What Is the Robinhood Chain? A Beginner’s Guide

The Robinhood Chain is an EVM-compatible blockchain that uses ETH as its native gas token, letting you transact, mint NFTs, and use on-chain apps with fast, low-cost transactions. Because it is EVM-compatible, the tools you already know — MetaMask-style wallets, smart contracts written in Solidity, and standards like ERC-721 for NFTs — work out of the box.

“EVM-compatible” means the chain runs the same virtual machine as Ethereum. For you, that translates to three practical benefits:

• Familiar wallets. Any injected wallet or WalletConnect-compatible wallet can connect.
• Battle-tested standards. NFTs use ERC-721, so they are portable, composable, and readable by any explorer.
• Low friction. Paying gas in ETH means no exotic token is required just to move around.

The most common activities are minting and trading NFTs, launching your own collection, and interacting with dApps. That is exactly what HoodMarket is built for — a native NFT marketplace and launchpad for the Robinhood Chain. You can mint an NFT, buy and sell on the secondary market, or launch a full collection.

1. Get a wallet (a browser-extension wallet or a mobile wallet that supports WalletConnect).
2. Add the Robinhood Chain network. On HoodMarket, connecting your wallet prompts the switch automatically.
3. Fund it with a small amount of ETH for gas.
4. Explore collections and make your first mint or purchase.

See our step-by-step wallet connection guide to get set up in under two minutes.

The chain uses the same cryptographic security model as other EVM networks: your assets are controlled by your private keys, and NFT ownership is recorded transparently on-chain. As always, keep your seed phrase offline, verify contract addresses, and only interact with collections you trust. On HoodMarket, collections launched through the official launchpad carry a verification badge to help you tell them apart.