The "King of Retail" in the US stock market, Robinhood, has recently been frequently listing crypto assets.

First, it listed $BNB and $ASTER from the Binance ecosystem.

Then it listed $VIRTUALS and $XPL, one being a leader in AI and the other in RWA.

Considering its coin selection logic, I found several patterns:

Liquidity First

The selected assets are all relatively mature with a certain trading depth, avoiding small-cap coins.

Only Choosing Leaders in Popular Tracks

$ASTER, $VIRTUALS, and $XPL are all leaders in their respective fields.

Just now, Robinhood announced the listing of $SEI.

So, what is the logic behind this listing?

First, while Sei cannot be called a leader in L1, it is leading the L1 track in institutional-level DeFi.

Sei's layout in the institutional-level DeFi space has formed a closed loop:

▌BlackRock's BUIDL money market fund (with a scale of $20 billion)

▌Apollo's ACRED private credit fund (with $112 million in on-chain assets)

▌Tokenized funds from trillion-dollar asset management giants like Hamilton Lane and Brevan Howard

Second, from a conspiracy theory perspective, Sei Labs co-founder Jayendra Jog served as an early engineer at Robinhood for over 3 years (2018-2021), directly participating in building Robinhood's infrastructure.

This internal relationship may also explain why Robinhood chose Sei over other L1s.

Looking at it from a longer-term perspective, the real value of this listing is that Sei is becoming a global financial settlement layer connecting retail liquidity, institutional assets, and DeFi innovation.

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