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Surging cryptocurrency trading helps Robinhood beat earnings – SiliconANGLE

Shares in Robinhood Markets Inc. were up over 3% in late trading today after the financial services company surprised with a second-quarter earnings beat thanks to surging levels of customer trading, particularly in cryptocurrency.
For the quarter ended June 30, Robinhood reported adjusted earnings per share of 21 cents, up from three cents per share in the same quarter of 2023, on revenue of $682 million, up a healthy 40% year-over-year. Analysts had expected earnings per share of 15 cents on revenue of $682 million.
The story of Robinhood’s quarter came down to more people using its trading platform. Transaction-based revenues jumped 69% year-over-year, to $327 million. Options revenue up 43%, to $182 million, cryptocurrencies revenue rocketed 161%, to $81 million, and equities revenue rose 60%, to $40 million. Net interest revenue rose 22%, to $285 million, and other revenue, which includes gold subscription services, rose 19% ,to $70 million.
As of the end of the quarter, the company had 24.2 million funded customers, up 1 million year-over-year and investment accounts rose by 1.4 million, to 24.8 million. Assets under custody were up 57% year-over-year, to $139.7 billion, representing both an increase in net deposits and higher equity and cryptocurrency valuations.
Robinhood successfully managed to mostly contain any increasing costs concurrent with surging use, with total operating expenses up a fairly modest 6% year-over-year, to $493 million.
Notable business highlights in the quarter include Robinhood announcing on June 6 that it had agreed to acquire cryptocurrency exchange Bitstamp Ltd. in a $200 million cash deal. Bitstamp holds more than 50 active licenses across the world. The deal would give Robinhood the ability to expand its cryptocurrency trading service into more countries.
“I’m encouraged by the progress we’re making as a business,” Robinhood Chief Financial Officer Jason Warnick said in the company’s earnings release. “In Q2, we set new quarterly records for revenues and earnings per share as we continue to focus on delivering another year of profitable growth.”
Providing a standard forecast when a sizable portion of your business involves cryptocurrency is a hard ask, and Robinhood didn’t. But the company did say that a previous forecast for operating expenses and stock-based compensation for the full-year 2024 remains unchanged at $1.85 billion to $1.95 billion.
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President Donald Trump will sign a new cryptocurrency bill into law on Friday
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday will sign into law a new set of regulations for a type of cryptocurrency that are seen as a way to legitimize the burgeoning industry.
The GENIUS Act sets initial guardrails and consumer protections for stablecoins, a type of cryptocurrency that is tied to a stable asset like the U.S. dollar to reduce price volatility. It passed both the House and Senate with wide bipartisan margins.
The measure is meant to bolster consumer confidence in the rapidly growing crypto sector. Its passage comes as Trump makes it a mission to make the U.S. the “crypto capital of the world.”
“Congratulations to our GREAT REPUBLICANS for being able to accomplish so much, a record, in so short a period of time,” Trump wrote on his social media site Friday morning as he announced the bill signing.
The House also passed two other bills Thursday that are meant to boost the legitimacy of the crypto industry. One creates a new market structure for cryptocurrency, and the other bans the Federal Reserve from issuing a new digital currency. Both measures now go to the Senate.
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What’s a stablecoin? House passes landmark bills to regulate the cryptocurrency

The Republican-controlled House on Thursday passed landmark legislation to regulate stablecoin in a big win for the cryptocurrency industry.
Bitcoin at all-time high as lawmakers focus on pro-crypto legislation
President Donald Trump, once a crypto skeptic, has become a major promoter of the industry.
Scripps News
- The GENIUS Act creates a regulatory framework for stablecoins, a type of cryptocurrency tied to the value of an asset like the U.S. dollar.
- Advocates say the bill will protect consumers.
- Democrats have raised concerns about President Trump’s financial ties to the crypto indusry.
- Trump last year launched World Liberty Financial, which issued a U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin, and raised raised $550 million selling a different crypto coin known as $WLFI.
- Trump also held a dinner in May for the top purchasers of the $TRUMP meme coin, owned by an affiliate of The Trump Organization.
WASHINGTON – The Republican-controlled House passed a trio of bills on July 17 that amount to a big win for a cryptocurrency industry that has helped make President Donald Trump tens of millions of dollars.
A piece of the landmark legislation package, dubbed the GENIUS Act, creates a regulatory framework for stablecoins, a type of cryptocurrency tied to the value of an asset like the U.S. dollar.
Advocates say the primary bill will help protect consumers and set industry standards that could allow stablecoins to become mainstream for digital payments and other financial instruments.
The main bill, approved by the Senate in June, passed the House by a vote of 308-122, with all Republicans and several Democrats voting in favor. It is now headed to Trump’s desk to be signed into law.
“This is a historic opportunity for the United States. After years of work, American innovators are one step closer to having the clarity they need to build here at home while ensuring the future of the digital economy reflects our values of privacy, individual sovereignty, and free-market competitiveness,” Republican Majority Whip Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota said in a statement.
However, House leadership had hit unexpected hurdles midweek while trying to advance the three crypto bills, with the first procedural votes on July 16 breaking a record for the chamber by lasting about nine hours.
One measure barring the Federal Reserve from creating a central bank for cryptocurrency was a particular sticking point, with Republicans debating how to best set the bill up to succeed in a future Senate vote. It passed the lower chamber on July 17 entirely with GOP support in a 219-210 vote that fell along party lines.
The Clarity Act, which defines when a cryptocurrency is a security or a commodity and clarifies the Securities and Exchange Commission’s jurisdiction over the entire financial sector, also passed the House on July 17 and must head to the Senate.
Senate Democrats have voiced concerns about Trump’s connections to the cryptocurrency industry.
“The GENIUS Act will accelerate Trump’s corruption by supercharging the size of the stablecoin market and the reach and profitability of USD1,” said Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, on the Senate floor in May.
One of the biggest money-making ventures for Trump was World Liberty Financial, a cryptocurrency platform launched last year. It brought in $57.3 million and it launched USD1, a U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin.
Trump also held a dinner in May for the top purchasers of the $TRUMP meme coin, owned by an affiliate of The Trump Organization.
However, supporters of the bill maintained that it could help safeguard investors and help Americans have greater access to the financial system.
“The golden age of digital assets is here, and the U.S. will lead,” said Wisconsin Rep. Bryan Steil in a statement.
Contributing: Riley Beggin, Medora Lee and Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY
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