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Robinhood's CEO @vladtenev asked for builders on Robinhood Chain.
We built a game where you rob the rich.
Then we robbed him 🏹
Play it now, free!
Join the Band and earn a FREE MINT:
https://t.co/x9WmCNFwRe
INTRODUCING FREEDZ
What if the words we write freely are the things that imprison us?
FREEDZ is an 8,888-piece deflationary PFP collection exploring freedom, control, and the machines shaping our world.
A hidden world. A sacrificed word. A question.
Are we really free?
Here's the story:
11 bullish theses on $INDEX
1. 3% fee flows into stock rewards.
hold INDEX, get paid in tokenized stocks.
more volume means more fees, more fees means more stock distributions to holders.
2. rwa[.]wtf as a separate product.
an RWA trading + intel surface built around RH chain, Lighter and tokenized stocks.
basically the frontend layer for the same "stocks onchain" thesis.
3. Indices might be the key layer.
this is where INDEX stops being only one token and starts looking like infrastructure.
projects can route fee flow into stock rewards, buybacks, locked LP or baskets.
partners already include @ponsdotfamily and @letscashfun.
4. timing is still the weirdest part.
INDEX keeps shipping first: Rialto routing, stock rewards, rwa[.]wtf, Indices, partner integrations.
some of this does not look like "we built it in a weekend after the chain launched."
they look more like pioneers of the Robinhood chain RWA stack than tourists.
5. the Vlad / Robinhood language overlap is hard to unsee.
i compared Vlad's article with Index articles before.
couldn't prove same author but the numbers were funny:
→ 25-35% same person
→ 75-85% same writing method / editorial pipeline
→ 90%+ same Robinhood Chain messaging universe
i.e.: programmable, portable, always available, stocks as useful capital, global access, ownership.
same language layer everywhere.
6. Vlad basically described the INDEX mechanic on a podcast without naming it.
he talked about a world where you hold a meme coin and just get stock tokens airdropped to you.
that is the Index / Indices thesis in one sentence.
7. Vlad follows INDEX.
second Robinhood Chain project he follows after @cashcat_token. for a random ecosystem token that is not nothing.
8. funny timing, again.
one of the big INDEX holders posted "robinhood chain is two months old, let that sink in," then dumped his entire INDEX bag.
after that, Vlad quoted the same post back with "let that sink in."
INDEX made new local highs shortly after.
9. SBS just completed the Index audit.
@SBSecurity_ published the results for The Index Baskets: 1 high and 11 medium findings, all resolved before launch. they also called themselves The Index's official security partner.
same firm audited CashCat / letscash launchpad and ethereum:0x07f5b6823751c2e2cd4560f28af75ff887102241. both later got listed on Robinhood App.
what comes next is not exactly hard to guess.
10. crypto[.]com listed INDEX a few hours ago.
CashCat and PONS both got their crypto[.]com listings before Robinhood App picked them up.
third token, same sequence.
11. the real bull case is alignment.
Robinhood keeps talking about tokenized stocks becoming programmable, portable and globally available.
@TheIndexFi is already building products directly around that exact script.
maybe they just read the room perfectly.
or maybe they were standing much closer to the script than people think.
you can trade INDEX on FomoApp too btw:
https://t.co/xSxhuFnxVQ
robinhood chain is two months old and all of this already lines up. let that sink in.
most people bought $INDEX after Vlad followed it and still call it a dividend token or a ponzi. funny.
let’s close that gap.
I mapped what Index is today, what is coming next and where the new fuel sources may come from ↓ https://t.co/rAh1MfavSo
index is not just a dividend token anymore
the simple version used to be:
> hold $INDEX
> earn tokenized stocks
but the product is starting to look bigger than that.
@TheIndexFi just added Intel on https://t.co/6UwQJpIRTf, basically a research layer for stocks, ETFs, insiders, politicians, news, screeners and heatmaps.
not another empty dashboard. more like the front page for figuring out what’s worth watching before it hits the RWA trading surface.
they also expanded spot support on https://t.co/6UwQJpIRTf to 25 stock/ETF assets.
that part matters because the current holder basket is still smaller than the trading universe. so the app is already moving from “we distribute these assets” to “we are building the place where those assets actually get used.”
the more interesting hint is what comes next.
someone asked if you’ll be able to long your earned dividends directly in index.
their answer: coming soon.
that’s the real shift imo.
1. fees buy tokenized stocks
2. holders receive them
3. then those same assets can start becoming usable capital inside https://t.co/6UwQJpIRTf
swap them, zap them, maybe use them as collateral, maybe long/hedge around them without leaving the stack.
