DEX trading volume on Robinhood's chain exceeded US$3.1 billion, with Meme coins leading early trad

Robinhood Chain's decentralized exchange trading volume exceeded US$3.1 billion, with Memin leading early trading

Robinhood Chain's on-chain trading activity surged in the past week, with decentralized exchange (DEX) trading volume reaching US$3.1 billion, driven in large part by the renewed enthusiasm for Memin. The retail broker's blockchain network went online two weeks ago, but interesting digital token transactions quickly replaced the platform's initial focus on equity-linked assets.

Memo dominates early activity

Although Robinhood Chain aims to realize the trading of tokenized stocks of world-leading companies such as Apple and Nvidia, analysts at investment bank Bernstein reported that the dominant activity in the early days of the network's launch was memo trading.

Bernstein said on Monday that strong demand for memin from native cryptocurrency traders has driven trading liquidity and overall activity on Robinhood Chain. The network, developed by Robinhood Markets, has quickly become one of the top five online trading venues, with most recent trading volume being completed through decentralized exchanges such as Uniswap and PancakeSwap.

Although early trading volume in Robinhood Chain was dominated by memecoin, analysts pointed out that the network "showed strong liquidity and attracted a large number of native cryptocurrency traders," while highlighting Robinhood's push into real-world assets.

Among the main assets, the cat-themed meme token Cash Cat has a market value of US$150 million. Blockscout data showed that as of Monday, about 25,000 wallets held the token. Other noteworthy memes on the Internet include Wen Lambo, Tendies and Hoodrat.

For comparison, the value of stock tokens (assets representing company shares) held by Robinhood Chain users is approximately $13 million, and these services are available in more than 120 countries excluding the United States. The number of users who have access to these stock tokens is approximately 65,000.

(Asset type: Cash Cat meme/market cap: US$150 million/number of users: 25,000 wallets; all stock tokens/market cap: US$13 million/number of users: 65,000)

Dictionary: Robinhood Markets is a US-based financial services company known for its commission-free stock and cryptocurrency trading applications. Robinhood Chain is its blockchain network that aims to enable on-chain transactions of memin and tokenized real-world assets.

Focus expands to DeFi and lending

Bernstein's analysis highlights Robinhood's efforts to expand its platform beyond stock token trading. The broker has entered into a partnership to integrate decentralized lending through Morpho and increase perpetual futures trading with DEX Lighter.

The rapid penetration of the network and high memin transaction volume have made Robinhood Chain a compelling new center for online retail transactions.

BitMine Chairman Tom Lee commented that the rapid launch of Robinhood Chain further consolidates Ethereum's status as a "currency" because its transaction fees are paid for using ETH.

Small Dictionary: Morpho is an open source decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol built on Ethereum, which enables peer-to-peer lending and improves capital efficiency. DEX Lighter is a decentralized trading platform that provides perpetual futures trading.

Stock prices rebound as markets focus on tokenization potential

Robinhood's own stock traded at about $111 on Monday, according to Yahoo Financial data. In the past four weeks, the stock has risen 19%, almost wiping out all losses it suffered earlier this year due to overall volatility in the cryptocurrency market.

About a year ago, Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev once called tokenization "the biggest innovation in the capital markets in more than a decade" and predicted that the new technology could eventually change the way people view the cryptocurrency network by linking digital tokens to tangible assets.

Vlad Tenev maintains that linking digital tokens to real-world value will challenge the view that crypto-assets are "not related to anything of fundamental value, or are mainly based on memes."

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