Bitcoin News
By Maheen Hernandez
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Robinhood's Cheaper Option Most Users Don't Use. Johann Kerbrat of Robinhood pushed back. There's an alternative, he said — Smart Exchange Routing.
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Insider Trading Case and Platform Restrictions Add Pressure. The spread debate doesn't exist in a vacuum. Two Robinhood engineers were recently charged in an…
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Robinhood's default Bitcoin trading route is costing users close to 2% per transaction. Not a flat fee — a spread baked right into the quoted price, invisible unless you know to…
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The way it works is pretty simple, and kind of frustrating once you see it. Robinhood's market maker routing sends orders to external trading firms rather than to exchanges…
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Delphi Digital co-founder Tommy Shaughnessy put a number on it publicly. He shared a screenshot showing a Bitcoin spread of $1,426.
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Johann Kerbrat of Robinhood pushed back. There's an alternative, he said — Smart Exchange Routing. That option carries a disclosed fee between 0% and 0.
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But here's the thing. If the cheaper route exists, why is the expensive one the default? That's the part that's getting traders annoyed.
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Smart Exchange Routing's 0.95% ceiling is still not cheap by crypto exchange standards. Plenty of spot exchanges charge a fraction of that, especially for users with any…
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The spread debate doesn't exist in a vacuum. Two Robinhood engineers were recently charged in an insider trading case tied to Hyperliquid.
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And then there are the platform restrictions themselves. Robinhood won't let users transfer, stake, or lend their crypto through the platform. That's a meaningful limitation.
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That combination — high default trading costs, restricted asset utility, and now an insider trading scandal involving platform employees — is a rough set of headlines to manage…
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The agentic trading feature is probably the most forward-looking thing Robinhood has done in crypto recently.
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Robinhood built its brand on commission-free stock trading. That pitch resonated hard when it launched — no ticket fees, no minimums, accessible to anyone.
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