Robinhood Chain Surpassed 100K Weekly Users and $50M TVL in Its First Week

Robinhood Chain's public mainnet went live on July 1, 2026, and within its first week crossed 100,000 weekly active users and $50 million in total value locked (TVL). Bridged ETH flowing into the chain surged roughly tenfold in the days after launch ^BP. The rapid adoption was fueled by three main drivers: the launch of tokenized U.S. stock tokens, meme coin futures activity, and a 10% fee-sharing arrangement with the Arbitrum ecosystem ^EM.

Chain Launch & Technical Specifications

Robinhood Chain entered public testing on February 10, 2026, processing 4 million transactions in its first week with over 600,000 deployed contracts ^FB. CEO Vlad Tenev announced the milestone on X, noting strong developer interest in the network ^F. The public mainnet followed on July 1, 2026, unveiled at Robinhood's "The World is Flat" keynote in London. The network moved from private testing to public mainnet in roughly one year ^EF.

The chain is built on the Arbitrum Orbit stack (chain ID 4663) with ETH as the gas token, and integrates Arbitrum Stylus, Chainlink, and LayerZero for infrastructure ^PA. Robinhood's official newsroom describes it as built "using the Arbitrum Platform to institutional standards" ^E.

Tokenized Stock Offerings: The Headline Use Case

Robinhood first announced tokenized U.S. equities at a Cannes event on June 30, 2025, launching over 200 stock and ETF tokens for EU/EEA users ^B. By December 2025 the catalog had grown to more than 1,000 stock tokens, and by mid-2026 it surpassed 2,000 tokens ^YE. Stock Tokens are available on the Robinhood Wallet in more than 120 countries with zero commissions or added spreads from Robinhood ^EB.

On-chain data as of July 2, 2026, shows the chain had processed over 323,000 transactions across more than 9,600 unique wallet addresses, with tokenized equities as the headline use case ^PS. The single busiest contract on the chain is Wrapped ETH (WETH), with 69,940 transfers representing 61% of all ERC-20 movement ^S.

Meme Coin Activity

Robinhood expanded its crypto offerings in parallel, launching meme coin futures and increasing leverage for altcoins like DOGE and XRP to attract advanced traders ^A. The chain launch strategy supports both tokenized stocks and meme coin trading as complementary growth avenues ^AA.

Fee-Sharing Arrangement with Arbitrum

On July 9, 2026, Offchain Labs co-founder Steven Goldfeder announced that 10% of fees generated by Robinhood Chain will flow back to the Arbitrum ecosystem ^EM. The revenue split allocates 8% to the Arbitrum DAO treasury and 2% to developer funding ^MR. By July 2, the chain had already generated $57,000 in fees, with 8% ($4,560) routed to the DAO ^C.

This institutional L2 revenue share directly ties Robinhood Chain's on-chain activity to the Arbitrum treasury, creating what analysts describe as a mutual incentive structure that aligns both networks' success ^EBC.

Broader Strategic Implications

Robinhood Chain represents a first-principles bet on tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) and on-chain finance, positioning the company as infrastructure provider rather than just a brokerage ^BE.

• Compliance at the protocol level: By owning the settlement layer, Robinhood can bake KYC and identity verification directly into the sequencer, making regulated on-chain finance more practical ^EL.
• 24/7 trading: Tokenized stock trading can run continuously without traditional market-hour constraints ^ER.
• AI-native design: Robinhood describes the chain as "AI-native" and has introduced an "agentic trading" product suite, signaling a push into autonomous trading agents ^ER.

By controlling the chain, Robinhood can also subsidize gas fees for users, making blockchain activity effectively invisible to retail traders ^L. The fee-sharing deal with Arbitrum positions Robinhood to compete with traditional exchanges and other crypto platforms like Binance and Coinbase by aligning infrastructure incentives across both ecosystems ^EBA.