It's incredible how rich Robinhood is with cool lores and all sorts of Easter eggs.
Robinhood’s app has a product which is called “Robinhood Legend”, it’s a professional desktop trading platform for active traders. Unlike the standard Robinhood app, which is designed for simplicity, Legend is built for users who want a customizable, multi-window trading workstation with advanced analysis tools.
And if you delve deep into the files and codes of Robinhood Legend, you can find the code name of this product, behind which lies a very rich plot. The code name is “Black Widow”.
https://t.co/dq9JGtdyVL
Here is what you can find in this Robinhood’s js bundle:
WEB_CLIENT_PREFERENCE_BLACK_WIDOW
BLACK_WIDOW_SIGNED_LEGEND_AGREEMENT
BLACK_WIDOW_DEFAULT_TO_LEGEND
BLACK_WIDOW_CLASSIC_TO_LEGEND_INTEREST
BLACK_WIDOW_FIRST_LAYOUT_CREATED
BLACK_WIDOW_FIRST_WIDGET_ADDED
BLACK_WIDOW_FIRST_SINGLE_LEG_TRADE
BLACK_WIDOW_OPTION_CHAIN_ANALYZER
BLACK_WIDOW_BFF
Here is the strong proof:
ClientPlatform:
IOS = 1
ANDROID = 2
WEB = 3
BLACK_WIDOW = 4
So, Black Widow is a Robinhood’s internal codename for the advanced trading platform that became Robinhood Legend. The codename remains visible in Robinhood’s production JavaScript through platform enums, UX flags, onboarding events, and Classic-to-Legend migration logic.
But here is the part where this lore keeps getting dipper. While trying to find a connection between Robinhood and Black Widow, I came across a Fortune article that said Black Widow was a full-fledged cross-team strategy that turned Robinhood into a “serious platform. No one knows exactly what that strategy included, but there were design changes to their product and something else. That is, this is the real secret code/strategy of the company, which contributed to the rise of Robinhood and what we have now.
https://t.co/DBdaWkGxpE
I'm sure Black Widow has even more lore, but only the top people at Robinhood Company know about it.