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Robinhood Crypto Trading Volume Rallies 61% in August
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Robinhood's notional crypto trading volume—the total dollar value of all crypto assets bought and sold on the platform—rose 61% in August to $17.5 billion, according to operating data the company released Thursday.
Key facts
- The Robinhood app handled $7.4 billion of that volume, up 72% from July but down 46% from a year ago
- Bitstamp, the exchange Robinhood bought in 2025, contributed the larger share at $10.1 billion, up 53% month over month
- That's down 23% from July, but up roughly 15-fold from the 300 million contracts traded in August 2025
- Margin loans—money Robinhood lends customers to trade with borrowed cash—climbed to $21.5 billion, up 72% from a year ago
Summary
Robinhood's crypto trading volume rose 61% month over month to $17.5 billion in August, according to new operating data. Event contracts, Robinhood's prediction market bets, traded 4.7 billion times in August, roughly 15 times the volume from a year earlier, even as Congress moves to rein in the products. The rebound followed a slow July, when volume sat at $10.9 billion. The Robinhood app handled $7.4 billion of that volume, up 72% from July but down 46% from a year ago.