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Robinhood isn’t following the Solana/Base trend this time. Instead, it’s building a chain for seasoned retail investors who don’t know the first thing about crypto. 🤔 While everyone else is competing on tech, they’re focusing on “crypto education”—because growing the audience first is what really matters. This “education-led onchain adoption” approach has potential. For traditional finance folks looking to get in, we’ll see whether this move can really bring Web2 customers onchain.

#Crypto #Web3 #Robinhood

📢 Robinhood Has Launched Its Own Blockchain! 🚀

Robinhood has taken another major step in the crypto industry by launching its own blockchain.

But what exactly is a blockchain, and why does it matter? 🤔

🔹 What Is Blockchain?
Blockchain is a digital ledger that records transactions across a network. It helps store and verify transaction records transparently.

🔹 Why Is It Important?
Blockchain technology can support crypto transactions, decentralized applications, digital assets, and financial services.

🔹 Related Cryptocurrencies & Projects:
₿ Bitcoin (BTC)
Ξ Ethereum (ETH)
◎ Solana (SOL)
✕ XRP (XRP)
🔗 Chainlink (LINK)
🟡 BNB (BNB)

💡 Key Takeaway:
As major financial companies explore blockchain technology, understanding how different networks work is becoming increasingly important.

📚 Learn first, research carefully, and understand the risks before investing.

#Crypto #Blockchain #Bitcoin #Ethereum #Solana #BNB #XRP #CryptoEducation #Robinhood

【Airdrop farming opportunity】Arcus, backed by the dYdX founding team and Robinhood, just launched Points Season 1 on October 1. Early users are already keeping an eye on it.

What it is: A decentralized exchange deployed on Robinhood Chain (Robinhood’s own L2), where you can trade 95 tokenized U.S. stocks and 35 futures markets 24/7. Built by dYdX Labs in collaboration with Robinhood Crypto—the same team behind dYdX’s legendary 2021 airdrop.

How to farm points (step by step):
1. Visit the Arcus website and sign up by connecting a wallet, email, or social account (currently unavailable in the U.S., U.K., and Canada).
2. Deposit ETH onto Robinhood Chain (gas is paid in $ETH ; OKX, KuCoin, Gate, and others support direct withdrawals to this chain).
3. Spot trades in stock tokens have zero fees, and both limit orders and futures earn points. Points are distributed every Wednesday, with 250,000 points allocated each week.
4. Share your referral code to earn a cut of your friends’ points, too.

Time window: Season 1 began on October 1 and will run until at least the first half of 2027. You can start farming points now.

A few things to note: The team has explicitly said that points are only a measure of engagement, and no token has been officially announced yet (dYdX has pledged to prioritize existing dYdX users if a token is launched in the future). Don’t assume guaranteed returns. Treat it as a low-stakes task with a chance of a big airdrop, and don’t put too much money into it.

Robinhood is getting into on-chain securities trading itself. How far do you think this narrative can go? #撸毛 #空投 #Robinhood

Just my personal opinion, not investment advice.

Binance Alpha opened a dedicated section for the Robinhood chain yesterday, listing five ecosystem tokens in its first batch: PONS, AI, CASHCAT, UP, and MEME.

Let's compare the data side by side.

First, prices. According to GMGN data (October 14): PONS was trading at around $0.324, up about 16.4% over 24 hours; Artificial Inu was around $0.101, up about 20.7%; and BUN was around $0.0563, up about 17.38%.

Second, the news. Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev posted on X the same day, saying he hoped to attract the best builders to the Robinhood chain and that they were “investing to make it happen.” Soon after, reports emerged of an ecosystem grant program worth over $100 million. For now, this is based on claims from KOLs and has not been officially confirmed, so it should be treated as a rumor.

Third, the fundamentals have not recovered. At the end of September, an on-chain security firm disclosed that a systematic meme-token fraud factory was operating on the Robinhood chain, involving hundreds of tokens and more than $9 million in trading volume over the previous 30 days. Trust in the ecosystem was damaged for a time. This rebound is purely narrative-driven.

Worth noting: $PONS has a built-in buyback mechanism. Protocol revenue is used to buy back and burn tokens on the open market, and around 29% of the original supply has already been burned.

My take: the launch of the dedicated section, combined with a potential grant, has triggered a wave of liquidity events for ecosystem coins in the short term. How long the rebound lasts depends on whether the official builder program actually materializes. If the rumors are disproven or fall through, these low-liquidity micro-cap coins could give back their gains quickly.

