How the deskworks.

$STKD is a Bloomberg-style trading desk and product layer for Robinhood Stock Tokens on Robinhood Chain (chain ID 4663).

You can look at live tokenized stocks, buy and sell them, and compose them into products — indexes, split series, and strategy vaults — without treating those tokens as brokerage shares.

Onchain products on top of Robinhood Stock Tokens. Exposure to stocks and ETFs as ERC-20s, plus tools to basket, split, and manage that exposure.

A Stock Token is tokenized economic exposure to an underlying stock or ETF. It is an 18-decimal ERC-20 on Robinhood Chain. It is not legal or beneficial ownership of the underlying security.

Only Robinhood authorized participants mint and burn with Robinhood Assets Jersey. $STKD composes with tokens that already exist. Nothing here is investment, legal, tax, or financial advice.

The terminal is three panes:

• Left rail — searchable Stock Tokens and indexes.
• Center — chart, holders, and transfers for the selected name.
• Right rail — order ticket and a live Activity feed. On Portfolio, Activity fills the rail.

Create opens a drawer: Index or Split series. Deploy confirms in a modal. Image uploads go to Pinata only when you confirm deploy.

Connect a wallet on Robinhood Chain. The API prepares unsigned transactions. Your wallet signs them. The server does not hold keys.

The ticket lists the desk book of Stock Tokens. The desk shows last sale / RHJ ask, Nasdaq session %, chart, holders, and onchain transfers.

Buy and sell are live Uniswap swaps against USDG. Preview lists every v3 and v4 USDG pool that quotes for your size. You pick one (best fill is marked). v4 goes through Permit2 and the Universal Router; v3 uses SwapRouter02. No pool means no send — the desk will not invent a fill.

A desk buy is a wallet swap. It is not a vault mint, and it is not ownership of the stock.

An index is a vault that holds a basket of Stock Tokens. Create deploys an empty vault. You deposit after.

The live cash path is USDG. Enter an amount. The vault splits it by target weights and buys each name on that token’s USDG Uniswap pool (same venues as the desk ticket). There is no INDEX/USDG pool. In-kind is if you already hold the names: approve each token and depositInKind.

• Basket names must be on AssetRegistry (AAPL, NVDA, MSFT, TSLA, GOOGL, META, AMZN, AMD today). NFLX and AVGO cannot go in a vault until Chainlink publishes those feeds.
• At least 2 and at most 25 Stock Tokens.
• Weights must sum to 10,000 bps (100%).
• Default management fee is 50 bps per year (0.50%).
• No protocol deposit fee. Uniswap pool fee and slippage apply on the USDG path.
• Live vaults accrue the fee by minting index shares to the fee recipient.

Redeem burns index tokens. USDG out sells the pro-rata basket on Uniswap and pays you cash. In-kind returns the Stock Tokens instead. No approve — the vault is the index ERC-20. Index tokens are exposure to the basket, not ownership of Apple or anything else in it.

Stock Token price

Price of one Stock Token, not one brokerage share.

Do not apply uiMultiplier() to Chainlink. That feed is already multiplier-adjusted. GET /rhj/prices/{symbol} is raw underlying bid/ask, so offchain quotes multiply by currentMultiplier. Use ask, not mid.

Index price (NAV per token)

The index token price is vault NAV divided by supply. It is not a weighted average of stock prices.

NAV = Σ (Bᵢ × Pᵢ)
P_idx = $1 if S = 0 or NAV ≤ 0
P_idx = NAV / S otherwise

Empty vault / first mint: P_idx = $1. A first deposit of V USD mints V shares. Do not use Σ wᵢ Pᵢ. That is an index level and does not match a vault share that starts at $1.

