What is Robinhood Chain?
Robinhood Chain opened its public mainnet on July 1, 2026, announced at Robinhood's keynote in London. It is a permissionless Ethereum layer 2 built on Arbitrum's Orbit stack: anyone can deploy contracts, gas is paid in ETH rather than a separate token and blocks confirm in about a tenth of a second. Robinhood built the network for tokenized real-world assets and for markets that do not keep exchange hours, and demand showed early: the public testnet processed four million transactions in its first week, according to The Block. The ecosystem arrived with the launch rather than after it, with Uniswap deploying an automated market maker and Chainlink providing the oracle layer from day one. "As one of the largest US retail crypto platforms enters the RWA market, efficient routing, deep liquidity and reliable execution become increasingly important," 1inch co-founder Sergej Kunz said at the launch.
- Public mainnet launch
- July 1, 2026
- Architecture
- Ethereum layer 2 on Arbitrum's Orbit stack
- Gas token
- ETH, with no separate network token
- Block time
- About 100 milliseconds
- Block explorer
- robinhoodchain.blockscout.com
What are tokenized real-world assets?
A tokenized real-world asset (RWA) is an on-chain token whose value tracks something that exists off-chain: a listed stock, a bond, a commodity or a claim on one. Putting the token on a blockchain changes how it moves. A share bought through a broker settles the next business day; a tokenized version settles in the next block. Positions sit in your own wallet rather than an account, and markets are no longer tied to an opening bell. The catch has always been liquidity: a tokenized stock is only useful if you can actually swap it, at a fair rate, when you want to.
What can you swap on Robinhood Chain?
The flagship assets are Stock Tokens: tokenized versions of listed US equities such as Nvidia, Apple and Alphabet. They track the price of the underlying share without granting ownership of the share itself, and Robinhood makes them available to eligible users in more than 120 countries through Robinhood Wallet. Around them sits the usual on-chain lineup: ETH and wrapped ETH, stablecoins such as USDG (Global Dollar) and the DeFi tokens that ecosystem projects deploy. In practice one wallet can move between a tokenized stock, a stablecoin and ETH without leaving the network. The lineup grows as issuers and projects deploy, and the token picker on the swap form shows what is currently swappable there.
How do you swap on Robinhood Chain with 1inch?
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Connect and pick the network
Open the swap form, connect your wallet and select Robinhood Chain in the network list. Your wallet prompts you to add the network the first time, with the details filled in for you.
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Get ETH for gas
Fees on the network are paid in ETH. The direct route is a cross-chain swap: pay with a token you already hold on another network and receive ETH on Robinhood Chain.
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Choose the pair and review
Pick the token you pay with and the token you receive, then check the rate and the minimum received before confirming.
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Confirm in your wallet
Sign the transaction and watch it settle. Blocks confirm in well under a second, and the Robinhood Chain explorer shows the result.
Moving funds in and out works the same way: cross-chain swaps connect Robinhood Chain with 13+ supported networks in a single transaction, with no manual bridge step. That matters on a young network, because you do not have to wait for dedicated bridge tooling or juggle wrapped tokens to get in. Read how cross-chain swaps work.
Do you need a Robinhood account to swap?
No. Robinhood Chain is permissionless, so it works like any other public network: a self-custody wallet and a little ETH for gas are enough. Robinhood's own products, such as Stock Tokens in Robinhood Wallet, follow Robinhood's eligibility rules, but the network itself is open. The 1inch dApp connects with the wallet you already use, and what you swap stays in your custody the whole time.
What does a layer 2 change for swapping?
A layer 2 runs its own fast blocks and periodically posts compressed batches of activity back to Ethereum, so it borrows Ethereum's security without charging Ethereum's gas prices for every swap. On Robinhood Chain the practical effects are low fees and confirmations you barely notice: with blocks arriving about every 100 milliseconds, the rate you accept and the rate you settle at are rarely far apart. For tokenized stocks, where prices move all day, that gap matters more than it does for slower assets. Low fees also change what is worth doing at all: a swap too small to justify mainnet gas is routine on a layer 2.
Why does swap infrastructure matter for tokenized assets?
Tokenizing an asset does not make it easy to swap. Liquidity for real-world assets is spread across issuers, venues and market makers, so no single pool shows the whole market. 1inch aggregates that liquidity and routes each order across it, with competitive rates, aggregated across 300+ sources. On a young network liquidity builds venue by venue, so routing across everything available matters more, not less. 1inch has supported the network since launch day: eligible users swap on Robinhood Chain in the 1inch dApp and 1inch Wallet, and third-party apps can add the same routing through the 1inch Swap API on 1inch Business. The launch announcement has the full story.
Common questions
Yes. The network has no separate gas token: fees are paid in ETH and stay low because activity settles on a layer 2 that posts compressed batches back to Ethereum.
Eligible users can swap tokenized real-world assets on Robinhood Chain through the 1inch dApp and 1inch Wallet. Availability depends on your region, and the app checks eligibility before offering the swap.
Use a cross-chain swap: pay with a token on any of the 13+ supported networks and receive the token you want on Robinhood Chain in one transaction. Receiving ETH first is the practical start, since it covers your gas from day one.
The network produces blocks around the clock, and crypto pairs swap at any time. Stock Tokens follow the issuer's trading windows, which extend well beyond exchange hours; the 1inch launch announcement describes swapping them anytime during the work week.
USDG, called Global Dollar, is a US dollar stablecoin that circulates on Robinhood Chain. On the 1inch swap form it is one of the network's default pair tokens, which makes it a common quote asset for pricing swaps there.
Curious what you are paying when a block includes your swap? Read how gas fees work, or browse every guide on the learn hub.
Swap on Robinhood Chain
Connect your wallet, pick the pair and swap from self-custody, with routing across the network's liquidity.
