh-HK](https://longbridge.com/zh-HK/news/300810051.md) generator: "portal-rs" --- # How Robinhood's Meme Coin-Stock Pairings Became A 9-Figure Business **Robinhood** (NASDAQ:HOOD) built the infrastructure letting traders pair real stocks with meme coins—a bet on fundamentally changing the appeal of meme coins. ### How Stock Tokens Actually Work Bloomberg on Friday reported that Robinhood’s Stock Tokens are digital securities backed 1:1 by underlying shares held with a custodian, with each carrying a live on-chain price feed. Because they trade on the same open crypto markets as meme coins, traders can swap one directly for the other inside a liquidity pool, though that reference price doesn’t control pool activity, where prices can drift sharply from the real stock depending on available liquidity. Daily volume in memecoin-stock-token pairs peaked near $440 million in early September before dropping off fast, according to Dune data. Tokens tied to an S&P 500 ETF, **Nvidia**, **SpaceX**, and **Meta** became the most popular pairings, reaching a combined market value of roughly $69 million at their peak. ### Why This Is Really a Robinhood Story The real story isn’t which meme coin trended last month, but that Robinhood built infrastructure turning its tokenized stock business into the backbone for an entirely new category of on-chain speculation, one it doesn’t need to create or police itself.  Robinhood co-founder **Vlad Tenev** pushed back last month after **AMC** CEO **Adam Aron** demanded Robinhood stop trading a token tied to AMC shares without the company’s involvement.  That standoff shows how little control public companies hold once their stock becomes raw material for crypto markets. Galaxy Digital head of firmwide research **Alex Thorn** called this permissionless structure a preview of what’s possible once tokenized stocks live on open blockchain rails.  Neither Robinhood nor the underlying company needs to approve what traders build around a token. The SEC granted temporary exemptions last month letting certain venues trade tokenized US stocks on-chain under specified conditions, giving this category its first real regulatory foothold.  Robinhood is pushing further too, announcing plans this week for weekend US stock trading alongside leveraged perpetual futures on select cryptocurrencies. ### What It Means Going Forward The meme coin pairing craze has already cooled sharply from its September peak, but it served as a real stress test for Robinhood Chain’s infrastructure under extreme speculative volume. That test matters far more for Robinhood’s tokenization strategy than any individual meme trade. Stock Tokens, weekend trading, and crypto perpetuals are all building toward the same goal. 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