Just my personal opinion; this is not investment advice.

#PONS #Robinhood #BinanceAlpha

$HOOD fell 10.95% in one day. It’s at 98.88 now, slammed straight down from 111, with trading volume of 46.8M.

Robinhood is essentially an amplifier of retail investor sentiment. When the market is hot, it rises faster than anything else; when things cool off, it’s the first to get dumped. This drop isn’t me being bearish—the revenue structure of $HOOD speaks for itself: trading volume, options, and crypto are all tied to retail activity. When retail investors pull back, its story falls apart.

But looking at it the other way, does a drop this steep for $HOOD mean retail investors are pulling out? On-chain fee data has indeed been declining lately, and things don’t look great for $COIN either. The two are clearly correlated; both depend on trading for revenue.

My view is straightforward: $HOOD hasn’t bottomed out yet. 98 is just the beginning—we’ll have to see whether trading volume holds up next week. If it doesn’t, a drop below 90 wouldn’t be surprising.

I’m not trying to scare anyone. Stocks driven by sentiment can rise fast and fall just as quickly. Anyone who bought at the top must be feeling pretty miserable right now...

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$HOOD 102.27, down 8.22% in 24h, plunging from 111.92 to 101.92, with a trading volume of 33.6M. Earnings aren't due until October 27, but the stock is already selling off in anticipation.

Robinhood's revenue has long been about more than just commissions; crypto trading and options make up a sizable share. When crypto trading volume dries up, its own trading volume withers too, and the stock naturally takes a hit. From the TradFi perspective, this drop looks like a reshuffling in the fintech sector; from the crypto perspective, it's risk appetite pulling back. Two groups are selling the same thing for different reasons, with the same result.

Some are still comparing it with $MS and debating which is the better buy. One manages other people's money; the other bets on other people's trading. Different cycles, different fates.

A stock like $HOOD is an amplifier in a bull market and a truth-revealer in a bear market. At 102, it's neither cheap nor expensive. It all comes down to whether retail investors will still want to open that app over the next two quarters.

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AMC’s CEO went straight at Robinhood: Are your offshore stock tokens actually complying with SEC rules? That’s a tough question. Tokenized stocks are already in a regulatory gray area, and now traditional heavyweights are starting to ask questions—meaning this issue is about to come under the spotlight. Can Robinhood afford to be vague?

$BTC $ETH #Robinhood #SEC #Tokenized

Robinhood and Coinbase both moved this week on the same theme: tokenized stocks.

Robinhood closed Friday at $109.02 (+1.88%) after saying it's exploring a tokenized ETF with T. Rowe Price, a $1.9T asset manager, on Robinhood Chain. Coinbase has run from the $170s into the $190s over the past few weeks, with Goldman lifting its target to $219 and Needham to $200.

The bigger number sits underneath both stocks. Binance Research says tokenized stocks hit 11% of DEX trading volume in September, closing in on meme coins' 17%. The category crossed $3B in market cap in late September, up from near zero a year ago. BNB Chain and Robinhood Chain now handle 88.2% of tracked tokenized-equity DEX volume, versus 2.3% in June.

The part that's actually new: tokens like bStocks trade 24/7. You can react to a headline on a Sunday night instead of waiting for Monday's open. That loop between onchain tokens and the brokerage's real share price barely existed a year ago.

This followed the SEC granting temporary relief in September for permissioned tokenized stock trading, after the CLARITY Act stalled in the Senate. The exemption is capped and expires in five years unless replaced.

Not financial advice, just a genuinely new market structure worth watching.

Would you want your whole portfolio tradeable 24/7, or does the market close actually protect you? And if a tokenized fund trades differently from the real share overnight, which price do you trust?

Full story: https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/24-7-tokenized-equity-boom-weekend-stock-trading

#TokenizedStocks #Robinhood #Coinbase

Is “pay-to-cut-in-line” about to become part of public-chain rules?

According to a report by CoinDesk on October 9, citing people familiar with the matter, Robinhood Chain is evaluating Arbitrum’s new transaction-ordering technology, “Priority Gas Auctions,” which lets traders pay higher fees to have their transactions processed ahead of others.

Put simply, it’s “pay to cut in line”: if you can afford it, your transaction gets the fast lane.

