- Purpose-built for performance: The Arcus exchange was designed to reliably offer 20ms confirmation time for 100k+ orders per second, all without compromising the security and transparency benefits offered by public blockchains.
- Protocol-native liquidity: Arcus perps trade on a central limit order book with committed market makers; Stock Token spot trades execute via RFQ on the same blockchain network. Liquidity is unified at the protocol level rather than fragmented across builder-deployed markets, vaults, or permissionless tiers, so depth concentrates as the venue scales.
- Direct exposure to equities: most on-chain venues offer no equity exposure; Arcus lists Equity Perps alongside crypto, commodities, and indices.
- Backed Stock Tokens: backed by real shares held in regulated custody, redeemable with Bitstamp for cash value, rather than purely synthetic oracle constructions.
- Robinhood as strategic partner: a strategic investment via Robinhood Crypto, and Arcus built on Robinhood Chain, Robinhood’s own layer-2 blockchain.
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