Robinhood Opens Social Trading Feed to Eligible US Customers

Robinhood's social feed matters less as a community feature than as a distribution and retention play: shared charts and allocations turn the app into a discovery surface, and the planned Legend desktop rollout signals the company wants that engagement on larger screens, where more deliberate trading decisions happen. The obvious tension is that copyable portfolios invite herding and performance-chasing, the same dynamics regulators have scrutinized in social investing elsewhere. Whether the feed becomes a genuine engagement driver or a compliance headache is the open question.