Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev: Tokenization to Transform the Entire Financial System

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Vlad Tenev discusses Robinhood’s Trump Accounts launch, how tokenization could reshape finance, plus prediction markets, agentic trading, and other platform innovations on Squawk Box.

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Vlad Tenev telling CNBC that tokenization will “take over the entire financial system” matters because it is the CEO of Robinhood Markets (HOOD) describing where his company wants to live next: prediction markets, Trump Accounts, agentic trading and a tokenized rails play. The interview is less about a finished product and more about positioning, Robinhood is selling a future where custody, settlement, and new fee lines look very different from today’s brokerage model, which matters for competitors, regulators, and long‑term investors.