Canada’s crypto market has spent the last few years getting smaller and more serious at the same time. After a wave of regulatory tightening between 2023 and 2025 — driven by the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) and the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) — several major international exchanges, including Binance, Bybit and OKX, exited the country rather than meet new compliance requirements. What remained was a smaller, tighter field of registered platforms operating under stricter rules, including mandatory asset segregation, qualified cold storage custody and regular proof-of-reserves audits.

Fast-forward to mid-2026, and Robinhood — the popular…