Dogecoin dogecoin but on robinhood

Robinhood Chain lets creators run their own full nodes. We spun one up, synced it, and brought Dogecoin onto Robinhood Chain — the product Vlad sketched in 2022, on rails he ships today.

The product Vlad described? We built it — on our own node.
Screenshot of Vlad Tenev's April 2022 tweet thread about Dogecoin becoming the currency of the Internet
Vlad Tenev’s April 14, 2022 thread — view on X

Robinhood Chain is an Arbitrum Nitro chain (ArbOS 61) that posts to Ethereum. Anyone can run a full node. We did. Then we put DOGE on it.

What our box looked like, vibes-only:

  • A chunky multi-core machine with enough RAM to not cry
  • Fast local NVMe (the docs say several TBs — we nodded solemnly and ordered more disks)
  • Docker humming in the background
  • Hooks into Ethereum L1 so the chain can finish syncing

We pointed it at mainnet, waited for eth_syncing to say false, and called it a day. Ports lit up. Blocks rolled. Dogecoin had a new home.

syncing…

This page is a story / LARP, not a runbook. If you actually want to operate a Robinhood Chain node, use the official docs — we just cosplayed the builder energy and shipped the meme.