Robinhood launches Robinhood Chain mainnet, expands tokenized stock trading to 120+ countries
The rollout adds Robinhood Chain’s live mainnet, broader wallet and DeFi integrations, transferable stock tokens in 120+ countries, expanded EU perpetual futures, and a planned U.K. crypto launch.
Robinhood has launched the public mainnet of Robinhood Chain, an Ethereum Layer 2 network built with Arbitrum technology, while expanding tokenized stock access, European perpetual futures and its broader international crypto push. Eligible users in more than 120 countries can access transferable Stock Tokens through Robinhood Wallet that provide economic exposure to U.S. equities without direct ownership of the underlying shares and can trade them 24/7. Robinhood and partners also launched deeper onchain trading infrastructure, including Rialto’s live spot exchange and integrations from Rabby Wallet, 1inch, 0x, Bitget Wallet and Chainlink. Separately, Robinhood said it is broadening EU perpetual futures with up to 10x leverage across commodities, ETFs and foreign exchange, plans to launch crypto trading in the U.K. soon, and has outlined longer-term AI-driven trading ambitions for retail users.
- Layer 2: A blockchain network built on top of another chain to improve speed, scalability or costs.
- Stock Tokens: Blockchain-based instruments that give economic exposure to stocks without conveying direct ownership of the underlying shares.
- perpetual futures: Derivatives contracts with no expiry date.