Robinhood Chain is evaluating Arbitrum’s newer Priority Gas Auctions system, which lets users pay fees to move selected trades ahead in transaction processing. The review is private, and the network has not decided to adopt the technology.
The Ethereum-compatible chain currently orders transactions on a first-come, first-served basis.
Robinhood Chain launched in July for tokenized real-world financial assets and has since entered the top 10 blockchains by total value locked. Paid transaction priority could give professional trading firms an advantage when opportunities disappear in fractions of a second.
The model differs from Robinhood’s traditional payment-for-order-flow business, in which market makers pay brokers to route customer trades. Onchain, fee-based ordering is also intended to address frontrunning of visible blockchain transactions, known as maximum extracted value, while potentially narrowing the speed gap between firms seeking faster trading connections.