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<p><a href="https://x.com/RobinhoodCrypto" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">@RobinhoodCrypto</a>'s Ethereum Layer 2 network is only 16 days old, and it is already moving serious money. Robinhood Chain recorded $5.254 billion in weekly DEX volume, a 490% jump week over week, according to DefiLlama data. For a chain that only opened its public mainnet on July 1, 2026, the numbers are difficult to ignore.</p>
<h2 id="uniswap-is-doing-almost-all-of-the-work">Uniswap Is Doing Almost All of the Work</h2>
<p>The volume story is largely a single-protocol story. <a href="https://x.com/Uniswap" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">@Uniswap</a> accounted for $588.93 million of the $594.74 million traded on the chain in the most recent 24-hour window, making every other protocol on Robinhood Chain a rounding error by comparison. That concentration reflects Uniswap's position as the designated public liquidity layer on the network, a role it was given at launch alongside infrastructure partners including Chainlink, BitGo, and Morpho.</p>
<p>Robinhood Chain was built on Arbitrum's Orbit technology and settles to Ethereum as an optimistic rollup. The chain was unveiled at Robinhood's "The World Is Flat" event in London and was positioned from the outset as infrastructure for tokenized real-world assets, offering stock tokens available in more than 120 countries alongside a DeFi lending product called Robinhood Earn, which routes user deposits into a Morpho-powered USDG vault at an estimated 7% annual yield.</p>
<h2 id="strong-flows-but-tvl-lags-the-volume">Strong Flows, But TVL Lags the Volume</h2>
<p>The gap between trading activity and capital locked on the chain is wide. DeFi TVL stands at $220 million against $5.25 billion in weekly volume, with $816 million bridged into the network. The chain itself booked $175,178 in revenue in a single day, a meaningful figure for a network still in its first weeks.</p>
<p>The chain's stated focus on tokenized real-world assets remains a small part of the actual activity. Early volume has been driven heavily by speculation, including a surge in meme coin trading, rather than the tokenized stock use case Robinhood originally advertised. Still, the raw throughput has been enough to push Robinhood Chain into the top tier of DEX networks globally. On July 12, the chain ranked second in 24-hour DEX volume across all networks, trailing only Solana, according to DefiLlama data.</p>
<p>The chain launched with a built-in distribution advantage that most new L2 networks do not have. Robinhood operates a brokerage serving nearly 28 million customers, giving the network a ready-made audience from day one. Whether that early volume converts into sustained DeFi activity and genuine RWA adoption will be the question to watch in the weeks ahead.</p>
<p><strong>Sources</strong><br><a href="https://defillama.com/chain/robinhood-chain" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Robinhood Chain on DefiLlama: TVL, Volume and Revenue</a><br><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/07/01/robinhood-rolls-out-public-blockchain-as-it-expands-deeper-into-crypto" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">CoinDesk: Robinhood Rolls Out Public Blockchain</a><br><a href="https://news.bitcoin.com/robinhood-chain-surges-l2-posts-more-than-3-billion-in-dex-volume-with-7-million-daily-transfers/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Bitcoin.com: Robinhood Chain Surges Past $3 Billion in DEX Volume</a></p>

Robinhood Chain did $5.25B in a week

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