FIRST MOVER: How Robinhood and Arbitrum Hope to Bring More People On-Chain
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🗓️ 7 March 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Offchain Labs Chief Strategy Officer AJ Warner joins Robinhood Crypto General Manager Johann Kerbrat for a conversation on Layer 2 developments and bringing the next waves of users on-chain.
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Trading platform Robinhood announced recently at ETHDenver that it will allow users of its Robinhood Wallet to access swaps on Arbitrum, a layer-2 blockchain atop Ethereum. AJ Warner, Chief Strategy Officer at Offchain Labs, joins Robinhood Crypto General Manager Johann Kerbrat on "First Mover" to discuss the partnership and their outlook for Layer 2 developments and user onboarding.
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| 0:00.0 | Robin Hood and Arbitrum announced a new partnership during East Denver. The collaboration is going to |
| 0:05.1 | allow Robin Hood wallet users to interact with Arbitrum, which is the layer two on top of Ethereum. |
| 0:11.9 | The two entities are working together to support access to cross-chain swaps and other campaigns |
| 0:17.5 | that lower the barriers to use Web 3 on Robin Hood wallet. |
| 0:22.6 | Joining me now is OffChane Labs chief strategy officer, AJ Warner. |
| 0:27.3 | Offchain Labs is a core developer of the Arbitrum Protocol and Robin Hood Crypto General Manager, |
| 0:34.0 | Johan Kerratt. |
| 0:35.3 | Welcome both of you. |
| 0:36.8 | Thank you for having you,en good to see you too |
| 0:40.0 | eve denver was crazy how was it for both of you i think i told you before the show i'm still recovering |
| 0:46.3 | yeah i mean it was it was a it was a wide week uh between the announcement and the energy was |
| 0:53.9 | really high and so really exciting. |
| 0:56.0 | I don't know about you, IJ. |
| 0:57.0 | Yeah, no, there was a lot going on in Denver. |
| 1:00.0 | Obviously the announcement was the highlight. |
| 1:02.0 | Got to, you know, meet with a lot of different arbitral community members, delegates, protocols |
| 1:07.0 | that are building on top and, you know, digesting feedback is always really important. |
| 1:15.2 | And it was great to see positive energy throughout the Arborchimp community and also the broader space. I think we all, you know, it was nice to see people energized this year. |
| 1:21.4 | Yeah, the news has been out for just about a week. Ethan Ver just wrapped up days ago. |
| 1:27.4 | What kind of response have you received from |
| 1:30.6 | the community? Let's talk about first folks who are using the Robin Hood wallet and then we'll |
| 1:36.7 | switch over to Arbitrum. So Johan, what kind of response have you received so far? |
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