Robinhood co-founder: Aiming to become the preferred public chain for RWA and Meme sectors.

BlockBeats news, November 6 — Robinhood co-founder and CEO Vlad Tenev hosted an approximately 45-minute public AMA on the X platform under the theme "Let's talk Robinhood Chain," engaging directly with developers and the community to share the latest progress and long-term vision of Robinhood Chain.

During the AMA, Vlad Tenev explicitly stated that stock tokens are now live on Robinhood Chain and open for developers to build on, while emphasizing that "this is just the beginning, and more will be shared soon." He noted that stock tokens are unique foundational building blocks on-chain and are fully permissionless, allowing anyone to build around them; AI Agents can already interact directly with stock tokens.

Speaking on why they chose to build their own public chain, Vlad said that after deep research into the existing ecosystem, the team concluded that no existing chain could fully meet their specific needs. The goal of Robinhood Chain is to become the preferred chain for real-world assets (RWA) and the Meme space. He further emphasized that RWA and crypto assets are converging and will ultimately become one, which will bring order-of-magnitude growth opportunities to the entire sector.

On the product side, Vlad revealed that Robinhood has begun displaying on-chain content across multiple product surfaces, including offering a dApp browser and trending Robinhood Chain tokens in Robinhood Wallet; the main app's search and Crypto sections have also launched trending token displays.