How to Tell a Real Stock Token From a Lookalike

A ticker is not an identity. Three checks, all readable on-chain, separate an official Robinhood stock token from a copy.

Anyone can deploy a token called NVDA. On Robinhood Chain, many people have. When we last resolved our asset list, the search results for our 36 tickers contained 38 other tokens trading under the same names, from near-empty pools to tokens with polished logos and whole communities behind them.

Official Robinhood stock tokens share one piece of code. Each one is a small proxy that points at the same Robinhood-controlled contract, called a beacon. A copy can use the same name and symbol, but it cannot point at that beacon and still be a Robinhood token, because only Robinhood can issue through it.

So the check has three parts. First, the contract's own code must reference Robinhood's beacon. Second, its symbol must be exactly the ticker. Third, its name must end in "Robinhood Token", the suffix every official token carries. The terminal applies all three to every asset it lists.

The lookalike checker on the terminal page runs the same test on any address you paste. It reads the answer from the contract itself on Robinhood Chain, not from a list we maintain, so it works for tokens we have never seen.

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