Hayden Adams: Robinhood Chain's Golden Start and Uniswap Chain's Trump Card

According to Odaily, on July 14th in Tokyo, at WebX 2026 organized by Coinpost, Uniswap Labs founder and CEO Hayden Adams said during a fireside chat that the most discussed industry hotspot recently is the explosive growth of Robinhood Chain. As a leading fintech company, Robinhood’s own chain features both Meme assets (which is undoubtedly a good sign for a new chain) and RWA (even more exciting and anticipated). Robinhood Chain has the opportunity to become a bridge connecting traditional assets on-chain with crypto-native assets.

Although it is currently a bear market and industry morale is low, entrepreneurial teams always have to face different market timing and luck, yet continue to move forward. When Uniswap had just launched, the market was extremely poor, and no one believed that crypto had a future. In this cycle at least there are adoption expectations, and existing businesses and assets still show a trend toward digitalization and tokenization.

For entrepreneurs, the benefits of building their own chain are obvious—assets can connect to global users faster through crypto, otherwise they would have to deal with infrastructure, regulatory policies, market makers, and other startup costs.

Uniswap Chain often explains the fundamentals of crypto to traditional finance clients, introducing that the core appeal of the crypto model is the sufficiently low cost of global asset circulation. However, there are major obstacles: once clients hear “crypto,” they get nervous—not only do they lack trust, but they also have to deal with various protocols, standards, and ecosystems within the crypto industry.

Uniswap’s advantage is the reputation it has built over the past few years, and its ultimate goal is to become the liquidity layer for global on-chain assets. Uniswap is continuously improving its infrastructure and ecosystem version by version, while also advancing a thousand different initiatives—reaching out to external partners, supporting more token issuances, building more customized asset liquidity solutions, and so on. Specifically for this year, the main focus will be on RWA.