A big bet on the future: How Robinhood and Coinbase are competing for a $160 billion financial landscape.

[Plain Language Introduction] Robinhood and Coinbase, two major financial applications, each with a market capitalization of approximately $80 billion, are conducting distinctly different experiments aimed at young investors.

Robinhood pursues a simple and intuitive financial experience, offering low-fee crypto trading and tokenized stocks, aiming to capture the next generation of wealth. Coinbase, on the other hand, focuses on blockchain infrastructure, serving institutions and the crypto ecosystem, providing over 260 cryptocurrencies, betting on the future of finance on-chain. Robinhood's Q2 revenue surged by 45%, with crypto revenue doubling; although Coinbase's revenue declined, institutional custody assets reached $245.7 billion.

The two are not direct competitors, but rather are positioning themselves for different financial futures: Robinhood simplifies finance, while Coinbase builds a crypto architecture to meet the increasingly diverse needs of users.

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