Robinhood Chain Speeds Up Ethereum Transactions with Layer 2 Network
The Robinhood Chain, an Ethereum Layer 2 network built on Arbitrum technology, launched its public mainnet on July 1, 2026. This new chain is designed to provide faster and more cost-effective transactions for financial applications targeting retail users.
With 100-millisecond block times and integrated DeFi protocols, the Robinhood Chain achieves sub-second soft confirmations through Arbitrum's optimistic rollup architecture. The chain settles compressed transaction batches back to Ethereum for final security, inheriting Ethereum's security guarantees while operating at significantly higher throughput.
Roughly 26 transactions per second are processed on Ethereum's base layer, whereas the Robinhood Chain processes over 200 million transactions within its first month of operation, reaching nearly $800 million in total value locked. Transaction costs on the Robinhood Chain are fractions of a cent through Layer 2 batch processing.
Unlike Ethereum, which prioritizes decentralization and censorship resistance above raw speed, the Robinhood Chain focuses on speed and low cost for financial applications targeting retail users. It supports tokenized U.S. equities, including NVDA, GOOG, and AAPL, as well as the USDG stablecoin through Robinhood Earn.