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Where the 1% fee goes. par's platform token has burned 107.3M tokens, 10.7% of supply, nearly 90% of it from sell-side fees in its own pool, burned automatically by contract and manually by the team. Plus the ETH-side upgrade path and three questions for any platform token.

Robinhood's customers are nearly invisible in onchain trading, yet Earn, embedded in the app, helped make Morpho the chain's largest protocol. The distribution switch: big-platform customers move onchain only when a product sits in the main entry point, takes one action, carries the platform's backing and offers a clear return.

On Robinhood Chain, the #1 protocol by TVL, Morpho, earns about $12K a day. The #2, Uniswap, takes 66.4% of all app fees. For any chain, pull two leaderboards: stock and revenue.

Robinhood Chain was built for stock tokens, AI agents and everyday users, but memes lit phase one. A demand–capability matrix scores Pons, pools.trade, PAIR and par on eight capabilities the next phase will need, and maps which wins under each scenario.

A chain built for stock tokens got about 646,000 memecoins first, while identifiable Robinhood app users made only 1–2% of trades. The two-curves framework explains why, what the first settlers left behind, and why weekly unique buyers of the NVIDIA token are the signal to watch.

Same ticker, same price chart, three possible legal identities underneath: shareholder, beneficiary, or creditor. The category with the most money has the fewest rights, and the SEC's new innovation exemption only opens to the one with the most.

Robinhood Chain's revenue fell to under 0.4% of Robinhood's revenue by October. Measured by sequencer fees, it wasn't worth building. Read as the fourth barrier Robinhood is removing, it is a portfolio of options: tokenized U.S. equities, private-company tokenization, 24/7 settlement, AI agent accounts and low-cost international distribution.

Five technical switches held by a handful of players — Uniswap's hook router access, Robinhood Wallet routing, sequencing rules, stock token issuer powers and trading terminals — can reshuffle Robinhood Chain's launchpad market faster than any product launch.

PONS and HOOKR send tokens to a dead address, while PAR reduces totalSupply directly. Here is what the on-chain data really shows—and why burn mechanics matter less than the revenue that sustains them.

An industry built on cutting out the middleman has concentrated about 94% of tokenized US stock and ETF clearing and custody in one ~250-person California broker, Alpaca. Middlemen don't disappear. They move, and they concentrate.