Arbitrum Stack Powers Robinhood Chain Mainnet Across 120+ Countries

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Robinhood took its Layer-2 network live on the Arbitrum technology stack, moving Robinhood Chain from testnet to public mainnet during a London keynote. The rollout arrived roughly five months after the broker opened a public testnet, and it settles transactions off-chain before finalizing them on Ethereum to lower fees. The company positioned the network as a bridge between tokenized real-world assets and traditional finance. HOOD shares gained more than 8% following the event. The launch adds Robinhood to a growing roster of corporates building on Arbitrum infrastructure, and it underscores how established brokerages are now shipping their own permissionless chains for regulated financial products.

Technical specifications set Robinhood Chain apart from a typical appchain launch. The network deliberately skips a proprietary gas token, instead using Ethereum (ETH) to cover gas and transaction costs, a design choice that keeps the chain tightly coupled to its settlement layer. The company claims roughly 100-millisecond block times, positioning the network for high-frequency financial activity rather than general-purpose use. Chainlink confirmed it now serves as the network’s data and cross-chain oracle, supporting the platform’s Stock Tokens from day one. The combination of sub-second blocks, ETH-denominated fees and integrated oracle feeds signals an architecture aimed squarely at tokenized equities and settlement-sensitive trading flows.

Tokenized equities form the core of the release. Eligible users across more than 120 countries can now trade Stock Tokens around the clock through Robinhood Wallet, an AI Crypto Wallet layer, although availability varies by jurisdiction. Uniswap joined as a day-one partner, deploying a dedicated liquidity protocol so that tokenized shares can trade against an Automated Market Maker rather than a traditional order book. In regions where the feature is active, holders can also post these tokenized equities as collateral inside DeFi protocols. The design collapses the boundary between listed stocks and on-chain lending, letting a single asset serve as both an equity position and DeFi margin.

Native lending products went live alongside the token launch. Robinhood Earn now lets eligible US users lend the USDG stablecoin at an estimated 7% APY, extending the firm’s new Crypto Earn push built on the Morpho lending protocol. The move deepens Robinhood’s footprint in yield-bearing crypto products, an area rivals are racing to capture. Binance and OKX are both exploring tokenized US stocks, so competition across the tokenized-equity segment continues to intensify. By pairing a stablecoin yield product with tokenized shares on the same Arbitrum-based chain, Robinhood is assembling an integrated stack that spans lending, trading and settlement under one roof.

The keynote also doubled as a showcase for agentic finance. On stage, an AI Trading Bot-style agent used a virtual Agentic Credit Card to complete the most purchases within three minutes, a feat an on-site adjudicator certified as a Guinness World Record. The agent sourced, selected and ordered gifts for attendees autonomously. The company said it plans to extend Agentic Accounts beyond equities and options into US crypto trading, while its own disclosures caution that AI agents carry execution risks. The stunt reinforced Robinhood’s pitch that automated agents will become a primary interface for on-chain financial activity.

Robinhood framed the launch as part of a broader global expansion, emphasizing Canadian service, plus rollouts targeting Singapore and the United Kingdom, layered on top of an existing base of roughly 28 million customers. The context is a difficult revenue backdrop: the firm reported that crypto-segment revenue fell about 34% quarter-over-quarter and cut close to 10% of its workforce last month. BitGo was cited among the integrated custody and infrastructure partners. Against that squeezed earnings picture, markets appeared to reward the strategic pivot toward tokenized stocks and DeFi rails, treating the Arbitrum-based chain as a durable new business line rather than a one-off product experiment.

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