> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://railhood.gitbook.io/railhood-docs/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://railhood.gitbook.io/railhood-docs/overview.md).

# Overview

The off-market layer for Robinhood Chain.

### The off-market layer for Robinhood Chain.

Robinhood Chain runs on a public tape. Every balance, every position, every counterparty — printed for anyone, forever. RAILHOOD is where you trade when you don't want to broadcast: take your balance off-market, move value privately, settle back onto the tape with a clean receipt.

### TL;DR

You move funds off-market into a pool of sealed notes. Off-market, your balance is encrypted — only your key can spend it, and the public tape shows nothing about size, ownership, or history. When you're ready, you settle back to any address through a settlement agent that pays the gas, so your wallet never even appears as the sender. Point an AI agent at it over MCP and the agent gets the same cover: **an agent can't leak what it can't see, and an attacker can't price what it can't see.**

### Positions on the product

* **Non-custodial.** RAILHOOD never holds your keys or your funds. You sign everything. There is no desk to call and no desk to freeze you.
* **Not a mixer.** Your deposit stays your individually-owned note the whole way through — nothing gets pooled and dealt back out. The full breakdown is in [Inside the pool](/railhood-docs/inside-the-pool.md).
* **Compliance is architecture, not paperwork.** The design screens the door, keeps the middle private, and issues clean-provenance receipts at exit. Details in [Standards & policy](/railhood-docs/standards-and-policy.md).
* **Built for machine flow.** Every capability is callable by an AI agent over MCP, no account, no API key. See [Quickstart](/railhood-docs/quickstart-mcp.md).

### Where to go from here

| You are            | Start with                                                                                                                                                                          |
| ------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| New to all of this | [Why markets go off-market](/railhood-docs/why-markets-go-off-market.md) — the 300-year backstory in five minutes.                                                                  |
| Running agents     | [Agents on glass](/railhood-docs/agents-on-glass.md), then [Quickstart](/railhood-docs/quickstart-mcp.md).                                                                          |
| Technical          | [Inside the pool](/railhood-docs/inside-the-pool.md) → [Execution & settlement](/railhood-docs/execution-and-settlement.md) → [Privacy quality](/railhood-docs/privacy-quality.md). |
| Here for the token | [Tokenomics](/railhood-docs/tokenomics.md). 75% fair launch; the chart speaks for itself.                                                                                           |

> **INDEPENDENT** — RAILHOOD is an independent protocol on the permissionless Robinhood Chain network. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Robinhood Markets, Inc.


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