Robinhood’s blockchain experiment is printing money at a pace that would make most Layer 1 networks jealous. Daily chain fees on Robinhood Chain have climbed to between $3.75 million and $4.5 million, a run rate that projects to over $1 billion in annualized revenue if the momentum holds.
For a network that only went live on July 1, 2026, those are staggering numbers. The chain has already accumulated more than $13 million in cumulative fees in roughly two months of operation, according to DefiLlama metrics.
How the money flows
Robinhood Chain is built on Arbitrum’s Orbit stack, making it an Ethereum Layer 2 that settles transactions back to the mainnet. After paying Ethereum settlement costs and carving out a 10% slice for Arbitrum, retained chain revenue still lands between $3.3 million and $4 million daily.
Robinhood keeps approximately 89% of the net chain revenue. The 10% that goes to Arbitrum gets split further: 8% flows into the Arbitrum DAO treasury and 2% feeds a developer fund.
