The crypto-platform for trading Robinhood is preparing for an IPO, Linkedin has published a list of the most popular startups in the US, and Coinbase expects a great future. Robinhood and IPO
Startup Robinhood has gained great popularity due to zero trading fees, looking for a CFO who can help the company in conducting the initial public offering (IPO).
CEO Baiju Bhatt said that his company is "actively looking for a CFO, because the future plans is an IPO". He explained at the Techcruch event that: "I think becoming a public company is combined with our mission. And it's definitely on the horizon, not in the near future, but we're thinking about it."
Crypto startups are flourishing in the United States
Linkedin's network of professional contacts has published a list of "Top Startups 2018", in which a large number of crypto-companies among the 50 most popular startups from the United States. Coinbase is on the third place, Robinhood - sixth,. seventh, Gemini Trust number 25, Consensys - 26 points and Axoni occupied 47-e a place.
Chief editor Daniel Roth explained the methodology:
We wanted to give professionals the opportunity to look at young companies that have grown rapidly in their industry. As always, we started with data - billions of actions created by 575 million Linkedin members - and looked at the growth in the number of employees; job seekers ' interest; interactions with The company and its employees. In other words, the selected startups attract the attention of the best specialists. To be eligible for Top Startups, a company must be under 7 years of age, have at least 50 employees, own private property, and have a U.S. headquarters.
Coinbase's great aspirations 
According to the expectations of one of the largest us crypto exchanges, over the next five years, a billion people will enter the crypto-sphere, and Coinbase can list hundreds of tokens during these years, potentially making the company larger than the new York stock exchange (NYSE).
That's according to CEO Brian Armstrong.:
It makes sense that any company that has capitalization has launched its own token. Every open source project, potentially every Foundation or these new types of decentralized organizations and applications, will all have their own tokens. We want to be a bridge between people who want to buy cryptocurrency for cash.Link to information resource - https://altstake.io/news/novosti-dnya-robinhood-gotovitsya-k-ipo