Roblox announced at its annual developer conference in San Jose, California, that it will launch a new digital wallet to pay creators faster and will let users play its games outside the Roblox app. The Roblox Wallet will automatically deliver, every business day, the real-world revenue generated by creators' games and let them transfer it to a bank account, replacing the current system in which creators must manually request conversion of their Robux once they hit a threshold and then wait through a long payment delay. The wallet will be managed by payment company Airwallex and will be available starting in December to adult creators in the United States, before rolling out internationally in 2027 alongside an associated payment card; chief commercial officer Enrico D'Angelo said at a press briefing that Roblox will not become a bank and that the wallet is a financial account, not a bank account. Roblox says it has paid out more than $5 billion to creators since 2013, including $1.7 billion over the past twelve months, with the roughly 42,000 paid creators earning a median of about $1,500 a year. By the end of the year users will also be able to launch games directly from the Chrome browser via a shared link without going through the Roblox app, and creators will be able to distribute games as standalone apps on mobile, PC and consoles, with an offline mode also planned. Around 123 million people played on Roblox every day in the second quarter of 2026, up 10 percent from a year earlier but down from a peak of 151 million in the summer of 2025, and the company is forecasting a 14 percent to 18 percent drop in overall player purchases in the current quarter; co-founder and CEO David Baszucki aims to capture 10 percent of the global video game market, and the next earnings report is expected at the end of October.
Roblox CorpRoblox launches a creator wallet and off-platform/standalone game distribution, but also forecasts a 14-18% drop in player purchases.
Alibaba Pictures Group LtdAirwallex will manage the new Roblox Wallet, gaining a major payments partnership.
