Bankless · Monday, July 6, 2026
Robinhood's new blockchain is built on Arbitrum Orbit, providing EVM compatibility for easy bridging with other major chains. The company chose Arbitrum for its tooling, low gas fees, and ability to use multiple programming languages, while still relying on Ethereum for overall security.
“The Robinhood chain is an Arbitrum orbit chain. How has your experience working with Arbitrum been? Would you recommend Arbitrum to other institutions building chains on Ethereum?”
“Yeah, absolutely. So we partner with Offchain. They are helping us put the chain in place. They've been awesome to work with, honestly. And I think what we like about Arbitrum is multifold. There is stylus. You can use any kind of language or multiple languages like Rust, for example, to write instead of just being stuck to the one language based on Ethereum. You can also have a priority system that is a bit different. We think the gas fees are pretty low. So far, we've been very happy with the latency.”
“And, you know, being part of EVM where we can easily bridge between all the big chain was also big elements that we were excited about. And we still rely on Ethereum for the overall security and decentralization.”