Robinhood Markets, Inc. operates the Robinhood app, a brokerage that holds your assets and decides what is listed. Robinhood Chain is a public network where you hold your own assets and anyone can deploy a token. Use the app for brokered access to a curated list; use the chain for direct access to everything on it.
Locksley is built by TrustSwap and powered by Team Finance. Robinhood Markets, Inc. is named here only to tell the brokerage apart from the chain.
Robinhood app vs Robinhood Chain: the decision table
| Dimension | Robinhood app | Robinhood Chain |
|---|---|---|
| Who holds the asset | Robinhood Markets, Inc. holds it on your behalf | You do, in a wallet whose keys only you have |
| Who decides what you can trade | The broker's listing decisions | Nobody. Deployment is permissionless |
| Access requirement | A brokerage account, with identity checks | A wallet and some ETH for gas |
| Hours | Market hours for listed equities, plus any extended sessions the broker offers | Pools trade continuously; stock tokens track instruments that keep market hours |
| Asset universe | A reviewed list | Every token anyone has deployed, reviewed by no one |
| What you can inspect | What the broker discloses | Contract state: pool depth, holders, lock state, deployer history |
| If something goes wrong | An account provider and a regulatory framework behind it | A confirmed transaction is final; no reversal, no support desk |
| Cost structure | The broker's fee schedule | Gas in ETH per transaction, plus pool fees and price impact |
Custody is the difference everything follows from
In a brokerage, your position is an entry in the broker's system. You instruct, they execute, they hold. That comes with identity checks, a rulebook, and a counterparty.
On Robinhood Chain, holding is non-custodial: the tokens sit at an address whose private key you control, and a transaction happens because you signed it. Nobody can freeze it, and nobody can undo it — including you, and including us. Custody buys recourse; self-custody buys control and removes the recourse.
The consequence is where the checking happens. In a brokerage, screening happens before an asset reaches your list. On a public chain, nothing is screened because of the name: a token on Robinhood Chain tells you a contract was deployed and a pool funded, and nothing else. The full picture is in what is Robinhood Chain.
Hours, and the thing that surprises people
Ordinary tokens on Robinhood Chain never close. Pools quote a price every second of the year, which is why weekend moves in memecoins are unremarkable.
Stock tokens behave differently, because the instrument they track keeps market hours even when the pool does not. The result is a pool trading at three in the morning on a Sunday against a reference that has not moved since Friday. That gap is a mechanism, not a glitch, and trading hours: stock tokens vs everything else works through what it does to pricing.
What you can verify on-chain
The real upside of the chain side, specifically:
- Pool depth — the liquidity actually behind the price you are quoted, which sets how far your own order moves it.
- Holder distribution — how concentrated supply is, and in which wallets.
- Deployer history — what the deploying address did before and after this token.
- Lock state — whether a position is held by a locker, what share of the pool it covers, until exactly what timestamp.
The reverse claim needs the same care. "No lock found" means we found none — not that none exists. Locksley does not yet index every locker.
Locksley renders this for every token the moment its pool is created; Explore is the chain-wide screener. As of —pending, Locksley tracks —pending tokens across —pending indexed pairs, per contract reads.
Who should use which
The app fits someone who wants a brokered relationship: a shorter list, an account provider, a rulebook, and no keys to manage. That is a product preference, not a beginner's compromise.
The chain fits someone who wants assets no listing committee will ever approve, wants to inspect mechanisms directly, and accepts that finality cuts both ways. The sequence is a wallet, then funds — get money onto Robinhood Chain covers bridging and the ETH you need for gas — then the checking habit in how to buy tokens safely before you buy tokens on Robinhood Chain.
Both, for many people. They are not substitutes: one is a brokerage account, the other a public network, and using one says nothing about the other.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need a Robinhood Markets account to use Robinhood Chain?
No. Robinhood Chain is a public network, chain ID 4663, and access needs only a compatible wallet and some ETH for gas. No brokerage account, no approval, no application. Most people arrive by bridging funds from another chain rather than through any app, and a wallet works the same either way.
Can I move assets from the Robinhood app onto Robinhood Chain?
Whether a brokerage supports withdrawing a given asset to a given network is the brokerage's own decision and it changes over time, so check the transfer options inside the app rather than assuming. The route most people use instead is bridging from another chain into a self-custodial wallet, which needs no brokerage involvement at any step.
“No lock found” means we found none, not that none exists: we do not index other lockers yet, and it is never a claim about the project.
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