Why Arbitrum Won Over Robinhood + A $59 Million Polymarket Controversy - Ep. 863

Today, we’ve got two very different stories in one episode.

First, Steven Goldfeder, co-founder of Offchain Labs, joins Unchained to explain why Robinhood is rebuilding its product on the Arbitrum tech stack, what it says about crypto’s evolution, and how this could finally bridge Web2 and Web3.

Then, Calvin Hamilton breaks down the bizarre $59 million bet on whether President Zelensky wore a suit — and why vague rules, a fateful tweet, and one protocol’s vote could damage Polymarket’s reputation.

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Steven Goldfeder, co-founder and CEO of Offchain Labs

Calvin Hamilton, Polymarket bettor on the ‘yes’ of the Zelensky dispute.

Unchained: Robinhood Is Building Its Own Layer 2 Blockchain

Robinhood’s presentation at ETHcc: To Catch A Token

Rob Hadick’s tweet on tokenized stocks 

Timestamps:

🎬 0:00 Intro

🚀 1:44 Why Robinhood chose Arbitrum and how much control they really have

🧑‍💻 6:38 How Arbitrum Stylus could power better UX for Robinhood and beyond

🌊 10:26 Why liquidity fragmentation is still a major unsolved problem

🧲 11:41 What makes MEV capture so attractive to big players like Robinhood

🏆 13:48 Why tokenized stocks might be the “big prize” on Arbitrum

🌐 16:12 What it means to be part of the Arbitrum ecosystem

📊 18:02 How tokenized equities could change investing and what the risks are

🏛️ 21:11 Why the Arbitrum DAO stands to gain from this partnership

🔧 22:17 How Steven thinks fragmentation can be fixed more easily than most believe

🌉 25:52 Where the crypto-TradFi convergence is headed next

💬 29:40 Why Steven defends Ethereum and calls out the critics of L2s

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