Arcus

Arcus is a self-custodial decentralized exchange built on Robinhood Chain, bringing traditional financial markets onchain through tokenized stocks and perpetual futures. The platform combines 24/7 trading with 0% Arcus trading fees on Spot markets and leveraged exposure to stocks, crypto, commodities and indices, with up to 50x leverage on perpetual markets.

Its Stock Tokens are issued by Bitstamp and designed to track the economic value of underlying equities, including the reinvestment of dividends into the assets backing each token. Arcus also operates an order-book trading model designed to support efficient execution and liquidity.

Developed by a team with experience at dYdX in partnership with Robinhood Crypto, which has also invested in the project, Arcus is led by founder and CEO Eddie Zhang, President of dYdX and founder of Pocket Protector.

The exchange runs an official Arcus Points program, rewarding trading, market making, retained deposits and referrals, with additional incentives for selected real-world asset activities. Its multi-level referral program offers trading-fee commissions and discounts for invited users.

During its private beta, Arcus reported over $5 billion in trading volume, more than 15,000 unique traders, $500 million in peak daily volume and over $25 million in total value locked, highlighting early adoption of its onchain trading platform.