Robinhood Chain Mainnet Launch
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Robinhood Chain went live on public mainnet on 1 July 2026, a dedicated Arbitrum chain settling to Ethereum, after a testnet that processed more than 200 million transactions.
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The chain returns 10% of protocol net revenue under the Arbitrum Expansion Program (AEP) licence, with 8% flowing to the ArbitrumDAO treasury and 2% to the Arbitrum Developer Guild.
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Classic Stock Tokens, Robinhood’s first-generation product, launched on Arbitrum One in June 2025 and remain available in the Robinhood Europe app. The new Stock Tokens run on Robinhood Chain.
What happened
Robinhood announced the mainnet at its London event on 1 July, five months after the public testnet opened. The testnet has processed more than 200 million transactions. Built with Offchain, the chain runs at 100ms latency through configurable block times and preconfirmations, uses Dynamic Pricing for predictable unit economics and provides throughput that holds during heavy market activity, with ETH as its gas token.
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Stock Tokens are the core product. Robinhood has restructured them as tokenised debt securities, held in self-custody through the Robinhood Wallet, with 24/7 trading in more than 120 countries.
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Trading runs on a dedicated Uniswap AMM, lending goes through Morpho and dollar liquidity comes from USDG, the Paxos-issued stablecoin.
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Robinhood Earn, a lending product for eligible US customers, opened on the same stack at launch.
Revenue for the DAO
Arbitrum chains deployed outside of Arbitrum One pay 10% of protocol net revenue for using the technology. Of that 10%, 8% flows to the ArbitrumDAO treasury and 2% to the Arbitrum Developer Guild. Robinhood Chain settles to Ethereum, which puts it inside the licence’s scope.
The new Stock Tokens and Robinhood’s DeFi products run on Robinhood Chain. The DAO’s return from that chain is the 8% share of its protocol net revenue, which reaches the treasury through the AEP fee router and appears in the DAO’s regular financial reporting.
The Blueprint
Robinhood’s path runs from shared infrastructure to a dedicated chain. Classic Stock Tokens went live on Arbitrum One in June 2025 and Robinhood Chain reached production a year later. Each business that launches its own chain adds a licence line, scaling with that chain’s volume.
The launch is one example of how the platform adapts to what a business needs. Some come onchain to issue tokenised assets into existing markets. Others run a configurable environment for a particular use case, as LG Electronics is doing with onchain advertising. Robinhood built its own chain and that form is the one that settles beyond Arbitrum One - carrying with it the AEP fee.