The Robinhood UK crypto launch is now confirmed, with the company announcing at a London event on 1 July 2026 that British users will gain access to cryptocurrency trading for the first time. The announcement came alongside a significant expansion of Robinhood’s perpetual futures offering across the EU, the unveiling of a new blockchain, and the formal opening of the company’s Canadian business.
What the Robinhood UK Crypto Launch Means for British Investors
Until now, UK users of the Robinhood app could access stocks and other investment products but not crypto, putting the platform at a disadvantage against UK-native apps that already offer digital asset trading. Robinhood has not given a firm launch date, saying only that crypto is coming soon.
The announcement arrives while the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) continues to tighten rules around crypto promotions and consumer protection, so Robinhood will need to navigate that regulatory environment before any product goes live. The company has not yet said which assets will be available to UK customers on launch.
For EU investors, the changes are more immediate. Robinhood is rolling out commodity, ETF and FX perpetuals (contracts with no expiry date, used to speculate on price moves with leverage) to eligible investors across the bloc. The new products cover gold, silver, WTI and Brent crude oil, EUR/USD, and the QQQ and EWY ETFs, all with leverage up to 10x. Robinhood has described perpetuals as one of its fastest-growing products in the EU since the company expanded to 30 European countries last year.
Robinhood Chain and the Push Into Tokenised Equities
The London event also marked the public mainnet launch of Robinhood Chain, a Layer 2 blockchain (a second-layer network built on top of an existing blockchain to handle more transactions more cheaply) constructed on Arbitrum. That is an upgrade from the earlier setup, in which Robinhood’s first stock tokens were hosted on Arbitrum One before the dedicated chain launched.
Day-one infrastructure partners on the new chain include Uniswap, BitGo, Chainlink, Alchemy, and LI.FI, with prop trading venue Pleiades also integrated. Robinhood’s share price rose more than 8.3% on 1 July 2026, the day of the launch event.
Stock Tokens are now live in the Robinhood Wallet across more than 120 countries, though availability varies by jurisdiction. Eligible users can trade them around the clock and deploy them into decentralised finance (DeFi) activities, such as lending pools or as collateral, through exchanges including Uniswap, Rialto, Lighter, Arcus and 1inch. The original tokenised shares product has been rebranded as Classic Stock Tokens and stays available in the Robinhood Europe app.
Johann Kerbrat, SVP and General Manager of Crypto and International at Robinhood, said the company’s aim is to combine traditional finance with decentralised finance to extend ownership globally, without requiring users to have technical expertise.
In the US, Robinhood is beginning to roll out Robinhood Earn, a self-custody lending product where users can lend the dollar-backed stablecoin USDG at an estimated 7% APY, with insurance provided through Lloyd’s of London and RELM and lending infrastructure running on the Morpho protocol. Agentic trading (AI-assisted execution where humans retain control over capital and risk limits) is also being extended from equities and options into crypto for US users.
Canada Open for Business, Singapore on the Horizon
Robinhood confirmed it is now live in Canada after completing its acquisition of WonderFi. The deal, which received approval from the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO), was priced at approximately C$250 million on a fully diluted basis, representing a premium of approximately 41% to WonderFi’s closing price on the Toronto Stock Exchange on 12 May 2025 and approximately 71% to the 30-day volume-weighted average price as of that date.
Following the close, WonderFi’s two main crypto platforms, Bitbuy and Coinsquare, will come under the Robinhood brand, and WonderFi will be delisted from the Toronto Stock Exchange. Robinhood already had approximately 240 employees in Canada before the acquisition closed, after opening an engineering hub in Toronto in 2024. The Canadian launch pushed the company past more than 1 million international funded customers in total. Canadian users pay zero trading fees until 30 September.
In Singapore, Robinhood has secured a capital markets services licence from the Monetary Authority of Singapore. The company’s in-principle approval (IPA), granted in April 2026, covered dealing in securities, exchange-traded derivatives, and custodial services for both retail and accredited investors through Robinhood Singapore Pte. Ltd., with the full licence now the more recent development referenced by the company. Robinhood now serves close to 28 million customers across 38 countries.
The UK crypto confirmation is the clearest signal yet of how far the Robinhood UK crypto launch ambitions now stretch. Whether the FCA moves quickly to assess and approve the product, or takes its time under the existing crypto promotion regime, will determine whether British users are waiting weeks or considerably longer.