SPY is already collateral on Lighter. ANTHROPIC PreStocks is already showing staged activity there too. and with Robinhood pushing early-stage/private market access, it’s not hard to see why Index keeps leaning into this direction.
not just ��stock dust every 15 minutes.”
more like an RWA terminal where the yield, the assets and the trading loop all start feeding each other.
CA: 0x56910D4409F3a0C78C64DD8D0545FF0705389870
holding from 2M mcap and watching the next few updates very closely.
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gm @jessepollak@brian_armstrong
I hope robinhood ends up draining all your users, builders, volume, and liquidity and that you look back on today as the moment you finally turned on your last supporters.
At this point, it doesn’t even feel like you’re trying. It feels like you’re actively playing against the very people on your chain.
You’ve spent years farming your own community, and now you seem completely disconnected from the fact that you’ve actually hurt people. I don’t believe your apologies of the other day:
It feels like you’re only sorry that you failed, not that you caused real damages.
There’s no real accountability, just the same pattern over and over again: being wrong, staying silent, and acting with zero regard for your own users.
You’re the nokia of this ecosystem: complacent, outdated, and heading toward irrelevance.
May karma return to you in a thousand forms, each one a reflection of the harm you chose to ignore. 🙏
WHY IS CT FUDDING BASE RIGHT NOW?
CT is just insane fud and burying @base , all because @brian_armstrong first puts this coin's logo as his twitter pfp, base:0xb2000000000000000000007bf6d5cbb0e24cb301 flies from 400k to 35m. and today, a day later, he removes the pfp and it dumps to 1.5m. this was the last straw, obviously the negativity had been building up for months and even YEARS
a lot of people got stuck higher, especially around 10m, because there was hope that this was THE chance for base to show its teeth and put out its own runner against solana:9cRCn9rGT8V2imeM2BaKs13yhMEais3ruM3rPvTGpump and cash-cat:native (i got lucky and dodged it, i was scared to buy that expensive)
BUT NOPE
THIS IS BASE BABY
NO CRYING IN THE CASINO
rays of support to all my brothers who got stuck in base:0xb2000000000000000000007bf6d5cbb0e24cb301 hoping base could demonstrate something.
right now we can objectively only rely on @cobie saving this chain, no faith in the rest
it clipped us a little sideways on base:0x2100a39f514d8fe3f26963a29b95b030a0a5d4b7 too, because there's full disappointment in base overall.
i'm still in my position, for anyone who didn't accumulate yesterday the levels are a bit nicer now. in this coin we're basically betting purely on cobie but look for yourself
anyway all of this gives the community another signal to look toward @RobinhoodCrypto cash-cat:native etc,
because @vladtenev's alpha moves look even more alpha compared to what base is doing
the $BRIAN story is the most instructive thing that happened on base this week. here's the full picture.
the token launched on o1 exchange's B20 launchpad. same o1 whose airdrop i mapped onchain last month: 95%+ of 30m tokens went to fresh nonce-0 wallets in sorted batches of 100. that context matters for everything below.
one more piece: CB ventures is an investor in o1. keep that in mind as you read on.
then yesterday. brian changes his pfp to the token. jesse comments. base posts. baseapp posts. cobie posts. everyone in the base orbit touches it within hours.
peak around $30M then straight down.
why the fade? because nobody on the coinbase side actually held supply. before the pfp change the chart showed none of the usual insider accumulation pattern. supply stayed with early snipers. you don't run a sustained pump on a chart you don't own. all that attention converted into exit liquidity for whoever got in first.
meanwhile robinhood's reaction was instant. vlad followed the @TheIndexFi account. speed that coinbase corporates simply don't have.
now the date. i pulled o1's vesting contracts (pic below)
three of them, 440M $O tokens locked total. the first unlock opens today, july 17, 07:00 utc, then monthly steps all the way to june 2030. exactly one month after o1 launched.
so on the exact day the first unlock opens, the token from o1's launchpad gets pumped by the entire base leadership.
maybe coincidence. maybe someone needed a headline while bags got lighter. i'm not claiming intent, i'm reading a calendar. receipts attached.
my base case: base distances itself from $BRIAN entirely within days. because pumping supply you never accumulated makes no sense as a strategy, but makes perfect sense as a mistake.
bought yesterday at $12M, sold everything at 2x. could it still pump from here? sure. but just remember $jesse. and remember how cheap coinbase always plays it.
robinhood's answers will keep coming instantly.
think for yourself.
in less than 24 hours we hit the prices i was talking about yesterday on cash-cat:native
inexperienced neophytes are already burying robinhood, trying to spot some micro breakouts of baseseason or runners on other chains.
back when cashcat was 150-200kk you all dreamed about a correction, now it's 50-60 and you're saying you don't need it at all.
relax, set your limits from 60mx`x` down to 30m on cash-cat:native, at least that's what i did and my first buy at 55 already filled.
you probably don't remember how strong second waves of growth can be