# Hooder Hooder is a slang term and meme associated with traders in the Robinhood ecosystem, especially memecoin traders on Robinhood Chain. The term evolved from earlier expressions such as "Robin Hooder" and "Robinhooder," which were used as nicknames for users of the Robinhood trading app as early as 2019–2020. After Robinhood Chain launched in July 2026 and quickly developed an active memecoin scene, "Hooder" was revived as a broader identity for chain-native traders, degens, and community members. ## Origin The word Hooder has a longer history than most meme encyclopedias currently acknowledge. The earliest artifact is a GitHub userscript literally named "Robinhooder," created September 28, 2019 [1], which enhanced the Robinhood website. By May 2020, a Reddit post in r/RobinHoodPennyStocks opened with "Good Afternoon My Fellow Robin Hooders" [2], with the author calling himself a "weary RobinHooder." By August 8, 2020, the standalone word "Hooder" was being used, with one Redditor writing "I've been a Hooder... for about 3.5 years now" [3], clearly referring to being a Robinhood brokerage user. Japanese financial writing from the period even described "Robinhooder" as a newly coined term for Robinhood users [5]. - **Platform:** Reddit / GitHub (2019-2020), revived on Robinhood Chain (2026) - **Creator:** Robinhood trading community - **Date:** 2019 ## Overview Hooder is a slang term and meme associated with traders in the Robinhood ecosystem, especially memecoin traders on Robinhood Chain. The term evolved from earlier expressions such as "Robin Hooder" and "Robinhooder," which were used as nicknames for users of the Robinhood trading app as early as 2019–2020. After Robinhood Chain launched in July 2026 and quickly developed an active memecoin scene, "Hooder" was revived as a broader identity for chain-native traders, degens, and community members. The meme often draws on Robin Hood, "the Hood," outlaw, and trading-culture imagery, and has since appeared in tokens, NFT collections, trading tools, and social-media personas. ## How It Spread The term resurfaced in a new context after Robinhood Chain's public mainnet launched July 1, 2026 [6]. Within days, memecoins dominated the chain. CoinDesk reported on July 9 that an early CASHCAT trader turned $800 into over $1 million [7]. By July 13, the chain was doing billions in DEX activity with speculative memecoin trading as its defining use case [8]. CEO Vlad Tenev even embraced it, posting that although Robinhood Chain was built for RWAs, "it works great for memes too." On-chain evidence shows the Hooder name being used on Robinhood Chain by July 10, 2026 [10], with multiple HOODER-branded liquidity pools created by July 11 [11]. By late July, HooderScan emerged as an analytics platform whose "Top Hooders Leaderboard" ranks traders by 24-hour PNL and win rate [9]. By August, Hooder had spread into NFT collections (including a 5,000-piece Hooder collection and HOODERS outlaw-themed project), social media personas like @Callmehooder, and broader ecosystem branding. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is a Hooder? A Hooder is a Robinhood Chain-native trader or degen, particularly someone active in the chain's memecoin trenches. The term derives from older "Robinhooder" slang for Robinhood app users (2019-2020) and was revived when Robinhood Chain launched in July 2026. ### Where did the term Hooder come from? The term originated as "Robin Hooder" / "Robinhooder" for Robinhood app users around 2019-2020, with the earliest artifact being a September 2019 GitHub userscript called "Robinhooder." By August 2020, Reddit users were calling themselves "Hooders." The term was revived in July 2026 when Robinhood Chain launched and became a memecoin hub. ### Is Hooder related to HODL or hodler? Despite some confusion, Hooder does not derive from "hodler." The lineage is: Robinhood user → Robin Hooder → Robinhooder → Hooder → Robinhood Chain Hooder. However, projects like HOODERS now mix both linguistic branches with slogans like "GIVE TO THE HODLERS," which may explain the misconception. ### When did Hooder become crypto slang? The modern crypto usage emerged within 10 days of Robinhood Chain's July 1, 2026 mainnet launch. On-chain HOODER tokens appeared by July 10-11, 2026, and HooderScan (with its "Top Hooders Leaderboard") launched by late July, helping formalize the term as the chain's native trader identity. ### What is HooderScan? HooderScan is an analytics and trading platform specifically for Robinhood Chain that launched in July 2026. Its trader leaderboard literally calls ranked users "Top Hooders," defined as 24-hour rolling performance rankings based on on-chain PNL and win rate. The platform helped establish Hooder as an ecosystem noun. ## References 1. [https://gist.github.com/insanity54/13cde08047a9fd250f056fd96db5decd]() 2. [https://www.reddit.com/r/RobinHoodPennyStocks/comments/go5y52]() 3. [https://www.reddit.com/r/Daytrading/comments/i5xhjj]() 4. [https://warosu.org/biz/thread/20008688]() 5. [https://dcross.impress.co.jp/docs/column/column20200805/001810-2.html]() 6. [https://www.elliptic.co/newsroom/elliptic-supports-robinhood-chain/]() 7. [https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/07/09/cashcat-trader-turns-usd800-into-over-usd1-million-on-robinhood-s-brand-new-blockchain]() 8. [https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/07/13/robinhood-built-a-blockchain-for-tokenized-stocks-]() 9. [https://hooderscan.com/manual]() 10. [https://dexpaprika.com/robinhood/token/0x38f33947f2922a2dca75938e298954db18cb29c9]() 11. [https://dexpaprika.com/robinhood/pool/0xfee5af2c72d187329b205525ce5e7f21a826c4ce]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/hooder Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library