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Arbitrum is an Ethereum Layer-2 scaling suite, including Arbitrum One, Nova, and Orbit chains, governed by the Arbitrum DAO and powered by its ARB token.
Robinhood Chain's 30-day DEX volume of $38.62 billion passed Base's $30.46 billion, according to Defillama data. Its third-quarter results will take in a September when Robinhood covered gas on some swaps, and none of the slower October.
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Crypto's week has U.S. CPI due Oct 14 at a forecast 3.6% and PPI on Oct 15 at 5.3%, with $116.5 million of token unlocks. The 1.7-point gap between them is down from 2.0 on the prior readings, ahead of a Fed meeting where rates are expected to hold.
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Solana accounts for $3.32 billion of the $3.4 billion in weekly tokenized stock DEX volume, Crypto Briefing reported. Robinhood Chain's own early daily average of $29.7 million works out to about $208 million a week, a small slice of the total.
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Robinhood is exploring a Stock Token with T. Rowe Price, the $1.9 trillion asset manager, that would track an actively managed ETF. It would be Robinhood's first token on a fund whose holdings a manager picks, and board approval, regulatory clearance and filings still stand between the talks and anything an allocator can buy.
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Wallets holding tokenized commodities rose to 452,931 from about 126,000 a year ago, according to rwa.xyz data. Most of the new arrivals are opening small accounts on cheaper chains, while about 95% of the sector's $5.16 billion stays on Ethereum.
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Robinhood has added $25 million of bitcoin to its balance sheet, crypto chief Johann Kerbrat said, a stake worth about 0.025% of its market value. The company's larger tie to the asset runs through trading, where August crypto volume reached $17.5 billion.
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Arbitrum joined Paxos's Global Dollar Network to share USDG reserve income, with a DAO proposal to add 100 million ARB in incentives. It takes no direct cut of the USDC that is about 60% of its $3.8 billion in stablecoins, so the payoff depends on USDG winning that float.
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Abstract, the Igloo-backed Ethereum layer-2, is shutting down after its secured value fell more than 90% from a peak above $291 million. Its closure comes weeks after Blast's, and holders on smaller layer-2 chains now face fixed dates to move their funds before the bridges close.
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Virtuals Protocol opened a closed iOS beta whose personal AI holds a wallet and runs standing trade rules, such as a $1,000 leveraged Ether position. The agent acts without asking before each trade, so the beta tests whether retail users will hand standing orders to a chat app.
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Ostium is rebuilding its trading stack around Gateway, three months after an attacker holding legitimate oracle-signer credentials drained $23.75 million. The new system has to keep execution fast enough for institutional hedging and also show that stolen credentials can no longer push a false price through.
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Standard Chartered has initiated coverage on seven DeFi and onchain infrastructure projects since mid-June, with Ethena the latest. Each has its own revenue and token model, so clients still need a single yardstick to weigh the seven against each other.
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Geoff Kendrick's note puts ARB at $10 by 2030 from about $0.15, and the Expansion Program revenue behind that call splits 8% to the Arbitrum DAO treasury and 2% to a developer guild. A holder's claim on it runs through what the DAO spends.
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Cloudflare is now charging for web resources in stablecoins. The product director running that effort says machine payments will eventually need throughput beyond what any existing blockchain can supply.
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The SEC published its Innovation Exemption for digital securities this week. The part that binds is a requirement that a tokenized NMS stock carry the same dividends, votes and liquidation rights as the share.
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Dragonfly's Haseeb Qureshi and Uniswap's Hayden Adams say cheaper blockspace explains the falling fee line, and on the day's DefiLlama figures the chain took $403,000 while its traders paid Uniswap roughly twenty times that.
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Uniswap moved $70.6 billion in 30 days, more than its three nearest rivals combined. About $26 billion of that arrived on Robinhood Chain, ahead of the $23 billion Ethereum contributed, against a January-to-July average of $51.1 billion a month.
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Robinhood Chain sent roughly $360,000 to the Arbitrum DAO in its first mainnet month. At an 8% share that implies about $4.5m of net protocol revenue, from a chain whose sequencer Robinhood runs by itself.
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Devin Ryan lifted his Robinhood target to $165 on the assumption that its Layer-2 earns a million dollars a day in 2027, roughly a quarter of the chain's best days so far, with Arbitrum keeping a tenth of the gross.
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The Flashblocks cadence and the canonical block time are different numbers, and Base's cheaper-AA figure is measured on one operation on a network built to be thrown away. ERC-8403 moves account recovery into public state.
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Event contracts brought in $156m last quarter on 13.6 billion tickets, which is the arithmetic behind Robinhood buying equity in a contract supplier as well as listing its markets. OG.com's contracts go live on September 8.
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