By Isaac • July 1, 2026 4:39 pm •
Robinhood turned on the public mainnet for Robinhood Chain on July 1, 2026. The brokerage now runs its own Ethereum-compatible Layer 2.
The chain is built for financial services and tokenized real-world assets. Robinhood’s own documentation describes it as a permissionless L2 that uses ETH as its native gas token.
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This is a retail brokerage building blockchain infrastructure underneath its products rather than just listing coins on someone else’s chain. That shift is the story.
Robinhood Chain mainnet is live. Fast, secure, AI-native, and purpose-built for real-world assets from day one.
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— Robinhood (@RobinhoodApp) July 1, 2026
The launch came bundled with several products at once. Tokenized stocks, DeFi lending, perpetual futures access,
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