Почему Robinhood выбрал Arbitrum, а не отдельный Layer-1? Масштаб токенизированных акций превысил 2000

【BlockBeats】Robinhood’s crypto business team recently revealed an interesting choice — rather than building an independent Layer-1 blockchain, they decided to construct their own Ethereum Layer-2 solution on Arbitrum. The team lead explained that while this decision seems unconventional, the logic is actually straightforward: directly inherit Ethereum’s own security guarantees and decentralization characteristics, combined with the existing liquidity in the EVM ecosystem, which saves considerable trouble and allows them to focus all efforts on their core business — stock tokenization.

Currently, Robinhood’s L2 is still in the private testnet phase, but the deployment of tokenized stocks started long ago and is already running on Arbitrum One. When the new chain officially launches, these assets and liquidity can seamlessly migrate over with virtually zero switching costs.

From a numerical perspective, this business is growing quite rapidly. Initially there were only around 200 tokenized stocks, but now it has expanded to over 2000, more than a tenfold increase. This growth curve indicates rising market acceptance of such products, and Robinhood’s strategic positioning in this area is indeed noteworthy.