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Robinhood built a chain to trade stocks. Two weeks after launch we mapped where the money on it actually settles, contract by contract, and the interesting part is not the $5b+ casino on top. The chain itself earned almost nothing. 62.8 million transactions since genesis generated ~480 ETH, ~$860K in total gas, with the average fee at three cents on the busiest day in its history. Of the net revenue left after settlement costs, 10% goes to the Arbitrum ecosystem through the license. Gas is not the business model here. Bridges will tell you even less. Measured inflows since genesis: ~$80m, close to 90% of it ETH, capital coming into the chain for memecoins. Yet Robinhood Earn alone holds ~$128m worth of USDG. The difference is native minting: Paxos mints USDG directly on the chain, so the main capital inflow channel never crosses bridges. USDG shares most of its reserve income with the platforms distributing it, and at current t-bill rates a $120m pool earns roughly $4.6m annually. Lifetime gas revenues are ~$860K and it needed a 10 million transaction day to get there. It mean reverts with the casino. The float accrues no matter if anyone trades, bypassing the Arbitrum split completely. The same shape we've seen in our x402 breakdown. Stocks are a ~$15m market vs $5b of memecoin churning, and still the most interesting part, because most of that volume settles on Rialto and Arcus, which a standard dex dataset won't see. Tracked on a per-contract basis: Arcus became the leader among venues within days of its first on-chain trading, and the largest day of stocks trading was a Saturday, with NYSE closed. Count router swaps without stock registry checks and the stock volume comes out roughly 3x too big, which is how raw this market still is. What we'll watch going forward: stock share recovery from the surge lows, whether Arcus holds the lead, USDG pool growth, and the big question, how many of ~28m app customers will ever show up on this chain. Full breakdown: dune.com/ax1research/ro…

One of the things we've learned from our Robinhood Chain mainnet launch is that ecosystems can grow incredibly quickly when there is exceptional engineering behind them Huge credit to the Robinhood engineering team, and congrats to our friends and partners @arbitrum.




















