Robinhood Goes Full Crypto Native With Its Own Blockchain
The trading app launches a public testnet for Robinhood Chain, an Ethereum Layer 2 built on Arbitrum.
Robinhood just dropped a public testnet for its very own blockchain. Called Robinhood Chain, it's an Ethereum Layer 2 network built on Arbitrum's infrastructure.
The goal? Enable 24/7 trading and eventually plug tokenized stocks into the DeFi ecosystem. That means your shares could potentially live on-chain and interact with decentralized finance protocols.
The testnet is live now for developers and early adopters to poke around. A full public rollout is slated for later in 2026.
This is Robinhood betting big on crypto infrastructure rather than just offering trading. By building its own chain, the company positions itself as core plumbing for the tokenized future it's banking on.
Whether Wall Street and Main Street actually want stocks on a blockchain remains the billion-dollar question.