john 🌀
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Asking this question: Why would Robinhood spin up their own L2 rather than build an app on an existing chain? What does this allow them to do? What types of *control* does it afford them?
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six
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The biggest thing probably is they earn the revenue from transaction fees, as opposed to leaking them elsewhere (e.g. Coinbase if they were built on Base, or validators if they were built on ETH, etc.)
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They also don't have liquidity concerns. Other apps may be okay with "leaking value" to Base because they benefit far more from users and liquidity that building on Base provides (Zora is an example here of why they benefitted from pivoting to Base from Zora network). Robinhood has tens of millions of users with capital on the platform, they do not have this issue and the tradeoff is much more in the direction of launching their own chain.
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john 🌀
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Reasonable answers. Why is tokenising stocks at all beneficial in this case?
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off the top of head: - 24/5 trading increases volume/activity - if tokenized, can use across various defi primitives etc. (e.g. easier to use tokenized stocks as onchain collateral for permissionless lending or something) - more seamless transacting between crypto and fiat assets without needing to offramp/onramp etc. all of this just accelerates volume and activity on Robinhood, and they can take a % cut on all of it, great for business
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