SwarmBase Closes $7M Funding Round to Scale Agentic AI Infrastructure

When Robinhood launched its own blockchain on July 1, the company’s pitch was about infrastructure. A permissionless, Arbitrum-based Layer 2 network built to move tokenized stocks and bonds on-chain. Day-one integrations from Uniswap and Chainlink gave it instant institutional credibility. A week later, the chain’s most-traded asset had nothing to do with tokenized equities. It was a cartoon cat. Where the Name Actually Came From CASHCAT is a community-created memecoin.

Bitcoin spent Tuesday caught between two forces pulling in opposite directions, and for most of the day, neither one clearly won. The cryptocurrency opened at $62,259 on Tuesday morning, down 2.3% from Monday’s open, before firming to roughly $62,865 by mid-morning US trading. By the afternoon, prices had climbed further still, with data from The Block showing bitcoin trading near $64,265, up 3.56% on the day, while ether jumped 6.5%

TRON continues to show strong real-world usage even as the broader market consolidates. The network recently processed over 14 million daily transactions at its peak and maintains a consistent high throughput for stablecoin transfers. TRX is currently trading around $0.33. The token benefits from TRON’s position as one of the leading chains for USDT activity, with the stablecoin supply on the network surpassing $90 billion this month. Low fees and

Robinhood Chain is making one of the strongest Layer 2 launches of 2026. The Arbitrum Orbit-based network has already recorded $866 million in daily DEX volume and more than $134 million in total value locked within its first two weeks. The chain focuses on tokenized stocks and real-world assets. It offers sub-second block times and fees under $0.01 while remaining fully EVM compatible. This makes it easy for developers and