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I get why @RobinhoodApp wants their own chain when Eth, Arb, Base, Sol and a hundred other rails are just sitting there ready to use The answer is plugging tokenized stocks into someone else's chain and you're just selling the asset. Owning the chain lets it control the wallet,
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AI visual note: The image displays a collage titled "TradFi building crypto rails," featuring logos of major financial and fintech companies including Coinbase, Kraken, Securitize, BlackRock, Visa, Franklin Templeton, J.P. Morgan, Robinhood, Circle, Mastercard, Janus Henderson, DTCC, Invesco, Figure, and Stripe. This visual supports the post's point about Robinhood's recent announcement of building its own blockchain, highlighting that nearly every major TradFi institution is now developing crypto infrastructure—suggesting that owning the chain itself (rather than using established networks like Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, or Solana) gives firms control over wallets, tokenized assets, and the user experience, rather than just being an asset issuer on someone else's rails.