Brokerage company RobinHood began testing a cryptocurrency wallet in its mobile application. The new feature will simplify sending and receiving digital money for users of the service, writes Bloomberg.
In the beta version of the RobinHooD application for iPhone launched a list of expectations for users who want to subscribe to the use of cryptococheries. Thanks to this feature, customers will be able to use digital currency without having to convert them into dollars. Cryptokochelek is also a single storage for all virtual currencies of the user protected by a private key. Although account owners in the RobinHood application can already buy and sell popular cryptocurrency, such Bitcoin, Ethereum and Dogecoin, the ability to manage all their assets through their wallet will appear for the first time. To send and receive digital money through the RobinHood service, users will need to check the personality.
For several years, RobinHood has gained popularity due to the fact that it does not charge the Commission from customers for the transaction. However, at the beginning of the year, the company became a member of the scandal with Gamestop shares. Members of the social network Reddit wanted to “teach” major hedge funds and began to massively buy stock shares. Then RobinHood has suspended the opportunity to trade Gamestop securities than caused mass discontent – up to lawsuits.
Shares of the company jumped 2.1 percent to $ 41.54 after Bloomberg reported testing a new function on September 20. Since the initial public offering of shares in July, stocks rose 7.1 percent. However, the idea of Robinhood is not new – popular Coinbase and Gemini cryptocurrency exchanges already offer their own cryptococheries.
At the same time, the pressure on the participants of the digital money market from financial regulators increases in the USA. Recently, a group of activists representing the interests of investors called on the Securities and Exchange Commission to strengthen control over cryptocurrency projects, believing that many of them violate the rules for the protection of depositors.