Isthmus is the liquidity route between tokenized real-world assets and open DeFi — routing fees, staking, and governance through a single token, native to Robinhood Chain.
Two worlds, one crossing
Robinhood Chain brings stocks and ETFs on-chain as tradeable tokens, open around the clock. Isthmus is the narrow strip of infrastructure that lets that value move — routed into lending markets, AMMs, and yield strategies without leaving the chain.
What the token does
$ISTH isn't a passive holding — it does specific work inside the protocol.
A share of the fees generated whenever value crosses between tokenized assets and DeFi pools is distributed to $ISTH stakers, paid in the assets being routed.
Holding and staking $ISTH lowers the cost of moving assets across the crossing, rewarding the traders and market-makers who use the route most.
Which assets get routed, which DeFi protocols get connected, and how fees are split — all decided by $ISTH holders through on-chain votes.
Built on Robinhood Chain
Robinhood Chain is a permissionless layer-2 network built on Arbitrum technology, purpose-built for tokenized real-world assets and on-chain finance. Isthmus is built to sit directly on top of it.
Tokenomics
Illustrative allocation below — final figures will be published in the litepaper before launch.
$ISTH is a utility and governance token. It is not a security, deposit, or guarantee of yield — protocol rewards vary with routed volume.
Roadmap
Deploy the routing contracts on Robinhood Chain's testnet alongside early DeFi partners.
$ISTH goes live on Robinhood Chain mainnet with the first routed pairs between stock tokens and lending markets.
Open staking for $ISTH holders and begin distributing routed fees.
Route and partner decisions move to on-chain votes by $ISTH holders.
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