SUBJECT BRIEF
Kitsu is Vlad Tenev’s Shiba Inu. Robinhood’s CEO has been posting the same dog for years, across office throwbacks and personal posts, and community sleuthing finally read the name off the collar tag: KITSU.
The coin turns the founder’s dog into a market-native mascot on Robinhood Chain. Clean, green, and deliberately simple.
PUBLIC RECEIPTS
Every claim below links straight to the source. Screenshots are here for speed, but the originals are one click away on X. The thread that first compiled this file: @bftdtrading.
“Throwback to this old (circa 2015) conference room at our Menlo Park office. Guess what we named it?”
Vlad posts an old photo from the early Robinhood office era. His Shiba is already there, sitting in the middle of the scene.
Open receipt 001 on X“Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.”
Vlad posts his own dog. This is the receipt that turned a background cameo into the face of the whole story.
Open receipt 002 on XThe name on the tag: KITSU
Official Robinhood office footage shows the collar close enough to read. That tag is the bridge from “Vlad’s dog” to a ticker.
“If anyone asks if we’re dog friendly, send them this.”
Asked whether Robinhood is dog friendly, Vlad answers the only way he does. Three years after the last receipt, the motif has not moved an inch.
Open receipt 004 on XIDENTITY SCAN
The name is what turns years of scattered posts into one coherent identity: not a random office dog, but Vlad Tenev’s dog, with a name. The project does not need invented mythology. The receipts are the mythology.
ON CHAIN FILE
The current Robinhood Chain pool is paired against WETH on Uniswap. The token profile lists a 1 billion supply and the contract below.
Vlad posted the transaction himself and revealed the wallet publicly. That wallet received 2,500,000 KITSU on Arbitrum and later moved the full balance out. Two transactions, both verifiable on Arbiscan.
The post where Vlad shows the walletCOMMUNITY COMPARABLES
These are community circulated historical reference points, not targets, promises, or projections.
Found an old office post? Remember the first time you saw the dog? Have a meme, receipt, or piece of lore we missed? Add it to the archive.
FILE EXTRA / ARCADE
Flap the Chief Barking Officer through the candles and try not to get liquidated. Same dog, worse risk management.
