Morning Edition · Saturday, October 10, 2026Published at 1:48 AM EDT · New York

Robinhood Chain daily transactions fall from 10.8 million to 6.2 million since mid-September

Robinhood is still paying network fees on customer swaps, the value secured on its chain fell 8.1% in a week, and the company is studying an ordering system that would let traders pay for priority.

Daily activity on Robinhood Chain, the brokerage's own layer-2 network, has dropped from 10.8 million transactions to 6.2 million since mid-September, a fall of more than 40%. Robinhood still pays network fees on its customers' swaps, so th…