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Robinhood's CEO had his X account hacked to launch a meme coin, eleven days after he called memecoins "a dead end"
On July 23, 2026, attackers took over Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev's X account and posted a message presenting the Vladhood ($VLAD) token as the "official mascot" of Robinhood Chain, falsely promising it would be listed in the app. The post racked up more than 175,000 views in 20 minutes before being deleted, and the attackers pocketed around 650 ETH, between $1.2 and $1.3 million. On July 2, Tenev had told CNBC that memecoins were mostly "a dead end," assets with no real utility; six days later he was posting on social media that his own blockchain "works great for memes too," after watching a trader turn $800 into over a million dollars with the CASHCAT token.
The episode stands out because it happened just eleven days after Tenev himself called memecoins a "dead end" on television, and only days after he'd bragged about how well his own blockchain handled that exact kind of asset. The irony wasn't lost on social media, where plenty of users pointed out that not even his own account was taking him seriously.
Source: CoinDesk →Not even his own account was listening to him anymore.