The Robinhood emblem is seen displayed on a smartphone display towards a pc display displaying inventory market graphs on Oct. 10, 2024.
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The Securities and Alternate Fee is dropping its investigation into Robinhood’s crypto arm, the corporate revealed Monday.
Robinhood mentioned it acquired a letter from the SEC’s Enforcement Division Friday, detailing in a blog post that the company has closed its investigation into the crypto enterprise with no intention of shifting ahead with an enforcement motion. The information comes three days after Coinbase similarly announced that the SEC has agreed to finish its enforcement case towards it.
Shares rose greater than 3% in premarket buying and selling.
In Might 2024, Robinhood acquired a discover warning that it might be charged for potential violation of securities regulation inside its crypto unit after beforehand being subpoenaed for its cryptocurrency listings, custody and platform operations – regardless of “years of excellent religion makes an attempt to work with the SEC for regulatory readability together with our well-known try to ‘are available in and register,'” Dan Gallagher, the corporate’s chief authorized, compliance and company affairs officer, said at the time.
“Robinhood Crypto at all times has and can at all times respect federal securities legal guidelines and by no means allowed transactions in securities,” he mentioned in a press release Monday. “We recognize the formal closing of this investigation, and we’re joyful to see a return to the rule of regulation and dedication to equity on the SEC.”
The SEC didn’t reply to a request for remark.
The SEC’s dismissal of the Robinhood and Coinbase instances is an early signal of the regulatory sea change for the crypto business promised by President Donald Trump throughout his election marketing campaign. Regardless of the meteoric rise of the worth of bitcoin below the earlier administration, many crypto companies noticed it as low level because of the SEC’s infamous regulation-by-enforcement method to crypto – versus the creation of clear guidelines by which to function – below the management of then chair Gary Gensler.
Practically half of Robinhood’s $672 million transaction-based income within the fourth quarter got here from a 700% rise in revenue tied to crypto trading, as bitcoin rallied towards $100,000 for the first time ever on hopes of extra favorable insurance policies below Trump.
Shares have gained 38% thus far in 2025.
