Vlad Tenev
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You're putting your coins at stake for the benefit of the network.
So there's a nice sort of like a kumbaya aspect to it.
We were adding new services all the time.
We're the initial broker and trustee, sole broker and trustee for the Trump accounts, which we announced a couple of weeks ago.
So basically this is a new initiative where every newborn in the country gets $1,000 in a brokerage account so that they can start investing from birth.
It's a government gift.
Yeah, government gift.
And then some private donors like Michael Dell and Brad Gerstner, who came up with the concept a couple of years ago, they're funding it for certain subsets.
Like a lot of people are funding newborns in their state or in their hometown.
So there's a lot of philanthropy.
And then we're building a really nice gifting flow so that if you're a grandparent or other family member, or you wanna send out a link for birthdays, you can get people to fund these accounts.
And I think that's a really cool initiative.
Our first stint as a government subcontractor, but really opportunity to get in front of customers from age zero, which would be pretty cool.
Robinhood Banking has been,
Going really well.
We launched that a couple months ago.
That's been growing prediction markets.
I mentioned that's the fastest growing business in our history We launched that a little bit over a year ago about your thinking about prediction markets.
How do they impact our world?