Robinhood Chain could bring 27M users to Ethereum: Tom Lee

Bitmine Chairman Tom Lee believes Robinhood Chain could become one of 2026’s biggest crypto success stories by connecting the brokerage’s 27 million customers with Ethereum-based financial services. Summary Lee called Robinhood Chain one of crypto’s biggest success stories of 2026 after its July 1 launch. Robinhood’s customer base gives the network a potential market of more than 27 million funded accounts. Robinhood Chain has recorded nearly $9 billion in cumulative DEX volume, although memecoins drove most early trading. The Ethereum Layer 2 uses ETH for transaction fees and settles activity on the Ethereum mainnet. Tom Lee sees Robinhood Chain accelerating ETH adoption Lee, who chairs Ethereum treasury company Bitmine and co-founded Fundstrat, said Robinhood Chain’s reach could take blockchain activity beyond crypto-native users and into mainstream financial markets. “One of the biggest crypto success stories in 2026 is the breakaway success of the Robinhood Chain L2 mainnet on July 1, built on Arbitrum,” Lee said in a Bitmine statement. Lee initially cited more than $1 billion in dollar-denominated trading volume shortly after the launch. He argued that the activity demonstrate...