Robinhood Chain Block Production Halted for 14 Minutes

Robinhood Chain, the company's Ethereum layer-2 network, experienced a significant outage on Friday, September 4, 2026, halting block production and freezing transactions for at least 14 minutes. The disruption occurred around 12:57 p.m. UTC, preventing the network from confirming token transfers and smart contract calls during a period of increasing activity. The cause of the network interruption has not been disclosed by Robinhood, and the company has not provided a timeline for a full recovery or a detailed technical account of the event. During the outage, transactions submitted to the network remained pending, unable to be processed or confirmed. While block explorers showed transactions continuing to appear, the chain's inability to produce new blocks meant no progress was made. At its normal speed of one block every 100 milliseconds, the approximately 14-minute halt represented roughly 8,400 missed block intervals. The incident highlighted questions about the network's resilience, particularly its reliance on a single sequencer.