What is Robinhood Chain?

Robinhood Markets, Inc. — the trading app — first revealed Robinhood Chain on June 30, 2025, alongside its stock-token launch in the EU. The chain's public mainnet went live on July 1, 2026, announced at a keynote in London called "Robinhood Presents: The World is Flat."

Robinhood's stated purpose for the chain is self-custody (holding your own assets in your own wallet, instead of a broker holding them for you), programmatic trading (software placing trades automatically, without a human clicking each one), and 24/7 access to assets that traditionally only trade during market hours.

Robinhood Chain settles to Ethereum: it periodically writes a summary of its activity back to the Ethereum network, and uses Ethereum's "blobs" (a cheap, dedicated storage lane on Ethereum) to hold its transaction data. It runs on infrastructure from Offchain Labs — the company behind Arbitrum, another Ethereum Layer 2 — under Offchain Labs' Arbitrum Expansion Program license. Under that license, 10% of Robinhood Chain's net protocol revenue flows back to the Arbitrum ecosystem: 8% to its DAO treasury, 2% to its Developer Guild.

Day-one ecosystem partners named at launch include Uniswap, Pleiades, Alchemy, BitGo, and Chainlink.

Robinhood Chain runs on the same underlying technology as Arbitrum (Offchain Labs' "Dedicated Blockchains" under the Arbitrum Expansion Program), but it is its own chain with its own chain ID, not a part of Arbitrum One.

The headline product is tokenized stocks — stock tokens meant to track the price of real equities, ETFs, and other assets on-chain. At initial rollout, Robinhood listed more than 2,000 stock tokens for over 150,000 customers across 30 countries, with no added Robinhood commission or spread on top, and support for dividend payments.

This is restricted to the EU/EEA. If you are not in an eligible EU/EEA country, you cannot currently buy Robinhood's tokenized stocks, regardless of what wallet or chain you're using. Stock tokens were initially issued on Arbitrum One, with Robinhood stating an intent to migrate issuance onto Robinhood Chain itself.

Outside of tokenized stocks, the chain is a general-purpose, EVM-compatible network. Anyone can deploy a standard smart contract on it — a trading pair, a vault, an NFT collection — with the same tools used on Ethereum.

According to Arbitrum's own governance factsheet (not a Robinhood source), Robinhood Chain targets roughly 100ms block times with preconfirmations, and its public testnet processed over 200 million transactions before mainnet launched.

Yes, with a caveat worth stating plainly. Robinhood Chain is permissionless: there is no listed approval process to deploy a contract, and standard EVM contracts — which includes the ERC-721 standard that most NFTs use — deploy the same way they would on Ethereum or Arbitrum.

That is a statement about the chain's architecture, not about Robinhood's opinion of any specific project. Robinhood's own documentation is focused on tokenized real-world assets and says nothing about NFT projects one way or the other. Deploying on Robinhood Chain does not mean Robinhood reviewed, approved, or endorsed what got deployed.

HoodMasks is an NFT collection being built on Robinhood Chain, using the same standard, permissionless smart-contract tooling open to any project on the chain. The Genesis contract is not deployed yet, and no mint date or mint price has been announced. Robinhood Markets, Inc. did not build, review, or endorse HoodMasks, and HoodMasks is not affiliated with Robinhood in any way. See the HoodMasks homepage for what it is, or the FAQ for direct answers.