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Robinhood Chain reference: identifiers, endpoints, wallet setup, and what a tokenized equity actually is.
KestrelPerps runs on Robinhood Chain. The demo terminal reads its prices from live on-chain pools on this network, the fee for opening a new demo market is paid here, and demo top-ups are paid here. This page is the reference for the network itself.
What Robinhood Chain is
Robinhood Chain is a layer 2 built on the Arbitrum stack. It settles to Ethereum, it runs the EVM, and it behaves like any other EVM network from a wallet's point of view. Addresses, signatures and contract calls all work the way they do on Ethereum mainnet. Gas is paid in ETH, not in a separate network token, so a wallet needs a small ETH balance on this chain before it can send anything.
The chain hosts two kinds of assets that matter here: tokenized equities, and ordinary crypto tokens with on-chain liquidity pools. Both are covered by demo markets. See Markets for how those markets are built and priced.
Network identifiers
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Network name | Robinhood Chain |
| Chain ID (decimal) | 4663 |
| Chain ID (hex) | 0x1237 |
| RPC URL | https://rpc.mainnet.chain.robinhood.com |
| Block explorer | https://robinhoodchain.blockscout.com |
| Currency symbol | ETH |
| Currency decimals | 18 |
| Stack | Arbitrum, layer 2 |
Wallets ask for the decimal chain ID in their add-network form. Contracts, RPC payloads and EIP-155 signatures use the hex form, 0x1237. They are the same number written two ways.
Adding the network to a wallet
Most wallets accept these values directly in a custom network form. Copy each field exactly. A mistyped chain ID produces signatures that the network rejects, and a mistyped RPC produces a wallet that appears to connect and then fails on every call.
| Wallet field | Enter |
|---|---|
| Network Name | Robinhood Chain |
| New RPC URL | https://rpc.mainnet.chain.robinhood.com |
| Chain ID | 4663 |
| Currency Symbol | ETH |
| Block Explorer URL | https://robinhoodchain.blockscout.com |
KestrelPerps can also request the switch for you. When you connect a wallet and the active network is something else, the site asks the wallet to switch to 4663, and if the network is unknown to the wallet it asks the wallet to add it using the values above. You approve that prompt in the wallet, not on the page.
Verifying a transaction
Every on-chain payment produces a transaction hash. Paste it into the explorer at robinhoodchain.blockscout.com to see the sender, the recipient, the exact value and the confirmation status. The explorer is the source of truth. If the site shows one thing and the explorer shows another, believe the explorer and send us the hash on https://x.com/poolsperps.
Tokenized equities
A tokenized equity is an ERC-20 token on Robinhood Chain whose value tracks a listed share. On the chain they follow a single naming pattern:
<Company> - Robinhood Token
Apple - Robinhood Token symbol AAPL
NVIDIA - Robinhood Token symbol NVDA
SPDR S&P 500 ETF - Robinhood Token symbol SPYKestrelPerps shows these by ticker, so a market labelled NVDA is the NVIDIA tokenized equity on this chain. Roughly 25 of the demo markets are tokenized equities, including SPY, NVDA, AAPL, QQQ, TSLA, GOOGL, MSTR, GME, PLTR, COST, LLY, HOOD, MSFT, RDDT, TTWO, HIMS, SPCX and gld. The rest are crypto tokens.
The distinction matters for leverage. A tokenized equity tracks a real listed instrument and is much harder to push around than a thin memecoin pool of the same depth, so the leverage floor for equities is 10x against 5x for crypto. The rest of the cap comes from measured pool liquidity. That is set out in Leverage.
What a tokenized equity is not
Two further points, stated plainly. First, the token trades whenever the chain is running, while the underlying share does not. Prices outside the equity market's own hours are set by whoever is willing to trade the token, on thinner books, and can gap when the share market reopens. Second, everything on the demo terminal is a derivative position against that token's on-chain price, refreshed roughly every 20 seconds. It is not an order routed to any equity market.
Practical notes
- Keep a small ETH balance on chain 4663 for gas. Without it, no payment or approval can be sent, regardless of what else the wallet holds.
- Bridging is how assets reach the chain, and it takes several steps. Real trading collateral does not arrive here directly. See Funding your account.
- The KestrelPerps token, PERPS, will live on this chain with 18 decimals and a total supply of 1,000,000,000. It is not deployed yet — there is no contract address to publish. Once it is live, holder tiers read that on-chain balance directly, so they cannot be faked. See Token.
- Real payments to us go to the treasury address 0x130dF20141beB7DB58E8bc8481755328fd3A093b. Verify it against the address shown in your wallet before confirming.
Real trading covered in Real trading is a separate system. It uses USD-denominated collateral in a trading account, and the most markets there are not tokens on this chain, though 17 of them are. Robinhood Chain is where the demo terminal gets its prices and where on-chain payments are settled.