Stock Trading App Public to Add Bitcoin, Ether and Dogecoin
The commission-free trading platform will soon allow its users buy and sell 10 cryptocurrencies.
Oct 7, 2021 at 3:39 p.m. UTCUpdated May 11, 2023 at 4:11 p.m. UTC
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Public, a commission free stock-trading app similar to Robinhood, will allow its users to buy and sell cryptocurrency in the coming weeks.
- The company said Thursday users will be able to trade 10 cryptocurrencies to start: bitcoin, bitcoin cash, ether, ethereum classic, litecoin, dash, stellar, cardano, zcash and dogecoin.
- Public’s customers in New York will not be immediately able to trade crypto because the company doesn’t have a state BitLicense, Public said. The firm is working on getting one, however, and says it is optimistic crypto will be available to New York residents “soon.”
- The back-end operations of Public’s new crypto offerings will be managed by Apex Crypto.
- Public joins the likes of Square and Robinhood in offering cryptocurrency trading on its platform.
- The company says it is working towards offering its own crypto wallet in the future.
- Public said it passed the million user mark last February and has raised $310 million from investors.
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Eli was a news reporter for CoinDesk. He holds ETH, SOL and AVAX.