What is Robin Hood chain?
Robin Hood chain is an Ethereum Layer-2 blockchain built by Robinhood on the Arbitrum stack, designed for tokenized real-world assets and financial services. As of July 2026, it had flipped Base in user operations per second, per David Hoffman.
Release history
- Jul 2026 - David Hoffman reported that Robin Hood chain usage flipped Base on July 10th, with 117 user operations per second versus 93 on Base.
- Jul 2026 - Ryan Sean Adams suggested that a critical bug in Robin Hood chain should be treated as an Ethereum vulnerability, triggering an L1 fork.
In the discourse
Attributed discussion of Robin Hood chain.
Ethereum earns only 0.15% of L2 revenue for data availability, roughly $1,200 out of $816,000 generated by Robin Hood chain via Arbitrum.
“Ethereum gets 0.15% for data availability.”David Hoffman · 17 Jul 2026
Robin Hood chain, built on Arbitrum, surpassed Base in user operations per second and is driving ETH price sentiment, making it a key L2 to monitor in 2026.
“Robin Hood chain usage flipped base on July 10th, so six days ago from the time of recording, user operations per second, that's like a metric, refined metric for measuring usage basically, from layer 2B, 117 user operations per second on Robin Hood chain, where just 93 on base.”David Hoffman · 17 Jul 2026
Robin Hood chain recorded 117 user operations per second vs. Base's 93 on July 10, 2026, surpassing Base on that refined usage metric.
“Robin Hood chain usage flipped base on July 10th, so six days ago from the time of recording, user operations per second, that's like a metric, refined metric for measuring usage basically, from layer 2B, 117 user operations per second on Robin Hood chain, where just 93 on base.”David Hoffman · 17 Jul 2026
A proposal argues Ethereum should treat critical bugs in its largest L2s (Arbitrum, Base, Robin Hood chain) as L1 vulnerabilities triggering an L1 fork, in exchange for those L2s paying 10 to 20% rent to ETH holders.
“He says Ethereum should adopt its largest roll-ups in the sense that a critical bug in arbitum base or Robin Hood chain should be treated as an Ethereum vulnerability and trigger an L1 fork just like an L1 bug would.”Ryan Sean Adams · 17 Jul 2026