The chain itself: Blockscout
The canonical explorer is Blockscout at robinhoodchain.blockscout.com. It shows blocks, transactions, addresses, and verified contracts, and exposes an open API (/api) and a stats endpoint (/stats) — the primary source for raw chain figures like block time, transaction counts, and total addresses.
Blockscout is the ground truth for what happened onchain. It is the first stop for verifying a contract address, and the last word when a dashboard and the chain disagree. A third-party explorer, Robinscan, also covers the chain.
Money on the chain: DefiLlama
For capital rather than raw transactions, DefiLlama's chain page (defillama.com/chain/robinhood-chain) is the standard reference: TVL, DEX volume, stablecoin market cap, and perps volume, with per-protocol pages for Morpho, Uniswap, Arcus, and the rest.
One discipline when reading it: TVL measures deposits, not usage, and the launch weeks are distorted by fee subsidies and speculative activity. A protocol running its own execution layer — Lighter, with its ZK stack — will also under-show in chain TVL. Read the concentration (bridge, Morpho, Uniswap dominating) as the real story, not any single headline number.
Decentralisation and analytics
For how decentralised the chain is, L2BEAT (l2beat.com) tracks its stage, sequencer status, and activity (UOPS, transaction counts) — the place to watch whether the operator-run sequencer ever gives way to something more trust-minimised.
For custom analysis, Dune hosts community dashboards (Entropy Advisors publishes a Robinhood Chain network overview), and Token Terminal and Allium provide curated metrics like daily active users and tokenised-stock counts. CoinGecko tracks token-level market caps, including a "Robinhood Chain Stocks Ecosystem" category and Robinhood Wrapped ETH.
The practical method: cross-read. Blockscout for truth, DefiLlama for money, L2BEAT for trust, Dune and Token Terminal for narrative — and date every figure, because on a chain this new the numbers move fast.