Robinhood Chain memecoin launchpad Vlad.fun halts after ‘internal integrity’ issue
Summary
Robinhood Chain memecoin launchpad Vlad.fun has suspended operations after detecting a “serious internal integrity issue” involving its own team. It took the platform offline while investigating and consulting legal counsel about possible action, but did not disclose the misconduct. Earlier the same day, it warned users that a token using the Vlad.fun name on its leaderboard was unofficial, noting that anyone can create tokens on the permissionless launchpad. Robinhood Chain launched July 1 as an Arbitrum-based Ethereum layer 2 for tokenized stocks, real-world assets, and onchain financial services, but memecoins quickly became its main use case.
