Interestingly, on July 2, the day after the chain went live, Robinhood’s chief executive Vlad Tenev told CNBC that memecoins were largely a dead end, as ‘assets without utility do not serve a lasting purpose,’ and that tokenized real-world assets were the durable direction for crypto.

However, days later on July 7, as CASHCAT climbed, he posted on X that while the company is building its chain to be the best for real-world assets, “it works great for memes too.” He also followed the token’s account.

Meanwhile, Pump.fun, the Solana launchpad that created a boom in extremely short-term memecoin trading, announced on July 8 that it had added support for Robinhood Chain tokens, letting users trade them without bridging.

“It’s only right that the leading app in trading edge supports everything that traders want to speculate on,” co-founder Alon Cohen wrote on X.

While the trade is the kind of story that draws people in, it does not fully show the buyers who bought after a token had already gained several hundred percent in a day, or the ones still holding as it retraces.

A token whose market value swung by tens of millions of dollars within hours can take that value back on the same timescale, causing steep losses for traders who buy at the top.

The memecoin frenzy is a mixed result for Robinhood.

A new blockchain needs transactions and wallets to look alive, and speculative trading delivers both faster than tokenized Treasuries do. The company has spent months positioning the chain as infrastructure for tokenized equities, with day-one integrations from decentralized exchange Uniswap and oracle service Chainlink.

What arrived first was a cat with a fistful of cash, and a chief executive who spent a week arguing that this was precisely the thing crypto needed to outgrow.

Stablecoin market cap fell to $312B in June, its largest monthly drop since TerraUSD, while tokenized equity volumes surged 145% to a record $3.86B.

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Stablecoin market cap fell to $312B in June, its largest monthly drop since TerraUSD, while tokenized equity volumes surged 145% to a record $3.86B.

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