Robinhood CEO Calls for Tokenized Stocks to Prevent Another “GameStop Freeze”
Yahoo Finance·2026-01-28 18:32

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev is calling for increased regulatory clarity and a renewed push for tokenized stocks as a means to prevent another “GameStop freeze.” Tenev posted a lengthy statement on Twitter on Jan. 28 discussing the root causes of the event on its anniversary. “Five years ago today,” he wrote, “Robinhood and other brokers were forced to halt buying of several meme stocks, most memorably GameStop, in one of the strangest and most visible equity market failures in recent history.” As Coinspeaker ...