Robinhood’s Crypto Head Johann Kerbrat on Why Public Blockchains Will Win

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The Defiant Explainers • February 11, 2026 at 14:21 • DeFi
Robinhood is opening the testnet for its Arbitrum-based Ethereum Layer 2. In this episode, we sit down with the fintech’s head of crypto, Johann Kerbrat, to discuss the strategic move to build on Ethereum. He believes institutions can get the privacy and compliance guarantees they need on public chains like Ethereum, so building on private chains doesn’t make sense as they are just a “fancy database.”...

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