If the vault is empty, session change still needs a basket. Implied units for a $1 target-weight slice:

Bᵢ = wᵢ / Pᵢ
wᵢ = targetWeightBps / 10,000
Σ wᵢ = 1

Session percentage change

Same meaning as a stock’s Nasdaq day change: return of P_idx versus session open. There is no stored prior-close NAV yet. Open is rebuilt from each constituent’s Nasdaq move rᵢ:

rᵢ = Δ%ᵢ / 100
P_open,i = Pᵢ / (1 + rᵢ)
NAV_now = Σ Bᵢ Pᵢ
NAV_open = Σ Bᵢ P_open,i
Δ%_idx = (NAV_now − NAV_open) / NAV_open × 100

Supply cancels when S is unchanged, so this is also the return of P_idx. Skip a leg if Pᵢ, Bᵢ, or Nasdaq Δ%ᵢ is missing, or if rᵢ ≤ −1. If nothing remains, percentageChange is null.

Example: 1 AAPL token at $110 (+10%) and 2 MSFT tokens at $50 (−20%). Open prices are 100 and 125. NAV now 210, NAV open 225. Δ% = (210 − 225) / 225 × 100 = −6.67%.

Stocks on the desk still use Nasdaq percentageChange directly. Indexes never invent a letter-seed change.

A split series locks one Stock Token and mints a price token plus a drip token. There is no USDG-in. Buy the name on Uniswap first, then split.

• Split takes 10 bps and mints the net amount of each child.
• Merge both sides anytime to unlock the Stock Token. Merge is free.
• Maturity must be 7–1,825 days out.
• After maturity, settle freezes dT. Price redeems a × d0 / dT of the locked token. Drip redeems a × (dT − d0) / dT minus 5%.
• Drip is a claim on remaining uiMultiplier() growth. It is not a cash dividend and does not expire.

Management fee on a series is 0–500 bps per year. Default in the create flow is 50 bps.

A strategy vault holds Stock Tokens under a mandate (sector, yield, and similar). Depositors get vault-token exposure, not the stocks themselves. Price is the same NAV-per-share idea as an index: holdings × token prices ÷ supply.

50 bps means 0.50% per year. 10 bps means 0.10% of the split amount. Protocol fee bps of 2,000 means 20% of that collected fee, not 20% of AUM.

Portfolio shows onchain balances for the connected wallet: USDG cash, index tokens, and Stock Tokens. Equity is cash plus marked positions. Stock Token value uses the same RHJ ask mid the desk uses. Index value uses vault NAV × shares when the API provides it.

This book is exposure. It is not a brokerage statement of share ownership.

The right-rail Activity panel is a websocket of app events: live buys, sells, creates, splits, merges, deposits, and redeems. It is not the same as the selected token’s onchain transfer list in the center pane.

uiMultiplier() is a shares-per-token ratio scaled by 1e18. Use it only for share-equivalent display:

share-equivalent = raw balance × uiMultiplier / 1e18

Do not multiply Chainlink stock-token prices by the multiplier. Those feeds are already adjusted. During corporate actions, treat oraclePaused() as price temporarily unavailable. Staleness remains the primary guard.

Terminal (Next.js)
    → API (NestJS)
        → Robinhood RHJ — assets, prices, corporate actions
        → Robinhood Chain — balances, vaults, transfers
        → Uniswap v3 / v4 — USDG ↔ Stock Token pools
    → Contracts — IndexVault, SplitVault, TradeExecutor, factories, oracles, fees

The asset list and prices come from Robinhood, not a hardcoded watchlist. The backend prepares unsigned transactions. Wallets sign. The server does not hold keys.

Shared infra is live on Robinhood Chain (chain ID 4663). These six addresses are protocol-wide. They are not stored per index in the database.

Create Index and Create Split talk to the factories. After a product deploys, the new vault address is what the desk saves on that product.

Admin / deployer: 0x02BE958CFb5973118448B0c7CA2B63B583ff7AE2. USDG: 0x5fc5360D0400a0Fd4f2af552ADD042D716F1d168.

Per product

Factories create these when you deploy from the desk. The API then writes the vault onto the product row.

• Not a licensed broker-dealer or a way to buy the actual stock.
• Not legal or beneficial ownership of any underlying share.
• Not investment, legal, tax, or financial advice.
• Not a share-equivalent index level like SPX.

Official Robinhood context: Stock Tokens, building guide, oracles.