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· 5h

The Economics of 1%: A Platform Token Whose Burns Come Almost 90% From Its Own Pool's Fees

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.

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· 7h

Robinhood's Customers Barely Trade Onchain. Its In-App Earn Product Became a Top Pool Anyway

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.

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· 13h

Two Leaderboards: The #1 protocol by TVL earns $12K a day. #2 takes 66% of all fees

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.

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· 1d

What Kind of Launchpad Will This Chain Need? Profiling Four With a Demand–Capability Matrix

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.

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· 1d

A Chain Built for Stocks Got 646,000 Memecoins First

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.

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· 1d

Three Identities: Is your tokenized stock a share, a beneficial interest, or a debt?

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.

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· 2d

Robinhood Chain Earns Under 0.4% of Revenue. Why Did Robinhood Build It?

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.

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· 2d

Five Gatekeepers: Most of What Shapes Robinhood Chain's Launchpad Market Isn't Up to the Launchpads

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.

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· 2d

Where Did 324.8 Million PONS Go? Inside the Burn Race Between PONS, HOOKR, and PAR

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.

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· 2d

The Middleman Moved: 94% of tokenized US stocks clear through one 250-person broker

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.