Arbitrum Gains as Robinhood Chain Revenue Grows.

The post Arbitrum fee sharing Expands Revenue Model with Robinhood Chain appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Arbitrum’s fee-sharing arrangement with Robinhood Chain is more than a billing detail — it’s a structural shift in how the Ethereum scaling network plans to monetize the growing wave of enterprise chains being built on its technology. Key takeaways Arbitrum collects 10% of fees generated on Robinhood Chain and every other Layer 2 built on its Orbit framework. Of that 10%, 8% flows to the ARB tokenholder-controlled treasury and 2% is directed toward development. Arbitrum One, the flagship rollup, sends 100% of its own fees to the treasury — a separate arrangement from the Orbit chain model. Robinhood Chain launched its mainnet on July 1 with tokenized stocks, onchain lending, and agentic trading built into Robinhood’s app. The fee-sharing model applies to any Orbit-based Layer 2, not solely Robinhood Chain, broadening the revenue scope for ARB holders. Arbitrum Fee Sharing on Ro

The post Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev Sells 375,000 HOOD Stock appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev sold 375,000 HOOD shares worth $43.6M under a Rule 10b5-1 plan.  The sale was scheduled months in advance, making it a routine insider sale. Tenev still owns about 48.3M Class B shares worth over $5B, keeping a major stake in Robinhood. Robinhood Markets CEO Vlad Tenev has sold 375,000 shares of Robinhood worth about $43.56 million, according to a newly disclosed SEC Form 4 filing. The transactions were executed on July 6 at a weighted average price of $116.17 per share. They were made under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan adopted on Sept. 5, 2025.  Despite the sale, Tenev remains one of Robinhood’s largest shareholders. He still owns about 48.3 million Class B shares, valued at more than $5 billion at current market prices.  Sale Made Under Rule 10b5-1 Plan The filing shows Tenev first converted 375,000 Class B shares into Class A shares before selling them

The post Arbitrum Gains as Robinhood Chain Boosts Network Activity appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. ARB jumped 7.6% as Robinhood Chain directed 10% of fees to the Arbitrum network. Robinhood Chain DEX volume topped $560M as active users and token launches reached records. RSI and MACD turned bullish as ARB recovered while traders watched key resistance levels. Arbitrum moved back into focus after ARB posted a daily rebound alongside growing activity surrounding Robinhood Chain. The renewed attention followed reports that Robinhood Chain will direct 10% of its chain fees to the Arbitrum network. Meanwhile, Robinhood Chain posted record levels of decentralized exchange activity, while Secret Network proposed migrating from Cosmos to Arbitrum, citing security concerns following a recent bridge exploit. Robinhood Chain Developments Support Network Activity CoinGecko reported that ARB gained 7.6% after news that Robinhood Chain plans to allocate 10% of chain fees to the Arbitrum ecosyst

The post Kalshi Eyes Derivatives Offering Beyond Crypto, Rivaling Robinhood appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. The prediction markets platform, Kalshi, is gaining notable traction as it focuses on expanding its derivatives offering beyond crypto. According to the latest update, the firm is reportedly seeking a regulatory nod to roll out derivatives products linked to real-world assets like gold, foreign exchange, and energy. Notably, a flurry of market watchers also view this update from Kalshi as a potential move to compete with the leading online brokerage platform, Robinhood. For context, the latter has recently accelerated its expansion into multi-asset derivatives, which has caught the eyes of traders. Kalshi Expands Derivatives Foothold Beyond Crypto Kalshi has already made headlines by entering the crypto perpetual futures market, becoming one of the first regulated US platforms to offer the product. Now, the company wants to replicate that strategy across traditional asset cl

The post Arbitrum to Capture 10% of Fees From Robinhood Chain appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Offchain Labs co-founder Steven Goldfeder says every Arbitrum-based Layer 2, not just Arbitrum One, will now route a fee cut back to the ARB treasury. Arbitrum will collect 10% of fees generated on Robinhood Chain and every other Layer 2 built on its technology stack, Offchain Labs co-founder Steven Goldfeder said Wednesday on X. Of that cut, 8% goes to the tokenholder-controlled Arbitrum treasury and 2% funds development, he said. Goldfeder framed the fee-sharing model as a revenue play tied to enterprise growth. “As enterprise adoption is heating up, Arbitrum is well positioned to capture revenue,” he wrote, adding that Arbitrum One, the flagship rollup, sends 100% of its own fees to the treasury. The disclosure clarifies how Arbitrum’s Orbit framework, the toolkit third parties use to launch custom Layer 2 and Layer 3 chains on Arbitrum’s stack, monetizes for ARB holders beyond the bas

The post Robinhood launched a Wall Street layer 2 chain and the market crowned a $150M cat coin first appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Robinhood launched the public mainnet of Robinhood Chain this month, describing it as a permissionless Layer 2 built on Arbitrum for tokenized stocks, real-world assets, DeFi lending, and AI-native finance. One week in, the chain’s loudest retail activity is driven by CASHCAT, a memecoin built on Robinhood’s own discarded “CashCat” name. The token reached nearly $150 million in market cap and over $159 million in 24-hour volume. CASHCAT gained liquidity, price charts, and social attention through Uniswap V3 pools and third-party launch and routing infrastructure, including Noxa.fun and Pump.fun, rather than through Robinhood’s own app-listing process. An explainer graphic outlines six steps showing how CASHCAT gained liquidity, price charts, and trading volume on Robinhood Chain without a formal listing. Behind an unapproved listing Robinhood built

Offchain Labs co-founder Steven Goldfeder says every Arbitrum-based Layer 2, not just Arbitrum One, will now route a fee cut back to the ARB treasury.

The post Robinhood Chain Launch Sets New DeFi Volume Benchmark appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Robinhood Chain’s launch on July 1 did something most new Layer 2 blockchains never manage: it forced people to look twice at the numbers. $570 million in daily volume against just $21.68 million in total value locked — a 26:1 ratio that doesn’t exist anywhere else in decentralized finance at comparable scale. Most established DEXs with years of battle-tested liquidity sit at or below 1:1. Robinhood Chain turned over its entire liquidity base 26 times in a single day. Key takeaways Robinhood Chain launched July 1 as a permissionless Layer 2 on Arbitrum Orbit, with mainnet live from day one. Launch-day volume hit $570 million against $21.68 million TVL — a 26:1 ratio far above typical DEX benchmarks — largely driven by speculative memecoin trading. TVL has since grown past $240 million, mostly driven by Morpho and Ethena. The ARB token surged over 12% after Offchain Labs confirmed 10% of