Vlad Tenev says Robinhood's global tokenization effort aims to connect people outside the United States, including those in more than 120 countries who may lack functional banking systems, to the broader economy.

“Tokenization, you can think of as ownership gone global. Like, how can we make all the people outside the US, people in a hundred and twenty-plus countries that don't sometimes even have functional banking systems, how can we kind of plug them into this economic fabric of society?”