Robinhood Launches Public Mainnet for Arbitrum-Based Layer 2

Robinhood Markets revealed the public mainnet release of Robinhood Chain at a London presentation, rolling out a dedicated Layer 2 network engineered with the Arbitrum Platform ¹. The network is designed for decentralized finance protocols and real-world assets, featuring day-one automated market maker integrations from Uniswap and Pleiades, alongside infrastructure support from Alchemy, BitGo, and Chainlink ¹. The rollout forms part of a broader push to connect the brokerage's retail audience directly to onchain applications ¹.

Alongside the network launch, Robinhood introduced new Stock Tokens within Robinhood Wallet across more than 120 countries, permitting round-the-clock trading and collateral use within decentralized lending pools ¹. Eligible wallet users can trade these synthetic assets via decentralized exchanges such as Uniswap, Rialto, Lighter, Arcus, and 1Inch ¹. The firm is also debuting Robinhood Earn for eligible US participants, a decentralized lending service powered by the Morpho protocol that lets individuals lend dollar-backed USDG through a self-custody wallet at an estimated 7% APY ¹. The lending product incorporates exploit insurance secured through Lloyd's of London and RELM ¹.

Derivatives and Agentic Tools

Robinhood is widening its derivatives footprint by embedding perpetual futures into Robinhood Wallet via the Lighter decentralized exchange, incentivized by an 11 million $LIT token pool ¹. For European Union clients, the brokerage is expanding beyond crypto perpetuals to roll out commodity, foreign exchange, and ETF perpetual contracts covering assets like gold, EUR/USD, and crude oil with up to 10x leverage ¹. The brokerage previously discussed expanding synthetic and derivative capabilities when exploring crypto perpetual futures and autonomous agents.

Domestically, the platform is preparing to roll out Agentic Accounts for crypto, allowing US users to connect chosen artificial intelligence models to market data to execute automated strategies within custom guardrails ¹. Internationally, Robinhood confirmed it secured a capital markets services license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore and plans to launch crypto trading in the UK ¹. At the time of writing, $ETH changed hands around $2,697.