Robinhood Adds $25 Million in Bitcoin (BTC) to Its Balance Sheet

Robinhood has purchased $25 million worth of Bitcoin (BTC) for its corporate balance sheet, marking the brokerage's first direct purchase of the asset.

Johann Kerbrat, the firm's senior vice president and general manager for crypto and international, disclosed the purchase on October 7, 2026, while attending Token2049, one of the cryptocurrency industry's largest annual conferences.

The acquisition places Robinhood among a growing group of companies that hold Bitcoin directly on their corporate books. Direct ownership ties a portion of the company's treasury to the value of the asset itself, separate from the cryptocurrency trading services the platform provides to retail customers.

Robinhood Markets (NASDAQ: HOOD), the brokerage best known for offering commission-free trading of stocks and options, first rolled out cryptocurrency trading to its users in 2018. Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, is among the digital assets supported on the platform.

Corporate adoption of Bitcoin as a treasury asset gained momentum after MicroStrategy began accumulating the cryptocurrency in 2020, and a number of public companies have since followed suit. Corporate adopters have often cited Bitcoin's fixed supply of 21 million coins as a rationale for holding the asset, though such holdings remain exposed to the cryptocurrency's price swings. Robinhood's $25 million purchase marks the brokerage's first entry into that category.

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