Palo Alto · 2015 · 69 feet of cats

Put a Cat
on it.

Before it was a meme, it was paint on a wall. Robinhood's real ritual, whenever you have an idea, make it a little more fun, got its biggest canvas in a hand-painted Robin Hood cats mural. $PACOI carries it on-chain.

Robin Hood cat archer and cat knights wall, 2015 Robinhood mural in Palo Alto
The archer wall, Robinhood HQ.© Nigel Sussman

On July 1, 2026, Robinhood Chain mainnet went live — an Ethereum L2 built on Arbitrum, made for tokenized real-world assets and 24/7 markets. Every new chain gets its meme. This one doesn’t need to invent it: the cat ritual was already inside the company.

The Block — Robinhood Chain goes live on mainnet ↗
The Real Walls

Sixty-nine feet, nine days

In 2015 muralist Nigel Sussman brainstormed with the founders — the company name's imagery plus the team's love of cats — and hand-painted Robin Hood cats across the Palo Alto office. These are the real photographs.

  • ◆69ft × 10ft main wall
  • ◆three more walls, ~12ft × 18ft each
  • ◆9 days, hand-painted
  • ◆commercial-grade exterior house paint
Robin Hood cat archer and cat knights wall, 2015 Robinhood mural in Palo Alto
The archer wall: a hooded cat with a bow, cat knights marching behind.© Sussman
Cat coachman and carriage corner of the 2015 Robinhood mural
The carriage corner: a cat coachman hauling loot through the forest.© Sussman
Wide shot of the real Robinhood Palo Alto office with cat murals on the walls
The real office: the murals wrapping Robinhood HQ, Palo Alto.© Sussman
Mural detail: a catapult loaded with a ball of yarn
Detail: a catapult loaded with a ball of yarn. The brief said cat puns.© Sussman
The Ritual

Whenever you have an idea

Inside Robinhood there was a rule for ideas that felt too much like a bank: “put a cat on it” — make it a little bit more fun. Not a slogan on a poster. A ritual co-workers actually said to each other.

In 2015 the ritual got its biggest canvas. Muralist Nigel Sussman brainstormed with the founders — the company name’s imagery plus the team’s love of cats — and hand-painted 69 feet of Robin Hood cats across the Palo Alto office in 9 days.

It never stopped at the walls: every conference room had cat art, new hires got the figurines pointed out on day one, and the app itself hid a cat that winks when you swipe to the end of your cards.

$PACOI carries that ritual to Robinhood Chain. The gate is open. Put a cat on it.

Receipts

Every claim, sourced

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Robinhood had a ritual of telling co-workers to "put a cat on it". It's a very unique Robinhood thing.

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whenever you have an idea, just "put a cat on it" – make it a little bit more fun.

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every conference room in the office had some sort of cat art

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when you swipe on the cards in the home screen and you get to the very end, you have a cat that winks at you

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combining imagery from the company's name and the team's love of cats.

How to enter

Through the gate

Contract TBA · Robinhood Chain

  1. 1Gate 1Get some ETH.
  2. 2Gate 2Bridge to Robinhood Chain via the official bridge (link goes live at launch).
  3. 3Gate 3Swap into $PACOI once the pool is live.
  4. 4Gate 4Hold. Put a cat on it.