Robinhood CEO Calls Dogecoin ‘Future Currency of Internet’, Says Gas Fee Reduction Is a Must

Vladimir Tenev, the CEO of stocks and crypto trading platform Robinhood, has batted in favour of meme-based cryptocurrency, the Dogecoin. Tenev noted that the transaction fees linked to Dogecoin at present needs to be “vanishingly small”, something that Tesla chief Elon Musk has also said in the past. Tenev believes that Dogecoin has the potential to emerge as a usable asset for day-to-day payments and online transactions with just a few tweaks and improvements from the end of the developers.

Tenev posted a Twitter thread of 12 posts, outlining the roadmap towards larger Dogecoin adoption.

The Robinhood chief highlighted that the block size and the block time of Dogecoin are key areas that require improvement before the cryptocurrency inches closer to becoming widely adopted.

Block time is the amount of the time it takes for the miners or validators to verify transactions within one block and produce a new block within that blockchain. The block size, refers to the capacity of data storage that each block of a particular blockchain supports. Dogecoin exists on its own blockchain.

Dogecoin currently has a 1MB block size and a 1-minute block time that can give an output of 40 transactions per second (TPS).

Meanwhile, the present gas fee, or transaction charge on Dogecoin is — roughly $0.003 (roughly Rs. 0.23) per transaction — small enough to put the dog-coin as an e-currency frontrunner, a CoinTelegraph report said.

The more this gas fee reduces, the more Dogecoin gets a change to become a fiat substitute.

Last year, Musk had had also highlighted the reduction of gas fee in DOGE transactions as the need of the hour.

The multi-billionaire already accepts DOGE as a payment mode for some of Tesla's merchandises.

In fact, American movie theatre chain, AMC Theatres also accept Dogecoin as a payment option for select services.

Robinhood itself, added DOGE to its crypto listing back in 2018. That year, the meme coin alone accounted for over 30 percent of its crypto trading revenue.

Inspired by Dogecoin's success, Robinhood has recently added Shiba Inu also to its list of tradeable cryptocurrencies.