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Arbitrum Orbit

Arbitrum Orbit is a framework from Offchain Labs for launching custom Layer 2 or Layer 3 rollup or validium chains that settle to Arbitrum or Ethereum.

Known aliases

  • Orbit
  • Orbit stack

Current stories

investConfirmed2 publishers

Robinhood Chain keeps $1 billion in deposits as daily transactions fall 42%

Robinhood Chain's daily transactions have fallen more than 40% since mid-September, barely three months after the network went live. Robinhood paid customers' swap fees through the whole slide, so the money users still keep parked on the chain is the better test of it.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 25%
Operator
Operator 32%
Investor
Investor 43%

Reality

Evidence70
Adoption55
Hype gap+10
Incentives65
Confidence68
investOne report1 publisher

Wazz traces $18.43 million pulled from 53 Robinhood Chain memecoins to one wallet crew

On-chain investigator Wazz ties 53 Robinhood Chain memecoin launches to one crew he says pulled out $18.43 million in about two months. For buyers on the network, that makes the wallet that funded a token's deployer the first thing to check.

Reality

Evidence40
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+15
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence35
investOne report1 publisher

Robinhood Chain's 97% fee collapse reflects both a 96% price drop and a 32% decline in transactions

The gap between a 97% fall in gas income and a 32% fall in transactions on Robinhood Chain is almost entirely price, since the average fee went from about 64 cents to 2.6 cents in roughly two weeks.

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption72
Hype gap+12
Incentives28
Confidence58
investOne report1 publisher

Arbitrum's DAO drew about 35% of July income from a chain Robinhood alone sequences

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.

Reality

Evidence42
Adoption62
Hype gap+12
Incentives58
Confidence48
buildOne report1 publisher

Robinhood's new L2 has one authorised transaction filterer, and its nonce is 6,092

A day of eth_call against Robinhood Chain found three things its documentation omits. The load-bearing one is a live blocklist that also defeats force-inclusion through Ethereum.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption42
Hype gap+12
Incentives32
Confidence48
investOne report1 publisher

Robinhood Chain's user spike is a memecoin story, and HOOD holders own the fee base

A one-day lead in active wallets against a 9x deficit in locked value, with real-world assets at 4% of volume. The chain Robinhood pitched for tokenized stocks is trading something else.

Reality

Evidence32
Adoption52
Hype gap+34
Incentives63
Confidence34
investOne report1 publisher

Robinhood Chain's first month: a stock-token network that traded cats

A month after launch, only five tokens on Robinhood Chain hold a market cap above $10 million, and the ones that got it there were memecoins. Distribution did not create demand for equity tokens.

Reality

Evidence28
Adoption44
Hype gap+32
Incentives58
Confidence30