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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
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SBI Holdings was the sole investor in the round, which Gauntlet says will fund expansion into stablecoins, tokenization and traditional capital markets infrastructure. Gauntlet, a DeFi risk management and vault curation firm with $1.42 billion in assets under advisement, closed a $125 million Series C funding round with SBI Holdings, the Japanese financial conglomerate, as the sole investor, Gauntlet said on X Thursday. The firm, founded by chief executive Tarun Chitra, said the capital will fund “building our infrastructure across traditional capital markets, expanding stablecoin coverage, and accelerating new onchain offerings.” Gauntlet said it aims to provide “quantitative guardrails” as institutions move capital onchain. Gauntlet was last valued at $1 billion in 2022, when it raised roughly $24 million in a Series B round. Gauntlet did not disclose a post-money valuation for the Series C
SBI Holdings was the sole investor in the round, which Gauntlet says will fund expansion into stablecoins, tokenization and traditional capital markets infrastructure.
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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 laundering through Tornado Cash complicates fund recovery, highlighting regulatory challenges and potential impacts on DeFi privacy tools.
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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
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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
