Robinhood has launched the public mainnet of Robinhood Chain, an Ethereum Layer-2 network built on Arbitrum, alongside new products including tokenised stocks, decentralised lending and AI-powered trading tools.

Encrypted channels are unlikely to achieve the same level of investor protection and systemic risk buffering as traditional channels in the short term, while traditional infrastructure also needs to leverage encryption technology to achieve greater global accessibility and efficiency.

Taiko’s bridge system had a security flaw that let attackers trick Ethereum into accepting fake messages as real. This allowed unauthorised withdrawals from token vaults, leading to around $1.7 million in losses and a full pause of the network’s bridge and block production.

SpaceX's IPO directly raised a $2 trillion collaboration challenge, which is another major application scenario for blockchain.

ERC-8126, based on the ERC-8004 agent registration mechanism, introduces a standardized verification framework that enables AI agents to prove their credibility through independent verification providers, while protecting privacy through zero-knowledge proofs.

LG Electronics is developing a blockchain-based advertising network with Arbitrum to help advertisers and publishers share ad data and track customer engagement more efficiently.

The narrative of AI trading is expanding from chips and models to the data infrastructure layer.

In the future, the projects that will truly survive will either control the user entry point or become a capability layer within the giant's system.