{"id":12218,"date":"2022-03-30T02:34:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T02:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=12218"},"modified":"2022-03-30T02:34:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T02:34:46","slug":"robinhood-crypto-lead-christine-brown-leaving-to-start-crypto-venture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=12218","title":{"rendered":"Robinhood Crypto Lead Christine Brown Leaving to Start Crypto Venture"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Robinhood Crypto COO Christine Brown\u2014the top executive within the Stock trading app’s crypto subsidiary\u2014is leaving the company.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a Twitter thread today, she expressed thanks for her time at the company. Brown confirmed to Decrypt<\/i> she will be starting her own crypto venture.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I joined [Robinhood] when it was under 100 people\u2014before we even offered a crypto product,” she tweeted. “Watching us grow through IPO and serving more than 22m users has been the greatest professional experience of my life.<\/span><\/p>\n

Brown has been with Robinhood since 2017 and in April 2021 transitioned from VP of Product Operations into Robinhood Crypto COO\u2014the company’s first.<\/span><\/p>\n

Brown’s tenure has been marked by the pursuit of a dedicated crypto wallet. Robinhood users can buy and sell seven different cryptocurrencies\u2014Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin SV, Dogecoin, Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, and Litecoin\u2014but they can’t send them to a private wallet. In other words, the company holds users’ crypto for them so they’re unable to port it elsewhere to, say, trade on decentralized exchanges or buy NFTs.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The company announced a beta release of the wallet in January 2022. It says it currently has 250,000 wallet users.<\/span><\/p>\n

Robinhood COO Gretchen Howard said in a statement, \u201cWe\u2019re so grateful to Christine for her contributions to Robinhood over the past five years – from leading our self-clearing initiative to scaling the Robinhood Crypto team. We\u2019re excited to follow her entrepreneurial journey going forward.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Editor’s Note: This post has been updated to include confirmation from Brown about her new role. The number of wallet users has also been added.<\/i><\/p>\n

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