Robinhood Chain, a Layer 2 built on Arbitrum tech, launches on mainnet with tokenized 24/7 stocks, Lighter perpetuals, and planned AI trading agents.
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Robinhood Chain, a Layer 2 built using Arbitrum's technology stack, has launched on public mainnet with Uniswap as a day-one partner. The platform offers 24/7 trading of tokenized stocks available across 120 or more countries alongside perpetual futures contracts integrated through Lighter.
The infrastructure combines equities tokenization with decentralized finance mechanics, extending market access beyond traditional hours and geographic boundaries. Perpetual futures functionality arrives via Lighter integration, enabling derivatives trading on the same chain. The chain's design reflects a convergence between traditional financial assets and crypto trading infrastructure on a shared settlement layer.
Robinhood has also signaled plans to introduce crypto agentic trading on the platform, though details on deployment timeline and specific functionality remain unspecified. The degree to which this Layer 2 adoption reaches beyond existing Robinhood users or crypto-native traders is not yet established, and the regulatory pathway for tokenized equities across the stated geographies has not been addressed.