Robinhood Chain Now Accounts For More Than Half Of Uniswap Revenue

TL;DR: Uniswap generated approximately $14.81 million in protocol revenue during September, with Robinhood Chain contributing about 53% of the total. Tokenized-stock trading is changing where the exchange earns its fees. Uniswap’s strongest reported revenue month has come from an unexpected direction: a relatively new network associated with a mainstream brokerage. September protocol revenue reached approximately $14.81 million, according to figures discussed by Token Terminal and reported on October 17. Robinhood Chain, which launched in July, accounted for roughly 53% of that amount. That works out to nearly $7.9 million from one network alone. For a decentralized exchange better known for swapping crypto tokens, the source of the growth matters as much as the total. Tokenized stocks and other on-chain representations of traditional assets have created an additional pool of transactions from which trading fees can be earned. That does not mean traditional finance has simply moved onto Uniswap. Products differ in their legal rights, issuer structures and geographic restrictions, and some stock-linked tokens are not equivalent to holding the underlying shares directly. But revenue