Robinhood launched a Wall Street layer 2 chain and the market crowned a $150M cat coin first

Robinhood launched the public mainnet of Robinhood Chain this month, describing it as a permissionless Layer 2 built on Arbitrum for tokenized stocks, real-world assets, DeFi lending, and AI-native finance. One week in, the chain's loudest retail activity is driven by CASHCAT, a memecoin built on Robinhood's own discarded “CashCat” name. The token reached ne...
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