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Robinhood Chain builders, October 2026.

Monthly report · 2026-10 · 2026-10-01 → 2026-11-01

Under today's rule (source-corroborated building evidence on projects built here, maintenance-only and automated code weeks and rolling tags left out, one release per repository per day, one deployment per run of contracts, blog articles, other-chain entries and aggregator feeds left out), from today's records over the same weeks: 1,185 counted ships and 681 project-weeks shipping.

As published: 976 ship records as published across 4 weeks, under 2 counting rules, 374 new Verified Builders, 18 back to shipping.

Counts the closed ISO weeks that begin in October 2026, Monday to Monday (UTC), each as its weekly report published it, added up.

Generated 2026-11-08 00:28 UTC from the archived weekly reports · JSON · CSV

Ship records as published (2 rules)
976
each week as published, added up
Project-weeks shipping
612
a project once per week it shipped in
New Verified Builders
374
Back to shipping
18
Went quiet
Not recorded
Verified Builders with Robinhood Chain evidence
1,210
as week 2026-W44 saw it
Verified Builders on any chain
1,210
as week 2026-W44 saw it; includes multi-chain integrators
Pages published
5,325
as week 2026-W44 saw it

Made of 4 weeks beginning in the month (2026-W41, 2026-W42, 2026-W43, 2026-W44), each read back from its archived final and added up — never recounted. Counted under weekly-ships-v7 and weekly-ships-v10; a method marker sits where the rule changed.

Week by week

Each week as published, with the rule it was counted under.

  1. 2026-W41weekly-ships-v7

    267 counted ships from 161 projects, 111 new Verified Builders, 2,968 signals.

  2. 2026-W42weekly-ships-v10

    246 counted ships from 156 projects, 102 new Verified Builders, 1,977 signals.

  3. 2026-W43weekly-ships-v10

    206 counted ships from 148 projects, 79 new Verified Builders, 1,655 signals.

  4. 2026-W44weekly-ships-v10

    257 counted ships from 147 projects, 82 new Verified Builders, 1,436 signals.

Method changed between 2026-W41 and 2026-W42. A project’s follow-up contract deployments each within 60 seconds of the one before came to count once, not only those in the same second. A code week whose commits only moved dependency versions in a manifest (package.json, Cargo.toml, go.mod and the like) and its lockfile stopped counting, as a lockfile alone already had. Feed entries that are blog articles, section headings, republished copies, posts about another chain only, or another project’s releases relayed by an aggregator stopped counting. 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-W41 was 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-W41 was 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 2026-10-31.

  • API descriptionNot tied to the project yet 54 · Measured 33 · Not applicable 2,751 · Not enough yet 147 · Not researched yet 58 · No source 1,992 · Source unavailable 279
  • Building activityMeasured 2,024 · Not enough yet 66 · Not researched yet 58 · No source 3,151 · Source unavailable 15
  • Contract activityMeasured 2,831 · Not applicable 2,063 · Not enough yet 62 · Partly measured 358
  • Contract creationMeasured 3,246 · Not applicable 2,063 · Not enough yet 5
  • Contract interfaceMeasured 3,007 · Not applicable 2,063 · Not enough yet 3 · No source 241
  • Published source codeMeasured 3,248 · Not applicable 2,062 · Not enough yet 3 · Stale 1
  • Supply distributionLast read failed 1 · Measured 2,341 · Not applicable 2,063 · Not enough yet 909
  • Repository detailsMeasured 1,944 · Not applicable 3,370
  • IdentityMeasured 5,256 · Not researched yet 58
  • LocksMeasured 3,251 · Not applicable 2,063
  • Current marketMeasured 3,120 · Not applicable 2,063 · Not enough yet 78 · Stale 44 · Withheld 9
  • Market historyMeasured 3,208 · Not applicable 2,063 · Not enough yet 43
  • Market checksMeasured 3,251 · Not applicable 2,063
  • Official docsNot tied to the project yet 467 · Measured 560 · Not applicable 29 · Not enough yet 2 · Not researched yet 58 · No source 3,822 · Source unavailable 376
  • Published packagesMeasured 1,827 · Not applicable 3,103 · Not enough yet 121 · No source 263
  • Protocol economicsMeasured 156 · Not applicable 5,024 · Not enough yet 3 · No source 129 · Stale 2
  • ReleasesMeasured 1,977 · Not enough yet 66 · Not researched yet 58 · No source 3,198 · Source unavailable 15
  • RepositoriesNot tied to the project yet 94 · Measured 1,960 · No source 3,221 · Source unavailable 39
  • Package advisoriesMeasured 82 · Not applicable 5,231 · Not enough yet 1
  • Official site changesNot tied to the project yet 2,078 · Measured 1,356 · Not enough yet 132 · Not researched yet 58 · No source 1,302 · Source unavailable 364 · Stale 24
  • TimelineMeasured 5,314

Uniswap v4 hooks on Robinhood Chain

The newest week's block (2026-W44), as stored; the week's report has the method and limits.

HEY has seen 30,706 Uniswap v4 hook contracts on Robinhood Chain (1,061 first decoded this week); 138 are tied to 48 published projects and listed.

The week's hook block

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
62,644,210
Volume (USDG/WETH/ETH)
$36B
Launches HEY recorded
314,243
Pages published in the weeks
1,600
Changelog — written under monthly report v2, weeks under weekly-ships-v7, weekly-ships-v10; today monthly report v2 · 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, October 2026" (monthly report 2026-10, generated 2026-11-08 00:28 UTC; ships rules weekly-ships-v7, weekly-ships-v10; monthly report version 2). https://heyresearch.xyz/reports/monthly/2026-10

Every 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.