A few key points are worth unpacking:

1️⃣ The technology’s background
Arbitrum previously had a paid ordering mechanism called Timeboost, which gave paying users a 200-millisecond head start in transaction ordering. But on September 24, Arbitrum replaced Timeboost with a new model, Priority Gas Auctions—shifting from a “fixed head start” to an auction where the highest bidder wins. Robinhood Chain, meanwhile, has always used first-come, first-served ordering and never even adopted Timeboost, so it is evaluating the newer model directly.

2️⃣ Why Robinhood?
Robinhood Chain is an Ethereum-compatible L2 launched in July this year, focused on real-world assets such as tokenized stocks. Its TVL has already climbed into the top ten. And remember, Robinhood’s traditional brokerage business makes money through “payment for order flow”—market makers pay to acquire customer orders from brokerages. Now, that same “pay for priority” logic may be moving onto the blockchain, essentially unchanged.

3️⃣ Fairness or privilege?
Supporters say that auctioning off ordering rights in the open is more transparent than covert front-running and MEV sandwich attacks, and institutions at least won’t have to privately curry favor with transaction sequencers anymore. Critics worry that ordinary retail trades will always end up behind paying institutions, and that the touted “fairness on-chain” of tokenized stocks could turn into “the highest bidder gets filled first.” In a market like tokenized assets, where compliance and fairness are especially important, this controversy will only be magnified.

Robinhood has declined to comment on the evaluation for now. The report comes from anonymous sources familiar with the matter, and it remains unclear whether the proposal will ultimately be implemented. But the significance of this as a bellwether is clear: as tokenized stocks grow in scale, “execution design” for tokenized asset chains is becoming a new battleground—who gets filled first, and why, may ultimately be decided by money.

If paid ordering becomes the norm, Satoshi-style fairness of “first come, first served” may really have to give way to the auction house.

#Robinhood #MEV #Arbitrum
$ARB $ETH

The above does not constitute investment advice. DYOR; trading involves risk.

🎯 The buzz around Robinhood Chain faded a little too fast

📰 Robinhood’s self-built chain saw daily active users drop 42%, and daily transactions fall from 10.8 million to 6.2 million. Weekly spot trading volume shrank 21%, while deposits are still holding at $1 billion.

💬 Honestly, that’s an awkward trend for a chain that only launched in July. Fees are subsidized through the end of the year, and incentives are propping up the ecosystem. The buzz is real, but we’ll have to wait another couple of quarters to see if users stick around.

🏷️ #Robinhood #生态数据 #Layer2 #OnchainActivity

🚨 A shield for retail investors—or Wall Street’s harvesting machine? Robinhood is actually bringing “paid priority access” on-chain!

CoinDesk’s latest scoop: Robinhood Chain is evaluating technology that would give paying traders “priority transaction inclusion”—a mechanism directly comparable to Arbitrum’s recently launched priority gas auction (PGA).

As a veteran trader, I smell an extremely dangerous whiff of capital:
1️⃣【Wall Street’s old order is in its DNA】: Robinhood got its start with market-maker rebates (PFOF), and now it plans to openly legitimize the privileges of high-frequency quant traders on-chain;
2️⃣【Liquidity stratification hits hard】: Once paying users can jump the queue, institutions and arbitrage bots will ruthlessly sandwich ordinary limit orders, leaving retail traders highly vulnerable to massive slippage during extreme market conditions;
3️⃣【Rewriting the L2 narrative】: Network tokens won’t just be for gas—they’ll become part of a bidding war for blockspace. The underlying ecosystem may become more profitable, but where does that leave decentralized fairness?

As the broader market sees low-volume trading near the highs above 80,000, the giants are already stepping up their efforts to carve up the on-chain liquidity “money-printing machine.”

Would you pay a “cut-in-line fee” to avoid getting sandwiched—or firmly oppose this kind of centralized dominance? Share your thoughts in the comments!

$BTC $ETH $BNB
#币安广场 #交易思路 #以太坊L2 #Robinhood

🚨 Has the retail trading hub gone completely quiet? Robinhood’s on-chain trading volume has plunged by over 40%!

⚡ The platform is pouring money into gas fee subsidies, but still can’t revive trading enthusiasm. Daily transactions have been cut in half, dropping from 10.8 million to just 6.2 million!

