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#508: Robinhood Is Handing Customers And Investors A 'Gold'e

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If approved, lonvo-z would be the world's first gene-editing therapy delivered in-vivo (inside the body).

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AI is amplifying, not cannibalizing, the legacy cloud business.

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Robinhood Gold is designed to transform intermittent brokerage users into high-frequency financial users.

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Robinhood is shifting from a transactional model to a recurring revenue, relationship-driven model.

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The hyperscalers' capital expenditure (capex) is racing to keep pace with contracted demand, not chasing a hypothetical future.

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Cloud growth is accelerating, not maturing, driven by strong AI adoption.

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Major equity index providers are overhauling their inclusion rules in anticipation of a potentially largest IPO wave in history.

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Gold subscriptions have been generating approximately $100 million in annualized recurring revenue (ARR).

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Robinhood Gold is following a playbook similar to Amazon Prime, priced to maximize adoption instead of near-term revenue.

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Gold users adopt retirement accounts at 3.3-times the rate of non-Gold users.

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Robinhood's products are reinforcing one another: Banking drives deposits, deposits fund investing, and spending data informs credit.

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On average, HAE patients experience two or more attacks per month, each lasting several days if untreated.

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HAE patients on modern prophylactics face lifelong chronic treatment that does not fully protect against occasional attacks.

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The Gold Card is generating annualized recurring revenue not far behind Gold subscriptions.

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Robinhood Strategies hit $1.5 billion in assets under management (AUM) in little more than a year.

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The Gold Card has quadrupled to 765,000 users over the past year.

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Approximately 40% of new Robinhood users opt into Gold at signup.

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During the six-month efficacy evaluation period, lonvo-z patients experienced 87% fewer attacks than placebo patients.

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Lonvo-z could pave the way for one-time treatments to reach a much broader range of diseases.

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HAE is a rare genetic disease impacting approximately 7,000 patients in the US.

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HAE patients are diagnosed at an average age of 20 years.

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HAE leads to the overproduction of bradykinin, an inflammatory molecule.

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Bradykinin triggers sudden, painful swelling attacks in the face, abdomen, extremities, and airway.

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HAE attacks can be life-threatening when they impact the throat.

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By the end of 2025, approximately 90% of eligible US Casgevy patients enjoyed reimbursed access.

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Modern prophylactic HAE therapies reduce attack rates by approximately 70-90% in Phase 3 trials.

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ARK's research estimates a real-world price of $3 million per HAE patient for lonvo-z.

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Casgevy was the first CRISPR-based gene-editing therapy to reach the market.

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Casgevy treats sickle cell disease.

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Casgevy uses ex-vivo gene editing, where cells are edited outside the body.

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The lonvo-z readout is a landmark for gene-editing.

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Robinhood Banking accumulated $1.6 billion in deposits in the first quarter, two quarters after rolling out.

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Inactivating KLKB1 interrupts the production of bradykinin, preventing HAE swelling attacks.

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Lonvo-z's editing tools inactivate KLKB1 in the liver, the gene that produces kallikrein.

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Patients receive the lonvo-z infusion in an outpatient setting over two to four hours.

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Intellia's Phase 3 trial randomly assigned 80 HAE patients in a 2:1 ratio to receive either lonvo-z or a placebo.

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Lonvo-z is a one-time gene-editing therapy for hereditary angioedema (HAE).

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100% of lonvo-z patients benefited from some reduction in attack rate relative to baseline.

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62% of lonvo-z patients experienced no attacks at all.

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The lonvo-z trial results met its endpoints with high statistical significance.

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The trial used a crossover design, with placebo patients receiving lonvo-z after a six-month observation period.

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Mean attack rates in both the original treatment arm and the placebo crossover arm fell rapidly to nearly zero within 8 weeks of crossover dosing.

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Every patient who received lonvo-z benefited from the near-elimination of attacks.

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Lonvo-z had a favorable safety profile with no serious liver safety signals.

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One critique of lonvo-z is its permanence, questioning why to choose an irreversible gene edit over effective prophylactics.

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Intellia's survey data show 68% of HAE patients are highly concerned about the need for lifetime medication.

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Intellia's survey data show 80% of HAE patients are concerned about shifts in health insurance coverage inhibiting therapy access.

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A one-time treatment like lonvo-z would eliminate concerns about lifetime medication and insurance coverage shifts.

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A second critique suggests the lonvo-z edit might not be permanent enough due to limited long-term durability data.

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Critiques about permanence and durability echoed those Casgevy navigated after its approval.

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Lonvo-z uses in-vivo gene editing, where editing components are delivered through one intravenous infusion.

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The number of patients receiving Casgevy infusions jumped from 5 in 2024 to 64 during 2025.

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The US wholesale acquisition cost for Casgevy is $2.2 million per dose.

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Commercial uptake for gene-editing therapies is accelerating even at premium pricing.

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The Casgevy treatment journey can take up to 12 months to complete, involving stem-cell collection, chemotherapy, infusion, and recovery.

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ARK's modeled value-based price for lonvo-z is approximately $11 million per HAE patient.

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A one-time gene-editing therapy for every HAE patient today could save the healthcare system approximately $52 billion in direct costs over the remaining lives of the ~7,000 US patients.

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Cost savings create a clear incentive for payers to reimburse a one-time treatment over costly lifelong prophylactic care.

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The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) concluded that lifelong prophylactic HAE care is priced above the value delivered.

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Intellia Therapeutics reported positive topline Phase 3 results for lonvoguran ziclumeran (lonvo-z) last week.

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