Robinhood Listing Alert

Detect new Robinhood crypto listings the instant they happen — first when an asset is added to Robinhood assets, then when it becomes tradable. Two structured events per listing, pushed over WebSocket from a dedicated US endpoint.

Why Robinhood crypto listings move markets

Robinhood is the largest retail brokerage app in the United States, and its crypto section puts one-tap buying in front of millions of US investors who do not use offshore exchanges. When a token becomes tradable on Robinhood, a large pool of buyers who previously had no easy way to purchase it suddenly can — and that demand shows up on Binance, Bybit and Bitget order books, where the token was already trading.

What makes Robinhood different from every other publisher we cover is the two-step listing. An asset is first added to Robinhood assets — visible to Robinhood Wallet users and displayed in the app — and only later becomes tradable, often days and sometimes weeks afterwards. That gap is an anticipation window: a bot that sees the wallet listing can prepare a position on another venue before the tradable event turns US retail demand loose. Announcement-based sources do not have this window, because Robinhood does not publish a listing notice ahead of time.

Two Robinhood events: wallet listing, then tradable

Each Robinhood listing produces two messages with the same ticker and the same JSON envelope, distinguished by the listingType field:

• wallet_listing — added to Robinhood assets. The asset is now part of Robinhood assets and visible in the app, but cannot yet be bought or sold on Robinhood. This is the early signal.
• cex_listing — tradable on Robinhood. Trading is open: the effective, live listing. This is the event that exposes the token to US retail order flow.

The early signal, as it arrives on the wire:

{
  "type": "announcement",
  "publisher": "robinhood",
  "listingType": "wallet_listing",
  "ticker": "PONS",
  "title": "Robinhood: PONS (Pons to US Dollar) — added to Robinhood assets",
  "detectedTimestampUs": 1757570000123456,
  "dispatchTimestampUs": 1757570000123999,
  "abnormalDetectionLatency": false
}

Then, when trading opens on Robinhood — same ticker, new listingType, title ending in tradable on Robinhood:

{
  "type": "announcement",
  "publisher": "robinhood",
  "listingType": "cex_listing",
  "ticker": "PONS",
  "title": "Robinhood: PONS (Pons to US Dollar) — tradable on Robinhood",
  "detectedTimestampUs": 1757829200456789,
  "dispatchTimestampUs": 1757829200457301,
  "abnormalDetectionLatency": false
}

Robinhood message format

The envelope is identical to every other publisher on CryptoListing.ws, so a handler written for Binance or Upbit parses Robinhood messages unchanged. type is always announcement; publisher is robinhood; listingType is wallet_listing or cex_listing; ticker is the asset symbol; title is a human-readable line that ends in added to Robinhood assets or tradable on Robinhood. detectedTimestampUs and dispatchTimestampUs are microsecond Unix timestamps, and abnormalDetectionLatency flags a message our own monitoring considers late, so you can gate automated actions on it. Field semantics are documented in the documentation.

How to get Robinhood listing alerts

Connect to the US endpoint with your API key in the X-API-Key header. The ?cex=robinhood filter is accepted and optional there — the US endpoint carries Robinhood only — and branching on listingType separates the early signal from the live listing:

# Robinhood listings (US endpoint)
import json, websocket

def on_message(ws, msg):
    data = json.loads(msg)
    if data["type"] != "announcement":
        return
    if data["listingType"] == "wallet_listing":
        print(f"ROBINHOOD WALLET LISTING: {data['ticker']}")  # early signal
    elif data["listingType"] == "cex_listing":
        print(f"ROBINHOOD TRADABLE: {data['ticker']}")        # trading is live
        # Execute your trade here

websocket.WebSocketApp(
    "wss://us.cryptolisting.ws?cex=robinhood",
    header=["X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY"],
    on_message=on_message,
).run_forever()

The US endpoint — and where it sits next to Tokyo and Seoul

Robinhood is dispatched from a third AWS region. The same API key works on all three endpoints, and each endpoint carries its own set of publishers — there is no overlap for Robinhood:

• N. Virginia — wss://us.cryptolisting.ws — Robinhood only, hosted in AWS us-east-1. Best if your bot lives in the eastern United States. ?cex=robinhood is accepted but optional here.
• Tokyo — wss://cryptolisting.ws — Binance, Upbit, Bithumb. Does not carry Robinhood.
• Seoul — wss://kr.cryptolisting.ws — Upbit, Bithumb. Does not carry Robinhood.

A single bot can hold one long-lived WebSocket per endpoint. If your bot already runs in Tokyo or Seoul for the Asian exchanges, keep it there and simply add a connection to the US endpoint:

# One bot, three regions — same key on every endpoint
"wss://cryptolisting.ws?cex=binance,upbit,bithumb"   # Tokyo
"wss://kr.cryptolisting.ws?cex=upbit,bithumb"        # Seoul
"wss://us.cryptolisting.ws?cex=robinhood"            # N. Virginia

Robinhood listing detection speed

We monitor Robinhood continuously, 24 hours a day. The moment an asset is added to Robinhood assets we push the wallet_listing event to every connected subscriber, and the moment it becomes tradable we push the cex_listing event — structured, deduplicated, within milliseconds. Robinhood offers an account-oriented crypto trading API; it does not announce new listings, so there is no official notice to subscribe to. Telegram channels and social feeds relay a Robinhood listing after someone has spotted it in the app; a WebSocket push removes the human from the loop.