This on-chain cooldown is a wake-up call for the entire market:
1️⃣【Subsidy model fails】: When even zero-cost transactions can’t rouse retail traders, it shows that market capital has been heavily depleted and trading fatigue is spreading;
2️⃣【Worsening liquidity structure】: The broader market is currently range-bound, but there’s a serious lack of fresh capital from outside. Retail investors exiting means less buying power to catch falling prices, while holdings are being passively concentrated among a handful of whales. The market is entering an extremely fragile phase of fighting over existing capital.

Subsidies can’t buy a bull market. Prosperity without genuine new capital is ultimately just a paper tiger.

Do you think the sharp drop in retail activity signals that the broader market has peaked, or is this the calm before the dawn after a brutal shakeout? Share your thoughts in the comments!

$BTC $ETH #Robinhood #币安广场 #链上数据 #TradingIdeas

🚨 A new development in the blockchain world!

According to a CoinDesk report published on October 10, 2026, the slowdown on the Robinhood Chain network extended beyond transaction fees, with the number of transactions down by more than 40%, according to the report.

📊 Why is this worth following? • Network activity is an important indicator of real-world usage. • A decline in transactions alone doesn’t mean the project has failed. • It’s important to distinguish between a temporary dip in activity and persistently weak demand.

💬 Do you measure the success of a crypto project by its token price, or by the number of actual users and transactions?

#Robinhood #Blockchain #Crypto #Layer2 #Web3

Robinhood Chain’s Daily Transactions Plunge 40%, Raising Concerns About $HOOD Ecosystem Activity

According to CoinDesk, daily transactions on Robinhood Chain have fallen from 10.8 million in mid-September to 6.2 million, a decline of more than 40%. This change comes as Robinhood continues to pay related fees, suggesting that the contraction in on-chain activity is not driven solely by costs, but may point to deeper issues with ecosystem activity.

The sharp drop in transaction volume directly reflects cooling retail participation and on-chain economic activity. For $HOOD , part of its valuation case rests on platform activity and user engagement, so shrinking on-chain transaction volumes could weaken that support. Fundamentally, transaction volume is one of the core indicators of blockchain network health, and a sustained decline could affect developer confidence and the sustainability of ecosystem projects.

Market reactions may be mixed. Some investors may view the decline as a seasonal fluctuation or a reflection of a broader market downturn, expecting transaction volume to recover naturally as markets rebound. However, if subsequent data fails to stabilize, it could raise doubts about Robinhood Chain’s long-term competitiveness and put pressure on $HOOD ’s share price. It remains to be seen whether this decline is temporary or a structural trend; more on-chain data is needed to confirm.

On the other hand, lower transaction volume may be influenced by macroeconomic sentiment, seasonal factors, or competitor activity, and may not be entirely attributable to problems with Robinhood Chain itself. In addition, as a prominent traditional brokerage expanding into crypto, Robinhood still benefits from a degree of resilience through its user base and brand recognition. Short-term data fluctuations may not necessarily alter the long-term trend.

Key things to watch next are whether transaction volume on Robinhood Chain stabilizes over the coming week, and whether new ecosystem projects or incentive programs are introduced to boost activity. From a trading perspective, if $HOOD ’s share price reacts mildly to the data, it may indicate that the market has already priced in some of the negative news. A pronounced pullback, however, would warrant caution about further deterioration in sentiment.

$HOOD #Robinhood #CryptoMarket

The above is a summary of information and personal analysis, and does not constitute investment advice.
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Robinhood’s on-chain activity halved in a week

- Daily transactions fell to 6.2 million, down 42% from 10.8 million in mid-September
- Weekly DEX trading volume was $7.45 billion, down 21%; average daily fee revenue was $65,000, down 39% for the week

Deposits are still at $1.04 billion, with $1.1 billion in stablecoins. The money hasn’t left, but nobody’s trading anymore. Incentives have been extended through December 31, with no fees on swaps over $0.50. Do you think this is a quiet market grinding through a bottom, or a sign that it’s all winding down?

$BTC $ETH $SOL
#Robinhood #On-chainData

On-chain activity on Robinhood Chain has cooled noticeably. According to CoinDesk data, the chain’s daily transaction volume has fallen from 10.8 million in mid-September to 6.2 million, a drop of more than 40%. While transaction volumes have shrunk, Robinhood is still fronting network fees for users’ swaps. With activity continuing to decline, the sustainability of its subsidy model is being put to the test.
(Source: CoinDesk)
⚠️Risk warning: The above is shared for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice. Investing involves risk; please exercise caution.
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