Robinhood Chain went live on its public mainnet on July 1, 2026, marking the company’s most serious step yet into the infrastructure layer of decentralized finance.
What Robinhood Chain actually is
Robinhood Chain is a Layer 2 blockchain, meaning it inherits Ethereum’s security while processing transactions faster and more cheaply off the main chain. The technical backbone is the Arbitrum tech stack. The chain is permissionless and Ethereum-compatible, which means any developer can deploy on it using familiar tooling.
Key features at launch include 24/7 trading, self-custody support, and full DeFi composability. Composability means different financial protocols can plug into each other, so a tokenized stock position could be used as collateral for a loan in a completely separate application, automatically, without paperwork.
The public testnet, which launched on February 10, 2026, recorded millions of transactions before the mainnet went live.
