The ARB token jumped roughly 7.6% after Robinhood Chain, a permissionless Ethereum Layer-2 built on Arbitrum’s Orbit technology stack, went live on its public mainnet and announced a fee-sharing model that funnels revenue directly back into the Arbitrum ecosystem.
What Robinhood Chain actually is
Robinhood Chain launched its public mainnet on July 1, 2026. The chain is purpose-built for tokenized real-world assets, think stocks, bonds, and other traditional financial instruments, alongside decentralized finance applications and on-chain financial services.
Block times clock in at 100 milliseconds. ETH serves as the gas fee currency, keeping the chain tethered to the broader Ethereum ecosystem rather than spinning up yet another token nobody asked for.
Robinhood Chain processed 4 million transactions within its first week of operation. Uniswap recorded $500 million in 24-hour trading volume on the chain. Chainlink integration rounds out the launch partnerships, providing the oracle infrastructure that DeFi applications need to function.
