● THE ORIGINAL FOX — LIVE ON ROBINHOOD CHAIN

$HOOD

The 1973 Disney fox who gave the Robinhood app its name — now living on the chain he inspired. 🏹

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The cartoon inspired the app. The app built the chain. Now the fox comes home.

ACT I · 1973 1973

Disney draws
a fox 🦊

November 8, 1973. Walt Disney Productions releases Robin Hood — a whistling fox in a feathered cap who robs from the rich and gives to the poor. It was the first Disney animated film made entirely after Walt's death. The critics shrugged. The people didn't.

$5M → $0M budget → box office a 6.6× on debut. the fox always eats.

🐓 narrated by a rooster Alan-a-Dale, voiced by country legend Roger Miller — who wrote "Oo-De-Lally" on set

1998 the fox invents the meme the film's "Whistle Stop" was sped up into the Hampster Dance — one of the internet's first memes. this fox was memeing before memes had a name.

“Oo-de-lally, oo-de-lally, golly what a day.”
— Roger Miller, Walt Disney's Robin Hood (1973)

ACT II · 2013 2013

The fox names
an app 📈

Two Stanford physicists — Vlad Tenev and Baiju Bhatt — set out to give Wall Street to everyone. When friends saw what they were building, they called it “the Robin Hood of finance.” The name stuck. The legend got a logo. And their HQ? Covered in murals of our fox.

THE INSPIRATION LINE

1973 the cartoon

2013 names the app

2026 RH goes on chain

$HOOD $HOOD is launched

TECHCRUNCH — OCT 26, 2015 THE RECEIPT

“…surrounded by murals inspired by the anthropomorphic foxes of Disney's Robin Hood cartoon.”

That's Robinhood HQ, as reported. The inspiration isn't lore — it's on the record, painted on their walls.

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“Robinhood is liberating information that's locked up with professionals and giving it to the people.”
— Vlad Tenev, co-founder, to TechCrunch

ACT III · THE CHAIN

The name becomes
a blockchain ⛓️

— keep scrolling, the timeline rides sideways —

JUN 30, 2025

Cannes. A stage. A bombshell.

Robinhood announces tokenized US equities at its Cannes keynote — 200+ stock and ETF tokens switched on across the EU. And one more thing: a chain of their own is coming.

TESTNET

0 transactions in week one

The public testnet of Robinhood Chain — an Ethereum Layer 2 built on the Arbitrum stack, purpose-built for real-world assets — clocks four million transactions in its first week.

JUL 1, 2026

Mainnet. Live now.

“The World is Flat” keynote, Old Royal Naval College, London. Robinhood Chain goes live: 24/7 stock token trading, self-custody, 120+ countries. Uniswap, Chainlink, 1inch — day one.

THE SPECS

1000ms blocks

Hundred-millisecond block times, settling to Ethereum for security. Markets that never close, in a forest that never sleeps.

JUL 2026

And the first legend minted?

The inspiration himself. Robin $HOOD.

ACT IV · THE LOOT

Lootonomics 💰

LAUNCHED ON

Pons

The fox took his first shot on Pons — no presale, no sheriff, straight onto Robinhood Chain.

1/1 buy / sell tax every arrow fired pays the Merry Men — fees go to holders

How to join the band 🏹

01
Get a wallet
Any wallet that speaks Robinhood Chain. Guard your seed phrase like it's the crown jewels.
02
Load your quiver
Bridge or buy the chain's gas token so you can draw your bow.
03
Fire at GMGN or Axiom
Paste the $HOOD contract into GMGN or Axiom, swap, and take your seat around the campfire.