NOXA, a memecoin launchpad running on Robinhood's newly launched Layer-2 network, halted new token creation on July 11 and went dark two days later, right at the moment it was outearning Pump.fun.

Robinhood launched its Arbitrum-based L2 on July 2, 2026, pitching it as infrastructure for real-world asset tokenization. Within eight days, a memecoin platform had taken over the chain. NOXA skipped the bonding-curve model that Pump.fun uses and instead routed tokens straight into single-sided Uniswap V3 pools with permanently locked liquidity. Trading started instantly, with no migration step, which meant external bots and DeFi tooling could plug in from day one.

Nine Days, $12 Million, Then Nothing

The numbers moved fast. Flagship token Cash Cat ($CASHCAT) hit a $200 million market cap within a week. By July 13, NOXA was pulling in $1.94 million in daily fees, beating Pump.fun's $1.61 million on the same day. Over its brief run the platform processed close to 60,000 tokens, attracted more than 293,000 active addresses, and captured roughly 75% of all new token issuance on Robinhood Chain. Total protocol fees came to around $12 million in under two weeks, according to DeFiLlama data.

Then it stopped. Token creation was paused on July 11 without any announcement. The main domain went offline on July 13, with the team saying the registrar had seized or resold the URL, offering no elaboration. A fallback portal through Ethereum Name Service appeared on July 15. Alongside it came a structural change: NOXA dropped its own fee cut entirely and redirected 100% of future secondary trading revenue to token creators. Post-shutdown, the platform's token metrics retracted more than 30%, per Coin Bureau tracking.

Whether NOXA's exit was planned, forced, or somewhere in between remains unclear. The ENS portal is live, the team has not elaborated further, and the chain it briefly dominated is still less than a month old.

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