Trading Bots is one of the busiest categories on HoodScan, the live leaderboard for open-source projects built for and around Robinhood Chain, Robinhood's L2 on the Arbitrum Orbit stack. Of the 71 repositories we scan, 50 make the index, and the trading tools split into two generations: an older layer of Robinhood brokerage automation that predates the chain, and a newer wave of bots aimed at the L2 itself. Together they say a lot about where execution on the chain is heading.
The API layer came first
The base of the category is jmfernandes/robin_stocks, a Python library with 2,104 stars that wraps the Robinhood API for programmatic trading. Nearly every homegrown Robinhood bot imports it somewhere. It is not chain-aware, but it set the interface habits newer projects still copy: simple auth, order helpers, readable market data calls.
Above it sit the strategy tools. torreyleonard/algotrader, at 665 stars, is a Node.js system for automated technical analysis and order routing. anilshanbhag/RobinhoodShell, at 422 stars, goes the other way: a command-line shell for fast manual orders without opening the app. Both predate the chain and both still pick up forks.
All three are indexed on HoodScan as ecosystem projects: widely used, though not built directly for the chain.
The chain-native wave
The newer arrivals look different. Of the 50 indexed repositories, 26 are tier-1, built directly for Robinhood Chain, and a growing share are execution tools aimed at on-chain markets rather than the brokerage API.
The targets sit on our Markets tab, which pulls live Robinhood Chain DEX pools from GeckoTerminal and refreshes every 60 seconds. USDG turned over $106M in 24 hours, CASHCAT $23M, VIRTUAL $14M, TENDIES $9.6M. Pools with that depth are what arbitrage and market-making bots need.
The Recently Listed feed shows the supply side responding: labrinyang/lp-terminal, krillintel/krill and itsfriedpotato/potatopad are the latest arrivals. None of them touch the old brokerage API. They assume a wallet, a DEX and a block explorer, a different mental model from the robin_stocks generation.
The category also benefits from the gravity of the wider ecosystem. robinhood/faust, the top repo on the whole leaderboard, holds 6,824 stars and a HoodScan Score of 137, and serious infrastructure at the top tends to attract serious execution tooling underneath it.
How the ranking reads them
Raw star counts mislead here, so a note on scoring. The HoodScan Score combines stars, recent activity, tier and community boosts, which lets a small chain-native bot with steady commits outrank a dormant library.
What the Trading Bots category shows today:
- robin_stocks remains the most-starred trading repo in the index at 2,104 stars.
- algotrader (665 stars) and RobinhoodShell (422) anchor the pre-chain generation.
- 26 tier-1 repos are built directly for Robinhood Chain.
- The newest bots target DEX pools, not the brokerage API.
- Repos with farmed star-bot activity are filtered out before ranking.
Community input counts too. Anyone can Boost a repo, a free +1 signal, one per repo per day, no wallet needed. For young execution tools that have not had time to accumulate stars, a boost is the fastest way to surface while the commit history speaks for itself.
Where the category is heading
The sequence is familiar from other chains. First come wrappers around existing brokerage or exchange APIs, then wallet-native execution tools, then specialized infrastructure: LP managers, intelligence feeds, routing layers. Robinhood Chain is moving through it quickly, because tokenized stocks give bots a target most other L2s lack.
Expect the next batch of listings to blur category lines. A bot trading tokenized equities on-chain is a trading bot, an RWA tool and a DeFi integration at once. Labels will adapt; the scoring will not need to, since it already rewards shipping over labels.
If you are building a trading tool for Robinhood Chain, new listings appear in the Recently Listed feed and enter scoring from day one. For the current picture, the Trading Bots category on hoodscan.space updates continuously, behind the same filters that keep farmed star-bot repos out.
