Powering 24/7 global markets with Arcus
How Arcus uses Privy to build a seamless trading experience for tokenized equities and perpetuals on Robinhood Chain
Debbie Soon
|Jul 22, 2026
Traditional markets were built around trading hours, geographic borders, and financial intermediaries. While crypto proved that financial markets can be global, programmable, and always on, most traditional assets remain locked behind legacy infrastructure.
Built by the team behind dYdX, Arcus is rethinking what a modern exchange looks like. Launching on Robinhood Chain, Arcus combines tokenized equities and perpetual markets into a single platform that gives traders around the world access to capital markets around the clock.
To deliver that experience, Arcus chose Privy as the wallet infrastructure behind every trading account. Every user receives a self-custodial wallet that combines the simplicity of a modern trading app with the security, ownership, and performance required for high-frequency onchain trading.
Bringing global markets onchain
Arcus was built around the idea that markets shouldn't close because the clock says so.
Launching with more than 95 tokenized equities, Arcus gives users around the world 24/7 access to stocks, commodities, and other assets that have traditionally been limited by market hours and geography. Alongside spot trading, users can also trade perpetual futures, derivatives that let traders take long or short positions without owning the underlying asset.
Built on Robinhood Chain's tokenized asset infrastructure, every tokenized equity is backed 1:1 while remaining fully onchain, allowing users to trade, self-custody, and move assets across the broader ecosystem.
As the platform evolves, Arcus will also introduce a unified cross-margin account, allowing traders to use multiple assets, such as tokenized equities and crypto, as collateral across positions. Instead of managing separate balances for different markets, users can deploy their capital more efficiently through a single trading account.
Reimagining the trading account
For Arcus, the wallet isn't simply where assets are stored. It's the account through which users access markets.
By using Privy, Arcus gives every user an account that combines the familiarity of a modern trading platform with the ownership and interoperability of onchain assets. Users can trade, hold tokenized equities, manage collateral, and participate across the broader onchain ecosystem, all through a wallet that's seamlessly integrated into the product.
Why Arcus chose Privy
Using Privy, Arcus can deliver:
Self-custodial embedded wallets for every user
Hardware-isolated key management secured by Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs)
Low-latency transaction signing
Production-ready wallet infrastructure built to scale
Seamless authentication across web and mobile
For a high-performance exchange, wallets are critical infrastructure. Privy provides the security, performance, and reliability Arcus needs to deliver responsive trading while preserving self-custody, allowing the team to focus on building the future of global markets.
A new model for global markets
The tokenization of equities, commodities, and other real-world assets is reshaping how global markets are accessed. Rather than existing in separate systems, these assets can increasingly be traded, held, and used together within a single onchain account.
Historically, traders opened brokerage accounts to access markets. As more financial assets move onchain, the wallet is becoming that account, giving users a single place to trade, hold, and move value across asset classes.
Arcus is showing what happens when tokenized assets, self-custodial wallets, and modern market infrastructure come together in a single product. Privy is proud to provide the wallet infrastructure behind that experience.
