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Robinhood Chain Crosses $1bn Locked on the Day Its Fees Collapse 97 Percent
The chain set a record for value locked at $1.00bn on Friday, according to DefiLlama, while CoinDesk reported seven-day average fees down 82 percent and per-transaction fees down 97 percent with activity barely moving.
A Bank Builds a 2030 Arbitrum Case on One Robinhood Chain Line Item
Standard Chartered's Geoff Kendrick put Arbitrum at $10 by the end of 2030, roughly seventy times the current price, resting the case on the 10 percent cut Arbitrum takes from chains built on its stack. That line was created by Robinhood Chain in July and has since fallen 93 percent.
Robinhood Chain's Daily Take Fell 83% From Its Peak While Volume Kept Climbing
The chain collected $943,728 on 10 September against $5.44m on 4 September, The Defiant reported, even as decentralised exchange volume rose. Gas per transaction has fallen from $0.43 to $0.077.
One Launchpad Doubled Robinhood Chain's Volume, and the Fee Line Went With It
Pons pushed Robinhood Chain to a record daily fee take and doubled DEX volume, according to The Block. DefiLlama shows the chain now holding $901.0m of total value locked, up 20.1 percent on the week.
A Token Factory Collected Nearly $6m of Fees in a Day, Then Uniswap Labs Bought Its Token
Pons, the memecoin launchpad on Robinhood Chain, out-earned Pump, Hyperliquid and the chain it runs on. Four weeks after putting a rival launchpad on the same network, Uniswap Labs bought PONS.
Robinhood Chain's Licence Fee Was 35% of Arbitrum DAO's July Income
The Arbitrum Foundation's first-half report puts DAO income at $6.19m, and gives $360,000 of Arbitrum Expansion Program licence fees a 35% share of July alone, the first month Robinhood Chain was live on mainnet.
Robinhood Chain Out-Earned Ethereum on Fees, and Almost None of It Came From Stocks
The two-month-old layer 2 recorded 5.52 million transactions and $2.66m of revenue on 30 August, with memecoin trading tools taking most of it. TVL is at a record $726.4m and daily DEX volume at $1.40bn.