Robinhood Chain launches 24/7 stock tokens, Lighter perpetuals

Robinhood launched the Robinhood Chain mainnet in London during a livestream at the Old Royal Naval College and announced new products including 24/7 Stock Tokens, access to perpetual futures via Lighter and plans for AI-driven agentic crypto trading.

Robinhood Chain is an Ethereum Layer 2 built with Arbitrum technology. The company described the network as permissionless and AI-native, designed to support tokenized real-world assets. The mainnet follows a public testnet that ran in February and includes integrations with Uniswap, Pleiades, Alchemy, BitGo and Chainlink, along with built-in lending and borrowing primitives.

The new Stock Tokens are tokenized debt securities issued by Robinhood Assets (Jersey) Limited. They provide economic exposure to underlying equities but do not confer legal or beneficial ownership of those stocks. Eligible users in more than 120 countries can access Stock Tokens through the Robinhood Wallet. Spot trading will be available on decentralized exchanges including Uniswap, Rialto, Lighter, Arcus and 1inch. Stock Tokens are not available to U.S. persons and face restrictions in jurisdictions such as Canada, the U.K., Switzerland and the UAE. Robinhood’s earlier tokenized U.S. equities, launched in June 2025, will be renamed Classic Stock Tokens and remain in the Robinhood Europe app.

Robinhood also added access to perpetual futures through Lighter, an Ethereum-based decentralized exchange. Lighter, which raised $68 million last year at a $1.5 billion valuation, has committed $11 million in native LIT tokens to the Robinhood community. Eligible users earn points on perpetual trades that convert into LIT tokens at twice the rate when trading through the Robinhood Wallet compared with Lighter’s web app. Robinhood plans a phased, around-the-clock rollout of commodity, ETF and FX perpetuals for eligible European users, listing products such as gold, silver, QQQ, EUR/USD, WTI and Brent crude with leverage up to 10x. The product is unavailable in several jurisdictions, including the U.K., U.S., Canada, Switzerland, the UAE and Singapore.

On automated trading, Robinhood plans to extend Agentic Accounts to crypto for eligible U.S. users at no additional cost. Traders will be able to connect an AI model to Robinhood’s Trading MCP to scan markets and run strategies while users set capital limits and safety guardrails. Agentic Trading for equities and options began rolling out last month.

Robinhood also rolled out Robinhood Earn in the main app for eligible U.S. users. The product lets users lend USDG stablecoins from a self-custody wallet at an estimated 7% APY, with infrastructure provided by Morpho and support from partners such as Steakhouse, Ethena, Spark and Maple. Insurance for covered cyber or smart contract losses is sourced from Lloyd’s of London and RELM.

Johann Kerbrat, Robinhood’s SVP and general manager of Crypto and International, wrote in a company statement, “We're bringing the best of traditional finance and DeFi together, and in doing so, expanding financial ownership to every corner of the globe.”

Robinhood said it serves nearly 28 million customers across 38 countries. The company recently closed its $180 million acquisition of WonderFi and said Robinhood Singapore received a capital markets services licence from the Monetary Authority of Singapore. The expansion comes after a staff reduction of about 10% and weaker crypto results: crypto revenue fell 47% year-over-year to $134 million and native-app crypto trading volume dropped 48% to $24 billion. The firm’s U.K. crypto product currently operates through Bitstamp by Robinhood, with broader integration dependent on regulatory clarity.