Robinhood Executive says stock tokens are backed by real shares and custodied by the platform
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Robinhood The executive said its stock tokens correspond to real shares, which are purchased and custodied by Robinhood Robinhood.
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Robinhood Executive discusses the stock token mechanism: users hold tokens, while Robinhood Robinhood custodies the underlying shares
PANews October 1 reported, citing Cointelegraph, that Robinhood Johann Kerbrat, Head of Crypto at Robinhood, stated during Korea Blockchain Week (Korea Blockchain Week 2026) that the stock tokens users trade on Robinhood Robinhood correspond to real equity assets rather than derivatives based solely on price movements. For its stock token products, Robinhood Robinhood actually purchases the corresponding companies' shares and holds them in custody.
PANews said the news was reported by Cointelegraph.
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Robinhood Johann Kerbrat, Head of Crypto, stated during Korea Blockchain Week (Korea Blockchain Week 2026) that the stock tokens traded by users are backed by real equity assets.
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Johann Kerbrat said that these stock tokens are not derivatives based solely on price movements.
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Johann Kerbrat said that Robinhood Robinhood will purchase the corresponding companies' shares and hold them in custody.
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According to the executive, users hold and trade stock tokens, while Robinhood Robinhood purchases and safeguards the actual shares of the relevant companies in the background. In other words, the tokens are described as being backed by underlying shares rather than merely tracking changes in share prices.
Why it matters to readers
Whether the underlying shares genuinely exist and are properly custodied is important information for understanding the asset basis of stock tokens and affects how users assess product risk.
Beginners should not automatically equate stock tokens with directly holding shares. The available materials only describe the executive's stated asset-backing arrangement and do not specify what shareholder rights or redemption arrangements token holders have.
Risks and unknowns
The available material is PANews' retelling of a Cointelegraph report and does not provide the executive's original remarks or Robinhood official documentation.
It does not specify the ratio between each token and the shares, or whether full backing is maintained at all times.
It does not specify which entity or custodian holds the shares.
It does not specify the treatment of redemption, asset segregation, dividends, voting rights, or insolvency.
It does not specify the jurisdictions in which the product is available or the related regulatory arrangements.
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