Robinhood Pays Rent on Its Own Blockchain

Robinhood Chain, launched on July 1, is built on Arbitrum's Orbit stack and participates in the Arbitrum Expansion Program. This program requires that any chain using Arbitrum's Orbit toolkit and settling outside of Arbitrum One or Nova route 10% of their net protocol revenue back to the Arbitrum ecosystem.

The split is fixed at 8% going to the DAO treasury, controlled by ARB tokenholders through governance, and 2% funding the Arbitrum Developer Guild. The calculation runs on net revenue after operating costs, which means a chain running at thin margins pays little regardless of volume.

Robinhood Chain has passed $2 million in cumulative revenue since its launch, with approximately $200,000 flowing to Arbitrum under this program. This is the first hard confirmation that the mechanism operates as described, not just an aspiration in a governance document.