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🧠 Where Robinhood's 7% yield comes from

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By Simon Taylor
| Fintech Brainfood
Live in Greenwich, London, at the National Maritime Museum. Vlad Tenev, wearing a swanky pirate-like outfit, took the stage to announce Robinhood Earn, a 7% APY DeFi yield product. Stock Tokens in 120+ countries, trading 24/7 and usable as collateral in DeFi lending pools. And commodity, ETF, and FX perpetual futures in Europe (gold, oil, EUR/USD) at up to 10x leverage 🧠 The 7% earn product is fascinating. Where does the yield come from?
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🧠 The Coin Nobody Owns

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By Simon Taylor
| Fintech Brainfood
Circle and Tether are undefeated. Competitors like Paxos and the USDG consortium (by Robinhood, Kraken, and Galaxy) tried to compete by offering shared yield and more partners. Circle weathered the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, Silvergate, and Signature; Tether has had active runs on it. And yet here they are. Two for-profit businesses have beaten every challenger, consortium, and market event. Today, 140 companies agreed to share a coin. But they're not trying to defeat the stablecoin champions.
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šŸ§  Prediction Markets: Mainstream Path | Fintech Brainfood

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By Simon Taylor
| Fintech Brainfood
Hey Fintech Nerds šŸ‘‹, Zurich was super interesting. European regulators are suddenly much more open minded about stablecoins, almost a full 180 from a year ago when GENIUS passed. The rise of bank stablecoin initiatives like Qivalis have really helped here. Iā€™m en route back to London, and thereā€™s so much news. Prediction markets keep being drama, from the CFTC suing Kentucky, to alleged misleading ads by Polymarket, and even Meta getting in on the act.
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