About Robinhood Chain Latency
Real-time latency monitoring for the Robinhood Chain sequencer.
What is Robinhood Chain Latency?
Robinhood Chain is Robinhood's Arbitrum-stack Layer 2 for tokenized stocks and real-world assets. Like Arbitrum One, every transaction on it is ordered by a single sequencer — there is no other way onto the chain: whether a transaction arrives through a public RPC provider or is submitted directly, it must reach this sequencer to be included.
The sequencer runs in AWS us-east-2 (Ohio). The map shows how far each region is from it in network terms, and where co-location pays.
Why It Matters: First-Come, First-Served
Robinhood Chain orders transactions strictly first-come-first-served: position in the queue is determined by arrival time at the sequencer, and nothing else. There is no express lane and no fee-based priority — you cannot pay to jump the queue.
That makes ordering a pure latency race. For anyone trading tokenized stocks or arbitraging them against other venues, the distance between your servers and the sequencer is your queue position. That distance is what this map measures.
Methodology
| Target | sequencer.mainnet.chain.robinhood.com |
| Measurement | Each probe submits a fixed signed transaction via eth_sendRawTransaction. |
| Metric | Time to first byte of the sequencer's response over a warm connection — network round trip plus a few milliseconds of validation. p50 over 60-second windows. |
| Connection | Each probe pins the fastest sequencer gateway IP for consistency and re-checks DNS every five minutes, so a sequencer infrastructure move shows up as an annotated step-change rather than noise. |
Research Project Disclaimer
Robinhood Chain Latency is a research project provided for informational and educational purposes only. The latency metrics displayed are measured from specific geographic probe locations using our distinct server environments. Actual latency may differ. Real-world network performance depends on numerous factors including ISP routing, local network congestion, and hardware. These numbers should be viewed as estimates and directional baselines. This project is not affiliated with or endorsed by Robinhood.