Monthly report · 2026-09 · 2026-09-01 → 2026-10-01
Robinhood Chain builders, September 2026.
3,549 verified ships across 4 weeks, 825 new verified builders, 26 back to shipping.
Generated 2026-10-13 23:15 UTC from the archived weekly reports · JSON · CSV
- Verified ships
- 3,549
- Project-weeks shipping
- 1,620
- a project once per week it shipped in
- New verified builders
- 825
- Back to shipping
- 26
- Went quiet
- Not recorded
- Verified Builders on any chain
- 1,812
- as week 2026-W40 saw it; includes multi-chain integrators
- Pages published
- 4,907
- as week 2026-W40 saw it
Made of 4 weeks beginning in the month (2026-W37, 2026-W38, 2026-W39, 2026-W40), each read back from its archived final and added up — never recounted. Counted under weekly-ships-v1 and weekly-ships-v3 and weekly-ships-v7; a method marker sits where the rule changed.
Week by week
Each week as published, with the rule it was counted under.
- 2026-W37weekly-ships-v1
1427 verified ships from 605 projects, 332 new verified builders, 5,284 signals.
- 2026-W38weekly-ships-v1
1387 verified ships from 611 projects, 246 new verified builders, 3,741 signals.
- 2026-W39weekly-ships-v3
428 verified ships from 209 projects, 119 new verified builders, 3,389 signals.
- 2026-W40weekly-ships-v7
307 verified ships from 195 projects, 128 new verified builders, 3,537 signals.
Method changed between 2026-W38 and 2026-W39. Token launches, announcements, self-reported claims and multi-chain repositories stopped counting as ships, and a project’s week of code activity or prereleases counts once. A code-activity week HEY read in full and found to be documentation, maintenance or data only stopped counting. A rise or fall across this line is the method, not building.
Method changed between 2026-W39 and 2026-W40. A GitHub release cut from a rolling tag (latest, nightly, edge…) stopped counting, and the ones already counted were withdrawn. Code weeks of CI-only or automated commits stopped counting, a week of 25 or more commits came to need 3 code changes in a 10-commit sample, and date-stamped automated tags joined rolling tags. One repository’s full releases of one UTC day came to count once. A project’s follow-up contract deployments in the same second came to count once. A rise or fall across this line is the method, not building.
By narrative
Each primary narrative's month: ships, project-weeks, new verified builders, back to shipping, went quiet. Ordered by name — never a league table.
Not recorded: 2026-W37, 2026-W38, 2026-W39, 2026-W40 were written before the cuts existed.
By launchpad
Where the month's projects were launched, by name — counts of building, never a ranking by volume or price.
Not recorded: 2026-W37, 2026-W38, 2026-W39, 2026-W40 were written before the cuts existed.
Coverage
How much of the published catalogue HEY could read, by dimension, on the newest census day inside the month. States, never a score.
Census day 2026-09-30.
- API descriptionMeasured 6 · Not applicable 2,528 · Not enough yet 664 · Not researched yet 12 · No source 1,461 · Source unavailable 20
- Building activityMeasured 1,896 · Not enough yet 36 · Not researched yet 12 · No source 2,736 · Source unavailable 11
- Contract activityMeasured 2,615 · Not applicable 1,995 · Not enough yet 81
- Contract creationMeasured 2,683 · Not applicable 1,995 · Not enough yet 13
- Contract interfaceMeasured 2,362 · Not applicable 1,995 · Not enough yet 8 · No source 326
- Verified sourceMeasured 2,688 · Not applicable 1,995 · Not enough yet 8
- Supply distributionLast read failed 28 · Measured 1,173 · Not applicable 1,995 · Not enough yet 1,495
- Repository detailsMeasured 1,824 · Not applicable 2,865 · Source unavailable 2
- IdentityMeasured 4,679 · Not researched yet 12
- LocksMeasured 2,696 · Not applicable 1,995
- Current marketMeasured 2,586 · Not applicable 1,995 · Not enough yet 98 · Stale 6 · Withheld 6
- Market historyMeasured 2,624 · Not applicable 1,995 · Not enough yet 72
- Market checksMeasured 2,696 · Not applicable 1,995
- Official docsMeasured 300 · Not applicable 21 · Not enough yet 2 · Not researched yet 12 · No source 3,629 · Source unavailable 727
- Published packagesMeasured 1,711 · Not applicable 2,642 · Not enough yet 115 · No source 223
- Protocol economicsMeasured 112 · Not applicable 4,484 · Not enough yet 4 · No source 91
- ReleasesMeasured 1,845 · Not enough yet 36 · Not researched yet 12 · No source 2,787 · Source unavailable 11
- RepositoriesMeasured 1,833 · No source 2,844 · Source unavailable 14
- Package advisoriesMeasured 98 · Not applicable 4,592 · Not enough yet 1
- Official site changesMeasured 319 · Not enough yet 1,181 · Not researched yet 12 · No source 3,178 · Source unavailable 1
- TimelineMeasured 4,691
Chain context
Summed from the weeks' chain blocks: market context beside the report, never a builder measure and never beside a builder count.
- DEX trades
- 132,641,342
- Volume (USDG/WETH/ETH)
- $178B
- Launches HEY recorded
- 1,189,432
- Pages published in the weeks
- 2,665
Changelog — written under monthly report v1, weeks under weekly-ships-v1, weekly-ships-v3, weekly-ships-v7; today monthly report v1 · no change since
The report reads today as it was written.
A closed report is never rebuilt: a figure here is the figure as published, under the rule named above.
Cite as
The permalink, when it was generated and the rules it was counted under. The figures stay on this page with their labels.
HEY Research Lab, "Robinhood Chain builders, September 2026" (monthly report 2026-09, generated 2026-10-13 23:15 UTC; ships rules weekly-ships-v1, weekly-ships-v3, weekly-ships-v7; monthly report version 1). https://heyresearch.xyz/reports/monthly/2026-09Every figure is the archived weeks' own, added up at generation time and kept. Market figures are context and never rank anything. Not a buy signal.