Robinhood has two founders.
One built the chain.
The other went to space.
Baiju Bhatt started Robinhood together with Vlad Tenev back in 2013. In 2024 he left and began building satellites that collect solar power in orbit and send it down to Earth with lasers. Sounds made up. It's not — the guy is worth $2.5B and this is what he does now. $GLOW is a token about that beam.
Founder & CEO, Aetherflux → Cowboy Space. Co-founder, @RobinhoodApp. Physics & Math, Stanford. Dad worked at NASA Langley — space runs in the family.
Check it yourself.
We pulled six sources and none of them are crypto sites — it's Wikipedia, Fast Company, TechCrunch, Payload, Space.com and the WSJ. Open any of them. The story holds up.
Co-founder and former co-CEO of Robinhood. Net worth: $2.5 billion (Forbes). Founder of Cowboy Space Corporation.
Basic background. Boring on purpose — easy to check.
VERIFY → wikipedia.orgBhatt wants to create "the Starlink of solar power" — satellites beaming energy to Earth by infrared laser.
The laser isn't a side project. It's literally the whole company.
VERIFY → fastcompany.com$50M Series A — Index, a16z, Breakthrough Energy, NEA… and Jared Leto. First demo satellite: 2026, ~1 kW by laser.
Real investors, a real satellite, and the demo is scheduled for this year.
VERIFY → yahoo finance"This is not your grandfather's space solar power design" — Bhatt. Team hired from NASA, SpaceX, Lockheed, Anduril, the Navy.
His own words. And look at who he hired.
VERIFY → payloadspace.comAetherflux rebrands to Cowboy Space and raises $275 million — AI data centers in orbit, on a brand-new rocket.
This happened two months ago. The story keeps getting bigger.
VERIFY → via wikipedia refs"Robinhood Co-Founder to Step Down as Creative Chief" — the day the space chapter quietly began.
The day he left. Seven months later he showed up with satellites.
VERIFY → via wikipedia refsFire the beam.
There's a satellite up there and a chain down here. Hold the button — the laser does the rest. Everything you beam goes into the reactor below.
The reactor.
Every kWh you beam charges a cell. Fill a row of 12 and it mints a generation block. Basically mining, except the sun does the work.
Two founders. One circuit.
Vlad built the chain.
Tokenized stocks, 100ms blocks, memecoins doing half a billion a day. The chain is live. And it runs on electricity.
Baiju is building the power.
Solar panels in orbit, lasers pointing down, $335M raised so far. At some point the chain plugs into the sky. We're just early.
$GLOW
AFTERGLOW — a token about the beam. Launching on Robinhood Chain. We're not affiliated with Baiju or any of his companies. We just think this story is too good to ignore.