Lighter CEO Vladimir Novakovski confirmed that customers can now use Robinhood Chain collateral for trading perpetual pairs on the Lighter platform. The integration arrives alongside the mainnet launch of Robinhood’s Ethereum Layer-2 chain, built on Arbitrum, which went live around July 1, 2026.
In practical terms, eligible users can deposit assets like the USDG stablecoin from their Robinhood Wallet into Lighter’s smart contracts to use as margin for perpetual futures trading.
What Lighter and Robinhood Chain actually do together
Lighter is a decentralized exchange built on zero-knowledge rollup technology that processes trades off the main Ethereum chain for speed and cost, then cryptographically proves everything was legit. The protocol was founded in 2022 by Novakovski.
Robinhood Chain features 24/7 tokenized stock trading and routes perpetual futures access through Lighter for eligible users. The whole experience lives inside the Robinhood Wallet, meaning users don’t need to navigate unfamiliar DeFi interfaces to start trading perps.
