
Robinhood’s Arbitrum-based Robinhood Chain enters public testing to enable tokenized equity and ETF trading with DeFi integration and self-custody ahead of a planned mainnet launch later this year.
Robinhood launched the public testnet for Robinhood Chain, its Ethereum layer-2 network built on Arbitrum, after six months of private testing. The chain will support tokenized real-world assets, including equities and ETFs, enable 24/7 trading with self-custody in Robinhood’s wallet, and allow bridging into DeFi applications. Introduced at Consensus Hong Kong, the platform targets broader institutional and retail adoption of onchain trading. While Ethereum’s base layer advancements reduce the traditional scaling need for L2s, Robinhood emphasizes features beyond speed, aiming to expand tokenization and cross-chain functionality before a full mainnet launch later in 2025.