Ankr is excited to announce premium RPC support for Robinhood Chain, giving developers a new way to build on one of the most ambitious blockchain projects in finance.

Robinhood Chain is a permissionless, AI-native Ethereum Layer 2 built for financial services and real-world assets. Built on Arbitrum infrastructure, the network is designed to bring traditional markets, crypto, and DeFi onto shared, programmable rails.

The bigger vision is hard to ignore. Robinhood is building toward a financial system where real-world assets can move onchain, interact with DeFi, trade around the clock, and become building blocks for applications and autonomous financial agents.

With Ankr, developers can now query Robinhood Chain and start building that next generation of financial applications without operating their own nodes.

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What Is Robinhood Chain?

Robinhood Chain is an EVM-compatible Layer 2 designed specifically for onchain finance.

The network is built using Arbitrum technology, settles data to Ethereum, uses ETH for gas, and targets block times of approximately 100 milliseconds. Its permissionless design means developers can deploy smart contracts and build applications using familiar Ethereum tooling.

What makes Robinhood Chain especially interesting, however, is the financial ecosystem Robinhood is assembling around it.

Bringing Real-World Assets Onchain

Robinhood Stock Tokens are the flagship RWA of Robinhood Chain. They are standard ERC-20 tokens providing economic exposure to assets such as US shares and ETFs, making them programmable and composable with onchain applications.

For developers, that opens opportunities to build trading interfaces, lending markets, portfolio tools, structured products, collateral systems, and entirely new financial applications around real-world asset exposure.

Robinhood reported more than 190 Stock Tokens on Robinhood Chain by August 2026, showing how quickly that ecosystem is expanding.

DeFi Meets Mainstream Finance

Robinhood is also pushing DeFi deeper into its broader financial ecosystem.

Its recent Robinhood Chain mainnet launch included integrations spanning decentralized exchanges, lending and borrowing, Stock Tokens, and other financial infrastructure.

The company also introduced Robinhood Earn, its first decentralized lending product available through the Robinhood app.

The direction is clear: Robinhood wants blockchain infrastructure to become part of how everyday financial products work.

Finance Built for AI Agents

Robinhood Chain adds another important ingredient: autonomous financial agents.

Robinhood describes the network itself as AI-native, designed so agents can interact with tokenized real-world assets and perform activities including trading, swapping, lending, and transacting.

At the same time, Robinhood is developing agentic trading across equities, options, and crypto, including infrastructure that allows AI models to access Robinhood tools and execute strategies within user-defined controls.

Put these trends together, and the potential becomes much larger: real-world assets become programmable, DeFi provides the financial primitives, and AI agents become capable of interacting with both.

Robinhood Chain is building infrastructure for that future.

Building on Robinhood Chain With Ankr

Financial applications depend on fast, reliable access to blockchain state. Trading systems, wallets, analytics platforms, DeFi protocols, and agents may constantly query balances, contracts, transactions, and events.

Developers can use Ankr to access Robinhood Chain without deploying, synchronizing, or maintaining their own nodes. Ankr supports the network over HTTPS and WebSocket connections, providing both standard RPC requests and live access to changing onchain state.

For developers building AI-powered financial applications, Ankr also offers Agent RPC, which delivers blockchain data in a more token-efficient, model-friendly format designed to improve agent accuracy while giving agents greater control over their infrastructure.

Together, these tools give developers a straightforward way to start building everything from DeFi and trading applications to autonomous financial agents on Robinhood Chain.

What Can Developers Build on Robinhood Chain?

Robinhood Chain creates a particularly interesting environment for developers building:

• RWA trading and liquidity applications
• Lending and borrowing markets
• Stock Token integrations
• Portfolio and wealth management tools
• AI-powered financial agents
• Automated trading systems
• Wallets and consumer financial apps
• Market data and analytics infrastructure

Because Robinhood Chain is EVM-compatible, developers can bring familiar Ethereum development tools and workflows directly to the network.

Start Building on Robinhood Chain With Ankr

Developers can start querying Robinhood Chain today through Ankr's Web3 API service.

Robinhood Chain is currently available to Ankr Premium and Enterprise users, with both HTTPS and WebSocket support.

To get started, head to the Ankr Robinhood Chain RPC page and log in or create an Ankr account.

From there, you can create your Robinhood Chain RPC connection and receive a dedicated endpoint for your application. You can then plug that endpoint into your existing EVM tooling, wallet, backend, or application and begin reading data or sending transactions.

Robinhood Chain is EVM-compatible, so developers can use familiar Ethereum tools and libraries without learning an entirely new development stack.

Network details: Robinhood Chain uses Chain ID 4663, ETH for gas, and is an Ethereum Layer 2 built with Arbitrum technology with approximately 100ms block times.

Developers can use Ankr to read blocks and transactions, query smart contracts, retrieve logs, submit transactions, subscribe to new activity, and power applications across the Robinhood Chain ecosystem.

Robinhood has spent years expanding access to financial markets. Robinhood Chain takes that mission onchain, creating open infrastructure where assets, applications, DeFi, and eventually autonomous agents can interact.

Now developers can start building on it with Ankr.

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