Can you buy the S&P 500 with USDC?

Catch at a glance

Trading

24/7, weekends included

Fee

0.50% once per move, $0.10 minimum

Chains

Robinhood Chain only for SPY

Issued by

Robinhood on Robinhood Chain. Not issued by Catch.

Buy SPY with USDC

1. 1

   Open Catch

   Open Catch in Telegram or on the web.

2. 2

   Send USDC on Base

   Open Withdraw or Send (Pay in the Coinbase app), pick USDC and the network called Base, and send at least $5 to the address Catch shows under Add money. Only send on Base or Robinhood Chain; other networks may be lost.

3. 3

   Buy SPY

   Pick SPDR S&P 500 ETF, check the price and the fee, then slide. If your dollars are on Base, the same slide moves them to Robinhood Chain, adds ETH for network fees there if needed, and buys the token, usually in seconds. Catch charges 0.50% once per move, $0.10 minimum.

What you are buying

SPY is Robinhood's SPDR S&P 500 ETF token on Robinhood Chain: a token that tracks the ETF, not a unit of the fund in a brokerage account. Robinhood's tokens on Robinhood Chain are tokenised debt securities issued by Robinhood Assets (Jersey) Limited: they give economic exposure to the underlying share but no legal or beneficial rights in it, and Robinhood says each is backed 1:1 by a share held by a licensed custodian.

Your money sits in one balance, held in dollars, across Base and Robinhood Chain, and moving it between them has no Catch fee.

Where Catch is not a fit

Catch sells stock tokens held in your Catch wallet, not a brokerage account. If you want a brokerage account, Catch is not a fit.

If you live in the US, Catch is not a fit: Coinbase says its stock tokens are not available to persons in the US and other restricted places. Robinhood says its Stock Tokens may not be sold in the US or to US persons, and are not available to residents of Canada, the UK or Switzerland.

This page lists only the Robinhood token, which Robinhood says is not available to residents of Canada, the UK or Switzerland.

No USDC yet? You can also pay by card through MoonPay, though card payments are not available in every country yet.

This page does not cover the rules where you live; check those for your own situation.

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Questions

Can I buy the S&P 500 with USDC?

Yes, as a stock token. In Catch you send USDC on Base to the address shown under Add money and buy SPY, Robinhood's token that tracks the SPDR S&P 500 ETF. Catch charges 0.50% once per move, $0.10 minimum.

Which network do I send USDC on?

Base. Open Withdraw or Send (Pay in the Coinbase app), pick USDC and the network called Base, and send at least $5 to the address Catch shows under Add money. Only send on Base or Robinhood Chain; other networks may be lost. You do not bridge to Robinhood Chain yourself: one slide moves your dollars there and buys the token.

Can I buy the S&P 500 at night or at the weekend?

Yes. Catch has no trading hours. While US markets are closed there is no live share price to compare with, so token prices can move away from the last close.

Who can buy these stock tokens?

Coinbase says its stock tokens are not available to persons in the US and other restricted places. Robinhood says its Stock Tokens may not be sold in the US or to US persons, and are not available to residents of Canada, the UK or Switzerland. Robinhood also lists investors in Ukraine, Sudan, South Sudan and Venezuela as Prohibited Investors, so from there only the Coinbase tokens on Base are an option, where Coinbase allows it. Catch blocks buying and selling only in Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Russia, Belarus, Myanmar and four occupied regions of Ukraine.

Sources

Read 7 Nov 2026. Facts about other companies are paraphrased from their own pages.

• Coinbase Tokenized Stocks (Coinbase Tokenize)
• Robinhood: Invest with Stock Tokens
• Robinhood Chain docs: Stock Tokens
• Robinhood: restricted jurisdictions for Stock Tokens
• Catch: the SPDR S&P 500 ETF stock page