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Robinhood Chain Launches on Mainnet With Tokenized Stocks, Perps, and Uniswap on Day One

7/5/2026

Robinhood Chain, a Layer 2 network built on Arbitrum's technology stack, has gone live on public mainnet, bundling 24/7 tokenized stocks, perpetuals trading through a protocol called Lighter, and Uniswap as a day-one decentralized exchange partner.

Plans for crypto agentic trading are also listed among the chain's stated ambitions.

The launch marks Robinhood's direct push into on-chain financial infrastructure, well past its origins as a commission-free brokerage app.

What Robinhood Chain Actually Is A Layer 2 is a secondary network that processes transactions off a base chain — in this case built using Arbitrum's established rollup technology — before settling them on Ethereum.

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