Morning Edition · Sunday, July 12, 2026Published at 1:29 AM EDT · New York
Robinhood's New Layer-2 Processes 7.6 Million Daily Transactions, Narrowing the Gap With Base
Value secured on Robinhood Chain rose nearly 400 percent in a week to about 642 million dollars, as the brokerage also adds artificial-intelligence trading agents to its crypto operations.
Robinhood Chain, the brokerage's own Ethereum layer-2 network, processed 7.6 million daily transactions just 11 days after its mainnet launch, according to on-chain data cited by crypto.news, narrowing the distance to Coinbase's Base among…
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