Adam Aron, CEO of AMC Entertainment, discovered that his company’s stock was suddenly being traded as tokens on Robinhood Chain. The issue is that AMC was never consulted, let alone granted approval for the move.
Taking to his personal X account, Aron vented his fury and intentionally established a public legal record. He condemned Robinhood’s actions with a string of sharp words: “contemptible, outrageous, disgusting, detestable, inexcusable, vile.”
It turns out AMC is not alone. Over 190 public companies have had their stock tokenized and traded on Robinhood Chain. Not a single one of these hundreds of companies received formal notice from Robinhood regarding the minting of their stock tokens.
Robinhood Chain itself was recently launched on July 1, 2026, utilizing Arbitrum Orbit Layer 2 (L2) technology. Within weeks, the network generated $47 billion in cumulative decentralized exchange (DEX) trading volume, with daily revenues reaching $4.01 million.
Not Real Stock, Just Synthetic Exposure
The tokens issued by Robinhood are not traditional shares. These instruments are tokenized debt securities - buyers receive no voting rights, equity ownership, or legal protection from US capital market regulators. The structure resembles a Contract for Difference (CFD), where investors purely buy synthetic price exposure without holding the underlying asset.
The token issuance is operated by an entity named Robinhood Assets (Jersey) Limited, incorporated in the Channel Islands (Jersey). This offshore jurisdiction was deliberately chosen as it lies outside the jurisdiction of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
This offshore route presents an irony for a platform that frequently champions the democratization of investing. Because they are issued outside the US, these tokens are completely inaccessible to US-based investors.
Avoiding Millions in Compliance Costs
For Aron, this unilateral practice poses an existential threat to AMC and other affected issuers. Robinhood freely mirrors the economic exposure of public equities to attract capital inflows, yet avoids paying the millions of dollars in compliance costs that underlying public companies are required to submit to the SEC.
Aron is refusing to remain silent and has threatened to take the issue directly to the SEC. This clash between traditional issuers and crypto platforms raises a fundamental question about the trajectory of Web3 adoption: who has the right to profit when a stock is tokenized without any authorization from the company?
Reported via crypto.news.
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