Your token balance does not change. One number changes, and that number decides what each of your tokens counts as.
On 2 July 2026 Robinhood recorded a split for CRWD (CrowdStrike Holdings) on Robinhood Chain, taking each token from counting as one share to counting as four. Both transactions that carry it are linked above.
Why not just mint more tokens?
A 4-for-1 split on a token with ten thousand holders would mean ten thousand transfers to mint three extra tokens into every wallet. Ten thousand gas fees, and ten thousand chances for something to go wrong halfway through. Do that for every split of every stock and the ledger becomes mostly corporate-action machinery.
Issuers with a multiplier mechanic do the arithmetic instead. Your shares are your raw token balance times a multiplier. Change the multiplier from 1 to 4 and every holder's share count quadruples in a single transaction, with no token moving anywhere.
| Tokens in the wallet | Shares counted, before | Shares counted, after |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | 10 | 40 |
| 100 | 100 | 400 |
| 1,000 | 1,000 | 4,000 |
The left column is what the chain actually stores. Everything on the right is that number times the multiplier, worked out when something asks the contract what a balance is worth.
On EVM chains this is the ERC-8056 Scaled UI Amount extension. Solana has an equivalent, also called Scaled UI Amount. The glossary has both.
Where the number lives matters
If the multiplier is on the token, as Robinhood's is, your wallet reflects the split by itself. You open your wallet after the split and the number shown has changed, without you doing anything.
If the multiplier is in a separate contract, as Ondo Global Markets keeps its synthetic share value, your wallet balance stays put and so does what your wallet displays. The split is real, and your wallet is not the place you will see it. You have to read the issuer's contract.
That distinction catches people out. A wallet showing the same number after a corporate action does not mean the corporate action was skipped.
Dinari does it differently again
Dinari's mechanic is a distribution rather than a multiplier: it pays cash dividends to your wallet as a stablecoin, and rebases for splits. So "what happens in a split" has more than one correct answer, depending on whose token you hold. Check the issuer named on the token rather than the category.
The odd detail in the CRWD record
The chain records this split twice, in two separate transactions, both setting the multiplier to 4 from 1.
We do not know why there are two, and we are not going to guess. Robinhood has not published an explanation we can point at. Both transactions are public and both are linked above, so you can look at exactly what we looked at.
A split at a broker is a line on a statement you have to accept. We can tell you this one was recorded twice only because the record is open.
Check it yourself
CRWD's page is at /stocks/crwd, and every corporate action we hold a transaction for is on the events page.
The figures above come from the linked transactions.