Robinhood launched its own blockchain, Robinhood Chain, on July 1, 2026, and its self-custody app, Robinhood Wallet, now runs on it. This guide explains how the two compare on what matters: who holds your assets, what you can trade, and where you can use it.
Overview
Overview
Robinhood Wallet is a self-custody app, which means you hold the private keys to your own assets. It is a separate app from the main Robinhood brokerage app. In it you can store, send, receive, and swap crypto, connect to decentralized apps, hold NFTs, and trade perpetual futures through a decentralized exchange called Lighter.
Robinhood Chain is the blockchain, launched July 1, 2026, and Robinhood Wallet supports it natively. Chain is built on the Arbitrum technology stack and adds on-chain trading and lending. The Chain launch also brought stock tokens into Robinhood Wallet. According to Robinhood's own announcement, these stock tokens are tokenized debt securities that track a share's price. They do not give you ownership of the actual share.
Cronos app is a mobile-first trading app that puts stocks, crypto, and prediction markets in one account. It is available in 183 countries, with up to 10x buying power.* Like Robinhood Wallet, it is non-custodial, so you hold your own assets rather than the platform holding them for you.
Cronos app runs 24/7 with no closing bell, and uses a personalized For You feed that surfaces trades based on what you pay attention to. It is built for a global Gen Z audience, with a clean interface and no crypto jargon. Cronos app is built on the Cronos Network, supported by Crypto.com.
How do the two compare?
How do the two compare?
Both apps are self-custody, so on the core question of who holds your assets, they are aligned. The differences show up in scope. Cronos app is built around trading stocks, crypto, and prediction markets in one place across 183 countries. Robinhood Wallet is built around crypto self-custody across many networks, with stock tokens as the newer addition through Robinhood Chain. On the stock side, both use tokenized products rather than direct share ownership, so it helps to understand how tokenized stocks work before choosing either.
| Feature | ||
|---|---|---|
| App type | Self-custody trading app | Self-custody wallet app |
| Account structure | One unified account, every asset class | Multi-chain crypto wallet, assets held per network |
| Countries available | 183 | Stock tokens in 120+ countries, excluding the US |
| Stocks | Tokenized stock products | Tokenized stock products, traded on-chain in the Wallet |
| Crypto trading | Yes | Yes |
| Prediction markets | Yes, rolling out | No |
| Perpetual futures | Yes, with up to 10x buying power | Yes, via the Lighter exchange |
| Trading hours | 24/7 | 24/7 on-chain |
| Personalized feed | For You feed | No equivalent |
| NFTs | No | Yes |
How do tokenized stocks work?
A plain-language guide to what tokenized stocks are and how they are backed.
Which platform is right for you?
Which platform is right for you?
Choose Robinhood Wallet if your main focus is crypto self-custody across many networks, you want to swap tokens and connect to decentralized apps, and you are interested in trading stock tokens on Robinhood Chain where they are available. It fits someone already in the crypto ecosystem who wants a multi-network wallet.
Choose Cronos app if you want stocks, crypto, and prediction markets in one non-custodial account, with up to 10x buying power. Its 183-country reach, prediction markets, and For You feed are built for a global audience that wants every asset class in one place.
Both apps are self-custody and both use tokenized products for stocks rather than handing you a traditional share certificate, so the decision comes down to asset range, network support, and where you live. If you are still weighing whether to focus on stocks or crypto in the first place, that is worth settling before you pick a platform.
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