Robinhood Chain opens stock tokens to developers, targets RWA and Meme lead

Robinhood is effectively trying to convert its retail distribution into a chain-level moat, and opening stock tokens to developers plus AI agent access is the lever: it invites builders to make tokenized equities composable rather than a closed product. The explicit pitch against existing public blockchains puts it in direct competition with general-purpose networks for RWA and meme issuance, a pairing that will strike some as an odd credibility mix. The open question is whether developer uptake follows the distribution, and whether tokenized equities on a brokerage-affiliated chain attract the same scrutiny as their public-chain equivalents.