Robinhood now runs its own blockchain, and Chainlink is the oracle layer holding it together. The company activated Robinhood Chain mainnet on July 1, 2026, during “The World is Flat” livestream from London’s Old Royal Naval College. Meanwhile, Chainlink went live from block zero as the official oracle and cross-chain infrastructure. As a result, tokenized stocks, onchain lending, and perpetuals arrived with the network on day one. Robinhood serves nearly 28 million customers across 38 countries, according to its own reporting. So this launch pushes onchain finance directly into a mainstream retail base.
Robinhood Chain mainnet is live.
— Robinhood Crypto (@RobinhoodCrypto) July 1, 2026
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Inside Robinhood Chain
Robinhood Chain runs as an Ethereum Layer 2 built on Arbitrum’s Orbit stack. However, the design is not a generic rollup deployment. Instead, Robinhood tailored the chain for tokenized real-world assets, AI-native workflows, and continuous markets. Additionally, the network is permissionless, so any developer can deploy contracts and integrate liquidity. On day one, Uniswap arrived as the primary public automated market maker, while a proprietary system called Pleiades handles internal market making. Meanwhile, Alchemy, BitGo, and Chainlink round out the core infrastructure stack. As a result, Robinhood Chain launches with plumbing that most new L2s take months to assemble.
Robinhood Chain is natively leveraging the Chainlink platform, including:
— Chainlink (@chainlink) July 1, 2026
• CCIP to unlock secure cross-chain connectivity across the multi-chain ecosystem
• Data Streams and Data Feeds to power fast, secure, and accurate pricing for Stock Tokens
Chainlink Powers the Oracle and Cross-Chain Layer
Chainlink is doing more than delivering price feeds here. Specifically, three Chainlink services went live on Robinhood Chain from day one. Data Feeds handle onchain reference prices for tokenized equities like NVDA, GOOG, and AAPL. Additionally, Data Streams deliver low-latency market data for high-frequency trading and settlement flows. Meanwhile, the Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol, or CCIP, moves stock tokens and messages between Robinhood Chain and outside networks. As a result, users can move tokenized Apple shares across chains without leaving the Chainlink security perimeter. Notably, Chainlink already secures over 70% of DeFi and has enabled more than $31 trillion in transaction value. So Robinhood is plugging into the largest oracle network in the market rather than building a proprietary one.
Gaëtan Thabot, Director of Product at Robinhood Crypto, framed the choice around institutional trust. In the launch announcement, Thabot said Chainlink’s “institutional-grade security and reliability are already trusted by the world’s largest financial institutions.”
Tokenized Stocks Scale to 120+ Countries
The launch expands Robinhood’s tokenized stock offering to eligible users in over 120 countries. Users access these tokens through the Robinhood Wallet rather than the traditional brokerage app. Importantly, the stock tokens sit inside a tokenized debt structure. So holders do not receive legal rights to the underlying shares, even though the tokens mirror price movement. Meanwhile, users can lend the tokens, deploy them into liquidity pools, or post them as collateral in DeFi. Trading venues include Uniswap, Rialto, Lighter, 1inch, and Arcus. However, the tokens remain unavailable in the U.S., Canada, UK, Switzerland, UAE, and sanctioned jurisdictions.
Robinhood Presents: The World is Flat https://t.co/klNh8iHFPd
— Robinhood (@RobinhoodApp) July 1, 2026
Lending, Perpetuals, and Agentic Trading Round Out the Stack
Robinhood built more than tokenized stocks on top of the chain. First, Robinhood Earn launched as the first decentralized lending product inside the main Robinhood app. It lets users lend USDG stablecoins at roughly 7% APY. Morpho powers the underlying market infrastructure, while Lloyd’s of London and RELM provide insurance coverage. Additionally, Robinhood Wallet users can trade perpetual futures through Lighter, an Ethereum-based DEX. Lighter committed $11 million in LIT tokens to the community and covered gas fees for a 90-day launch window. Meanwhile, Robinhood previewed Agentic Accounts for crypto, which connect user-selected AI models to a Trading MCP interface. Notably, humans still control capital allocation and safety guardrails inside the agentic setup.
Why This Launch Matters
Robinhood is bridging its retail customer base into onchain markets in a single move. The company is also pairing that reach with two of the most battle-tested pieces of Web3 infrastructure. Specifically, Arbitrum provides the execution environment, while Chainlink handles data and cross-chain movement. As a result, tokenized stocks now have a mainstream on-ramp connected to the broader DeFi liquidity map. However, headwinds remain. Robinhood’s Q1 2026 crypto revenue dropped 47% year over year to $134 million. Meanwhile, trading volume fell 48% to $24 billion in the same quarter. So Robinhood Chain is also a bet that owning the rails will lift the platform beyond current market cycles.
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