When a company that brought investing to a generation builds its own blockchain for financial services, it is worth paying attention to where finance is heading. That chain is here, and DFNS supports it. Teams building on Robinhood’s new blockchain, the Robinhood Chain, can now run their financial operations on DFNS, issuing and moving assets, managing treasury, and enforcing the rules and approvals that govern them, on the platform that runs onchain operations for institutions and fintechs worldwide.
Robinhood Chain is built to bring financial services and real-world assets onchain. DFNS is the platform that runs financial products once they are there. One provides an open network. The other provides the operating system to build a business on it.
Equity goes onchain
Robinhood Chain is a permissionless EVM built for financial services and tokenized real-world assets. It is designed for the native issuance of tokenized assets, and to power a new generation of onchain financial applications. A few things Robinhood has shared publicly about the chain:
- It is permissionless by design. Anyone can access, transfer, or build on Robinhood Chain, without intermediaries or platform lock-in.
- It is built for developers, with a wallet-ready mainnet and a suite of developer tools, so teams can start building quickly.
- It runs on Arbitrum’s Layer 2 infrastructure, delivering high throughput with 100ms block times and the security of Ethereum.
- The mainnet is live today, so teams can test, integrate, and validate financial applications now.
For a developer or a financial institution, that combination, an open network purpose-built for tokenized assets, EVM-compatible, fast, and secured by Ethereum, is a strong foundation. The question is what you build on it, and what it takes to operate once real value is involved.
An open network needs an operating layer
Permissionless is the point of Robinhood Chain. Openness is what lets anyone build without asking permission, and it is what makes a network grow. But a financial product is more than a transaction on a fast chain. It needs accounts, approvals, treasury controls, compliance checks, and an auditable record of every action, the operational layer that turns a network into a place you can run a business.
That is what DFNS provides. DFNS is a core banking platform for digital assets: the operating layer between an application’s business logic and the chains it runs on. Just as a core banking system runs accounts, payments, controls, and reporting for a traditional bank, DFNS runs the equivalent for onchain finance, wallets and accounts, transaction processing, treasury, tokenization, policy, and governance, through one API, on any network it supports, including Robinhood Chain.
The result is the best of both. Builders get the open, fast, EVM-compatible foundation of Robinhood Chain, and a full operating platform on top. A two-person startup and a global bank can both build on the same network, each running its products with the controls it needs.
The operating layer for financial products on Robinhood Chain
Because Robinhood Chain is an EVM, builders get the full DFNS platform from day one on the mainnet:
- Accounts and wallets, the account layer for any financial product, provisioned programmatically through one API or the dashboard and embedded directly into your application.
- Transaction processing, to construct, broadcast, track, speed up, and rebroadcast transactions across their full lifecycle, with API-level idempotency so retries never double-send.
- Treasury and asset operations, to manage balances and programmatic flows and move value under defined controls, across Robinhood Chain and every other network you run.
- Tokenization, to issue and service tokenized assets end to end, interacting with any contract through Bring Your Own ABI.
- Policy and governance, with spending limits, allowlists, multi-party approval quorums, velocity controls, and roles, enforced before anything executes and impossible to bypass even if application credentials are compromised.
- EVM-native capabilities, including token standards, smart contract calls, account abstraction, and gas sponsorship so your users never need to hold a token to transact.
- Real-time visibility, with full transaction history, balance retrieval, and webhooks that keep your back office and systems in sync.
Underneath all of it, key security is the floor, not the headline. Private keys are protected by MPC, HSMs, or offline signers and never assembled in one place, so everything above runs on a foundation an attacker cannot move without defeating several independent systems at once. DFNS operates strictly as a technology provider, secured by a zero trust architecture with SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, and ISO 27018 certifications. Custody and control stay with you.
What teams can build
Robinhood Chain is built for financial services and tokenized real-world assets, and DFNS gives builders the operating layer to bring those products to life. On the mainnet today, teams can build and validate:
- Tokenized real-world assets, issuing and servicing tokenized instruments with accounts, transfer controls, and an auditable record of every holder action.
- Payments and stablecoin flows, moving value with policy enforcement, approval rules, and screening built into the path.
- Consumer wallets and apps, embedding accounts that feel like a modern app, with gasless transactions and account abstraction.
- Treasury and automated operations, managing balances and programmatic flows under governed, infrastructure-level controls.
Each of these runs on the same DFNS platform, so a team that builds once on the Robinhood Chain mainnet can extend across products, and across the other networks DFNS supports, under one set of controls.
Start building
The Robinhood Chain mainnet is live, and DFNS support is ready. If you are building the next generation of onchain finance, you can start now with the operating layer to take a product from its first test transaction to production volume.
Robinhood Chain joins 60+ blockchain networks supported on DFNS, the platform trusted by more than 400 institutions and fintechs to run digital asset operations worldwide.
- Learn more about onchain core banking with DFNS: dfns.co
- Explore the platform and documentation: docs.dfns.co
- Start building today on Robinhood Chain: app.dfns.io/get-started
- Talk to our team about Robinhood Chain: sales@dfns.co