How your money works

Cash and positions, why cash lives on Robinhood, and why you never hold a gas token.

Vision keeps one idea at its centre: you have an amount of money, and you have things you've bought with it. Everything underneath — which chain something sits on, which token pays the network fee — is Vision's problem rather than yours. Cash and positions Your balance splits in two. Cash is what you can spend right now. Positions are the tokens you're holding. The figure at the top of your wallet is both together, across every chain, as one number — you never add up chains yourself.

Vision's cash sits as USDG on the Robinhood chain, the hub the rest of the app spends from. You don't have to move it there or think about it — it's simply what "cash" means when you ask Vision to buy something. Robinhood and tokenized equities The Robinhood chain is where cash lives and where tokenized equities trade, and it's a large part of what separates Vision from a plain DEX front-end. Vision treats it like any other chain: ask about a token there and you get the same price, chart and sentiment; ask to buy one and it goes through the same preview and the same confirm.

Robinhood tokens use 0x… addresses exactly like Ethereum ones, so the address alone cannot tell them apart. If you're pasting one, say which chain you mean. You never hold a gas token Every chain normally expects you to keep a little of its native coin to pay network fees — ETH on Ethereum, SOL on Solana, and so on. Vision sponsors that for trades from your Vision Wallet, which is why the network fee on a preview reads free.

It's also why you can arrive holding nothing but cash and immediately buy something on a chain you have never touched. What this means in practice Ask for something and Vision spends your cash, unless you name a token to pay with. You never pick a chain to fund, a bridge to cross, or a gas token to buy. One balance and one number, wherever the money physically sits.