Robinhood Chain sees $10B in stock token trading volume, up 672%

Robinhood Chain launched on July 1, 2026, and it has already done something most DeFi projects spend years chasing: genuine, sustained trading volume. The platform’s Stock Tokens, ERC-20 representations of US equities and ETFs traded onchain, generated $9.7 billion in volume over the past 30 days, with a single seven-day window alone accounting for $4.33 billion of that figure. What Robinhood Chain actually is The chain runs on Arbitrum Orbit technology, making it an Ethereum Layer-2 with Robinhood’s branding and infrastructure layered on top. The core product is Stock Tokens: more than 190 assets available depending on jurisdiction, each backed 1:1 by underlying securities held in custody. Nvidia, GameStop, Apple, and SpaceX are among the most actively traded, with multiple names regularly posting daily volumes above $500K to $1M. The tokens offer economic exposure to stock price movements, though they do not grant legal ownership or voting rights in the underlying companies, and they are not available to US persons. Roughly 74% of all Stock Token trading happens outside NYSE hours, which means the platform is capturing demand that conventional brokers structurally cannot serve. T...