Robinhood Chain After September 29: What the End of Free Gas Changes for the Stock Chain

Robinhood Chain: 150M Transactions and $12B in DEX Volume

Robinhood is expanding from a brokerage and crypto trading platform into blockchain infrastructure. On July 1, 2026, it launched the public mainnet of Robinhood Chain, a permissionless, Ethereum-compatible Layer 2 built on Arbitrum and designed for tokenized real-world assets (RWAs), decentralized finance, and other financial applications. The chain supports 24/7 trading in eligible tokenized stocks while letting those assets interact with decen…

Robinhood Chain Volume Halves as Free Gas Ends, TVL Stays at $1B Blockchain News ETHNews

Key takeaways Robinhood Chain’s daily DEX volume has retreated from its mid-September record. Deposited capital has held up far better than trading activity. Memecoin launchpads, not tokenized stocks, generated most of the network’s turnover. Robinhood’s free gas period for wallet users ended on September 29. Robinhood Chain, the Arbitrum-based layer-2 network that Robinhood launched on […]

Robinhood Chain After September 29: What the End of Free Gas Changes for the Stock Chain

The Robinhood Chain is the broker's own layer-2 network, running on the Arbitrum Orbit toolkit, storing its data on Ethereum and settling gas in ETH. Since launching on July 1, 2026 it has become the costliest surprise of the year: $1.02 billion sits in its contracts, more than on Polygon, and...