PANews reported on January 28th that Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev stated that real-time settlement has been difficult to achieve in traditional stock markets due to the need to manage numerous legacy stakeholders. Tokenization has emerged to address this challenge. In Europe, Robinhood has launched over 2,000 tokens representing US-listed stocks. These tokens allow European traders to invest in US stocks and earn dividend income. In the coming months, Robinhood plans to launch 24/7 stock token trading and DeFi services, allowing investors to self-custody their stock tokens and engage in lending, staking, and other operations.


BitGo’s move creates further competition in a burgeoning European crypto market that is expected to generate $26 billion revenue this year, according to one estimate. BitGo, a digital asset infrastructure company with more than $100 billion in assets under custody, has received an extension of its license from Germany’s Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), enabling it to offer crypto services to European investors. The company said its local subsidiary, BitGo Europe, can now provide custody, staking, transfer, and trading services. Institutional clients will also have access to an over-the-counter (OTC) trading desk and multiple liquidity venues.The extension builds on BitGo’s previous Markets-in-Crypto-Assets (MiCA) license, also issued by BaFIN, and adds trading to the existing custody, transfer and staking services. BitGo acquired its initial MiCA license in May 2025, which allowed it to offer certain services to traditional institutions and crypto native companies in the European Union.Read more