Our edge comes from the same purpose-built low-latency infrastructure that serves the Binance and Korean feeds — optimized at every layer, no unnecessary overhead — now deployed in the US region closest to Robinhood's users. The free SpeedTrial tier lets you measure real end-to-end timing from your own infrastructure.

Robinhood vs Binance listing announcements

Both events move prices, but they are shaped differently. Binance listing announcements are formal notices published ahead of trading, on a globally accessible exchange — the market reacts to the notice itself. Robinhood listings have no public notice: the first observable fact is the wallet listing, the second is trading going live, and the buyers unlocked by that second step are US retail investors who mostly trade nowhere else. The wallet listing therefore plays the role the announcement plays on Binance, with one difference — the delay before trading opens is variable, so bots typically size their entry on the wallet listing and add on the tradable event.

Multi-exchange monitoring

You don't have to choose. The publisher field tells your bot which exchange each message came from, so one handler can serve Robinhood and Binance together. Because Robinhood lives on its own endpoint, combining them means two connections rather than one filter:

"wss://cryptolisting.ws?cex=binance"     # Tokyo — Binance
"wss://us.cryptolisting.ws?cex=robinhood" # N. Virginia — Robinhood

On the Tokyo endpoint, leave the cex parameter empty to receive listing announcements from all monitored Asian exchanges (Binance, Upbit, Bithumb). Subscribing to two or more exchanges unlocks bundle pricing. See the full API reference for details.

Robinhood listing WebSocket API

Developer guide: Robinhood WebSocket for listing announcements · background: two events, one trading window.

Stream Robinhood crypto listings over our real-time WebSocket API. Each wallet listing and each tradable event arrives as structured JSON with microsecond timestamps, ready for your bot — the same schema as Binance, Upbit and Bithumb, from a dedicated endpoint in AWS N. Virginia.

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between wallet_listing and cex_listing on Robinhood?

wallet_listing means the asset has been added to Robinhood assets: it is visible to Robinhood Wallet users and shown in the app, but it cannot yet be bought or sold on Robinhood. cex_listing means the asset is now tradable on Robinhood — the effective, live listing. The wallet listing typically arrives days, sometimes weeks, before the tradable event, which makes it the early signal. Both events share the same JSON envelope and the same ticker, so a bot can pair them.

Do the Tokyo or Seoul endpoints carry Robinhood announcements?

No. Robinhood is served only by the US endpoint, wss://us.cryptolisting.ws, hosted in AWS N. Virginia (us-east-1). The Tokyo endpoint (wss://cryptolisting.ws) carries Binance, Upbit and Bithumb; the Seoul endpoint (wss://kr.cryptolisting.ws) carries Upbit and Bithumb. Your existing API key works on all three, so add a second connection to the US endpoint rather than changing your Tokyo or Seoul filters.

How much do Robinhood listing alerts cost?

Robinhood is priced like Upbit: Basic is 400 USDT per month and Premium is 750 USDT per month. Two free tiers exist — SpeedTrial (redacted payload with a small added delay, for benchmarking) and FreeDelayed (the full feed, delivered with a fixed delay). Bundles lower the monthly price: 2 exchanges −50 USDT on Basic / −100 on Premium, 3 exchanges −100 / −150, and all 4 exchanges on Premium for 1900 USDT per month. Prepaying 3, 6 or 12 months saves 15%, 22.5% or 30%; bundle and duration discounts do not stack. Full details on the pricing page.

Can I combine Robinhood and Binance alerts?

Yes. Open one WebSocket to the Tokyo endpoint with ?cex=binance and a second one to the US endpoint with ?cex=robinhood, using the same API key on both. Every message carries a publisher field (binance or robinhood) and the same schema, so one handler routes both streams to the right venue. Bundle pricing applies as soon as you subscribe to two or more exchanges.

Why do Robinhood crypto listings matter for traders?

Robinhood gives millions of US retail investors one-tap access to crypto. When an asset becomes tradable on Robinhood, a large pool of US buyers who could not easily buy it before suddenly can, and that demand can move the price on other venues. Because the wallet_listing event arrives before trading opens, a bot can prepare ahead of the tradable event instead of reacting after it — an anticipation window that announcement-based sources do not offer.

Where should I host my bot for the Robinhood feed?

The Robinhood feed is dispatched from AWS N. Virginia (us-east-1). Hosting your bot in the same region minimises the network hop from our dispatcher to your client. If your bot already runs in Tokyo or Seoul for the Asian exchanges, keep it there and open an extra connection to wss://us.cryptolisting.ws — one long-lived WebSocket per endpoint is the recommended setup. The free SpeedTrial tier lets you measure end-to-end timing from your own infrastructure before choosing a plan.