HOOD – Robinhood Markets, Inc.

Last week, Robinhood unveiled Robinhood Social, a feature designed to transform trading from an individual activity to a social experience.5 Launching next year, the platform will enable users to share verified trades, follow peers, and track performance transparently, aiming to build a financial community that gathers momentum with increased participation.
Here is what we know, thus far:

• Verified Trades + Performance Stats: Users will be able to share their trades—across stocks, crypto, options, event contracts and more—real-time entry/exit points, profit & loss, and overall performance.
• Public Figures + Trend Tracking: Investors will see the trades that hedge funds, politicians, and other public figures make. Robinhood will host a curated feed that ranks trending trades and makes recommendations based on activity.
• Controlled Rollout: A beta version will launch in the first quarter of 2026, with broader access to follow.

In our view, this move will reposition Robinhood from brokerage company to a platform with network effects. Surfacing trades from peers, influencers, and other public figures, Robinhood will lower friction in the discovery process and enable benchmarking in real time. Indeed, far beyond “social media + stocks,” Robinhood Social is likely to create a new vector of transparency and community in retail investing. As users watch trading activity, investing discussions should add more signal than noise, deepen engagement, and differentiate the Robinhood platform.​