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Johann Kerbrat discusses the dominance of memecoins on Robinhood Chain and its implications for real-world assets.

Two weeks after launch, 85% of Robinhood Chain's trading is memecoins and just 1% is RWAs. Johann Kerbrat says that doesn’t change the strategy. ======================================================== Thank you to our sponsor! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Cape⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: Your biggest crypto vulnerability isn't your wallet, it's your phone number. Cape is America's privacy-first mobile carrier that rotates your SIM identity daily and blocks SIM swaps before they happen. Get 33% off your first six months at cape.co/unchained (use code: UNCHAINED). ======================================================== Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev told CNBC on July 2 that real-world assets, not memecoins, were the future of crypto on Robinhood Chain. Two weeks after launch, the numbers disagree: roughly 85% of daily trading on the chain is memecoins, while tokenized RWAs sit at about 1%. Johann Kerbrat, Vice President and General Manager of Robinhood Crypto, joins Laura Shin to argue the split is not a problem. He makes the case that building the chain permissionless was deliberate, and that memecoin trading through CashCat and PumpFun brings the liquidity RWAs will eventually need. Kerbrat also defends…

People in this episode

Host: Laura Shin

Guest: Johann Kerbrat

Topics covered

• memecoins
• real world assets
• crypto trading
• Robinhood Chain
• liquidity
• crypto revenue

Keywords

• Robinhood Chain
• memecoins
• real world assets
• Johann Kerbrat
• crypto trading
• liquidity
• USDG
• crypto revenue

Sponsors

Cape

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Robinhood, CNBC, Robinhood Crypto

Products: CashCat, PumpFun, USDG, USDC, Tether, perps product

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