Tại sao Robinhood chọn Arbitrum thay vì Layer-1 độc lập? Quy mô cổ phiếu token hóa vượt 2000 mã

【Block Rhythm】Robinhood’s crypto business team recently publicly disclosed an interesting choice — instead of building an independent Layer-1 blockchain, they decided to construct their own Ethereum Layer-2 solution on Arbitrum. The person in charge explained that while this decision seems to take a somewhat unconventional path, the logic is actually quite clear: directly inherit the security guarantees and decentralization characteristics of Ethereum itself, plus leverage the existing liquidity in the EVM ecosystem. This saves a lot of trouble and allows them to focus all efforts on their core business — stock tokenization.

Currently, Robinhood’s own L2 is still in the private testnet phase, but the deployment of tokenized stocks has already begun, already running on Arbitrum One. When the new chain officially launches, these assets and liquidity can seamlessly migrate over with almost zero migration costs.

From a numerical perspective, this business is growing quite rapidly. Initially, there were only about 200 tokenized stocks, and now it has expanded to over 2000, more than a tenfold increase. This growth curve indicates that market acceptance for this type of product is rising, and Robinhood’s layout on this path is indeed quite interesting.