Robinhood Markets unveiled a major crypto expansion centered on a new Layer-2 blockchain, tokenized U.S. stocks, decentralized lending, AI-powered trading and expanded perpetual futures, aiming to bridge traditional finance, crypto and DeFi.

The brokerage app is pushing deeper into tokenized finance, AI trading and crypto derivatives as it tries to capture the next era of retail investing.

Robinhood Chain, a Layer 2 built using Arbitrum's tech stack, went live on public mainnet, with partners including Uniswap from day one.