What it is: Robinhood’s third annual retail-trader conference, September 29-30. The program is dominated by active-trading content: index and 0DTE options with Cboe, prediction markets across the NFL and 2026 midterms, and ETFs with State Street and BlackRock.

On paper, crypto is thin on the agenda. One panel, “TradFi Meets DeFi: Fact vs Fiction,” pairs Robinhood Crypto and Bitstamp leads with Bankless co-founder David Hoffman, and touches on tokenization and settlement. A VanEck session covers bitcoin mining and the AI-energy trade.

The wildcard is Vlad. He headlines the Day 1 keynote in a couple of hours, “Engines of Creation,” billed around new trading technology. The billing points at trading tools, not crypto, so nothing guarantees a tokenization or chain mention. But he has been