A major outage and corporate backlash hit Robinhood Chain at the peak of its growth
Robinhood Chain’s rapid growth ran into two problems at once on Sept. 4 as the network briefly stopped producing blocks while AMC challenged its fast-growing Stock Token business. On Sept. 4, the Ethereum layer-2 network halted block production for at least 14 minutes, stalling transactions before activity began…
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