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Robinhood has taken its blockchain live on public mainnet, capping months of testing with the simultaneous announcement of a suite of decentralized-finance products and a plan to bring crypto trading to residents of the United Kingdom.
The moves mark the brokerage's most direct push yet into on-chain infrastructure, moving it from traditional equities territory into protocol territory.
Public Mainnet Goes Live After Testing Period The mainnet graduation is the headline technical development.
Robinhood ran the chain through a testing phase before opening it to the public — a sequencing that signals the company treated the rollout as an infrastructure build rather than a token-economics event.
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