Robinhood Chain Goes Live, Agentic Payments Take Shape, Updated Lean Ethereum Roadmap
Welcome to our weekly digest, where we unpack the latest in account and chain abstraction and the broader infrastructure shaping Ethereum. This week: Robinhood takes its own chain and agentic trading live; WalletConnect and MetaMask make the case that account abstraction is what will keep AI agent payments safe; a new essay argues Ethereum should fund its founding period like a young nation-state; and Vitalik shares the updated Lean Ethereum roadmap that makes privacy and quantum resistance first-class. Robinhood Chain Goes Live With Agentic Trading WalletConnect and MetaMask on Agentic Payments The Case for Founding-Period Ethereum Funding Vitalik Shares the Updated Lean Ethereum Roadmap Please fasten your belts! Robinhood Chain Goes Live With Agentic Trading Robinhood has launched the public mainnet of Robinhood Chain , its biggest move yet into onchain finance. Built on Arbitrum, the Layer 2 is designed for tokenized real-world assets and DeFi, and it went live at a London keynote with day-one partners including Uniswap. With the mainnet, Robinhood’s Stock Tokens are now fully live in more than 120 countries, though availability varies by jurisdiction. Users can trade tokenized equities around the clock and put them to work across DeFi, including in lending pools and as trading collateral. The company also rolled out Robinhood Earn , a decentralized lending product that pays an estimated 7% on its dollar-backed USDG stablecoin through a self-custody wallet, powered by the Morpho protocol. Perpetual futures and maker fees as low as 0% round out the trading updates. The most relevant piece for our readers is Agentic Accounts for crypto. Through a Trading MCP, eligible users can connect their AI model of choice to Robinhood’s data and tools, while keeping control by setting how much capital to allocate and which safety guardrails apply. This is account abstraction territory in all but name. Letting an agent trade from a self-custody wallet within human-defined limit