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Robinhood has wrapped up its $200 million acquisition of Bitstamp, bringing one of the world’s longest-running crypto exchanges under its umbrella.
First announced in June 2024, the deal officially closed in the first half of 2025 after meeting regulatory conditions. With Bitstamp now part of the company,
Robinhood is broadening its crypto business across Europe, the U.K., Asia, and beyond, while gaining access to an institutional trading client base for the first time.
Bitstamp Institutional capabilities meet Robinhood retail scale
Bitstamp was founded in 2011 as a European response to Mt. Gox and has built a presence across over 50 jurisdictions with licenses and registrations.
It currently supports more than 85 crypto assets and has built a reputation for strong execution, API infrastructure, staking, and lending services.
According to Robinhood, these features now plug into its existing platform to enable continuous trading and broader market access.
Vlad Tenev, Robinhood's co-founder and CEO, shared the news on X, saying, “Our work is just beginning.”
Robinhood Crypto General Manager Johann Kerbrat added that the merger is designed to combine Bitstamp’s institutional expertise with Robinhood’s retail-first reach, offering users deep liquidity and 24/7 access.
Bitstamp will maintain its brand identity for now, with the updated title “Bitstamp by Robinhood.”
Strategic growth and rising M&A activity
Bitstamp’s team is joining Robinhood as part of the agreement, setting the stage for closer collaboration across crypto infrastructure and operations.
The move is part of a broader strategy for Robinhood, which plans to build a global financial ecosystem spanning equities, stablecoins, tokenized assets, and prediction markets, all built using blockchain rails.
This deal follows Robinhood’s recent move to acquire Canadian exchange WonderFi in a $179 million all-cash deal. Industry-wide, crypto mergers and acquisitions are accelerating, driven by improved U.S. regulatory clarity, market consolidation, and infrastructure scale-ups.
Other recent deals include Coinbase’s $2.9 billion purchase of Deribit and Kraken’s $1.5 billion acquisition of NinjaTrader.
Financial advisors for the Robinhood–Bitstamp deal included Barclays Capital Inc. for Robinhood and Galaxy Digital Partners LLC for Bitstamp. As Robinhood continues expanding beyond U.S. borders, its crypto ambitions appear to be taking a much more global shape.
