# Robinhood Chain Kept Producing Blocks During Sept. 4 Disruption

By Simon Yoon

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Published: 2026-09-30T15:41:41.000Z
Updated: 2026-09-30T15:41:41.000Z
Section: Technology

> The network produced 854,255 blocks that day, even as successful traffic through selected busy applications fell for about 43 minutes.

Robinhood Chain continued producing blocks during a Sept. 4 disruption while successful traffic through selected busy applications fell sharply, showing how a layer-2 network can keep operating as users encounter failed or delayed transactions.

The network produced 854,255 blocks across all 1,440 minutes that day. The longest gap between consecutive block timestamps was two seconds, and Robinhood Chain produced 592 blocks during the minute beginning at 8:57 a.m. ET (12:57 UTC), the time cited in earlier halt reports.

The 14-minute interruption involved posting transaction data to Ethereum. The pauses ran from 8:29:47 to 8:38:23 a.m. ET (12:29:47–12:38:23 UTC) and from 8:42:47 to 8:48:11 a.m. ET (12:42:47–12:48:11 UTC). Both ended before the reported halt and neither stopped the network from producing layer-2 blocks.

Application access nevertheless deteriorated. Successful traffic through selected busy applications fell sharply from 8:37 to 9:20 a.m. ET (12:37–13:20 UTC), a period of about 43 minutes. The median busy application completed about 20% of its usual successful transactions. At the worst point, the chain processed 21 million gas per second, compared with 56 million gas per second immediately after the disruption.

The episode involved delayed Ethereum data posting and a transaction backlog. Problems with sequencer-feed connections emerged after increased Robinhood Mainnet latency was identified at 9:10 a.m. ET (13:10 UTC).

The exact point where incoming transactions stopped progressing was not established. Possible points included the sequencer queue or an RPC layer used by wallets and applications.

Robinhood Chain experienced no downtime, while successful transactions through some application access paths declined sharply. The differing results reflect separate dependencies among the sequencer, RPC providers, data-feed subscribers and Ethereum’s data-posting process.

Robinhood Chain is a permissionless, Ethereum-compatible layer-2 network built on Arbitrum Nitro. Robinhood launched the network in July 2026 for financial services and tokenized real-world assets.

On Sept. 22, Robinhood Chain added a delayed backup endpoint for its mainnet sequencer feed after subscriber volume increased sharply and the public endpoint exceeded its provisioned capacity.