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Robinhood's Crypto Customers Can Now Trade Aave and Tezos

The popular trading app now offers 19 crypto assets.

Updated Oct 24, 2022, 9:30 p.m. Published Oct 24, 2022, 2:35 p.m.
Traders can now buy and sell AAVE and XTZ on Robinhood's app. (Unsplash)
Traders can now buy and sell AAVE and XTZ on Robinhood's app. (Unsplash)

Trading app Robinhood Markets (HOOD) has added support for cryptocurrencies aave (AAVE) and tezos (XTZ) to its platform, the company announced on Twitter on Monday.

  • The native crypto currency of decentralized lending platform Aave, AAVE, has gained 7% over the past 24 hours and is up 18% in October. The token is down 75% over the past year.
  • XTZ was little changed on Monday and is down modestly this month. It has also dropped roughly 75% over the past year. An open-source smart contract platform used to issue new digital assets and create decentralized applications (dapps), Tezos recently announced a partnership with Shopify.
  • Robinhood now offers 19 crypto tokens for trading on its app, including bitcoin (BTC), ether (ETH), Solana's SOL and Polkadot's DOT.

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Pudgy Penguins is building a multi-vertical consumer IP platform — combining phygital products, games, NFTs and PENGU to monetize culture at scale.

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Pudgy Penguins is emerging as one of the strongest NFT-native brands of this cycle, shifting from speculative “digital luxury goods” into a multi-vertical consumer IP platform. Its strategy is to acquire users through mainstream channels first; toys, retail partnerships and viral media, then onboard them into Web3 through games, NFTs and the PENGU token.

The ecosystem now spans phygital products (> $13M retail sales and >1M units sold), games and experiences (Pudgy Party surpassed 500k downloads in two weeks), and a widely distributed token (airdropped to 6M+ wallets). While the market is currently pricing Pudgy at a premium relative to traditional IP peers, sustained success depends on execution across retail expansion, gaming adoption and deeper token utility.

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The president said he isn't concerned about the dollar's recent declines, sending the greenback plunging even lower.

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  • Bitcoin rallied above $89,000 as remarks by President Trump sent the dollar to its lowest level in nearly four years.
  • Gold rose to a new record above $5,200 per ounce following the president's comments.
  • One analyst is seeing a bullish technical divergence which could send bitcoin back to $95,000 in short order.