Robinhood Chain reaches 200M transactions in 30 days, outpacing Base at its peak

Robinhood’s Ethereum Layer-2 network has crossed 200 million cumulative transactions roughly one month after its July 1 mainnet launch, a pace that puts it among the fastest-growing rollups ever deployed. To put that in perspective, the chain hit 38.7 million transactions in its first 10 days alone. Daily transaction counts have peaked between 10 million and 13.3 million, volumes that at times have eclipsed Base, Coinbase’s own Layer-2 network. What’s actually happening on the chain Robinhood Chain is built on Arbitrum’s infrastructure, uses ETH as its gas token, and runs block times of roughly 0.1 seconds. Sub-second finality is what makes it practical to trade tokenized real-world assets like US stocks on-chain without the lag that plagues slower networks. The platform has landed integrations with several DeFi protocols. Uniswap provides automated market-making infrastructure. Chainlink supplies oracle data feeds. Alchemy handles developer tooling. Total Value Locked has climbed to somewhere between $300 million and $800 million since launch. The chain’s stablecoin supply continues to set records, which typically signals real usage rather than speculative inflows, since stablecoi...