Robinhood Chain: 17M Transactions in 10 Days

Robinhood Chain delivered 17M transactions, 350K addresses, $250M TVL and over $1B cumulative DEX volume inside its first 10 days while posting 7.6M daily transactions that briefly topped Hyperliquid and approached Base’s 9.2M. The chain leveraged Robinhood’s 28 million funded accounts to bypass wallets, bridges and DeFi onboarding, proving distribution remains the decisive edge. Vlad Tenev extended the thesis to agentic trading, noting that every financial action will eventually run through AI agents and that the same automation already used by institutions can reach retail users at scale.