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

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

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

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

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

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.