▸ 01 · THE FIND
Here's a thing nobody told you. Open Robinhood, hit F12, watch the network tab. Your news, your notifications, your referrals, your watchlists — every one routes through api.robinhood.com/midlands/.
The Midlands is the English region that contains Nottingham and Sherwood Forest. The homeland of Robin Hood. You've been inside it this whole time.
Public source, sitting on GitHub since ~2019 — robin_stocks/urls.py:
73: api.robinhood.com/midlands/news/{symbol}/
146: api.robinhood.com/midlands/notifications/notification_tracker/
152: api.robinhood.com/midlands/referral/
189: api.robinhood.com/midlands/movers/sp500/
92: phoenix.robinhood.com/accounts/unified
108: minerva.robinhood.com/history/transactions/
111: bonfire.robinhood.com/paymenthub/unified_transfers/
180: nummus.robinhood.com/currency_pairs/ ← Latin for "coin". ALL crypto runs here.
▸ 02 · LIVE PROBES — real calls to the real endpoints
Their servers refuse browser cross-origin calls, so RUN routes through this site's own tiny read-only relay — then hands you the raw curl so you can watch it answer from your own terminal. Trust nothing. Run it yourself. (The console above does the same thing — type probe midlands.)
▸ 03 · THE MAP — the API tree, plotted on the homeland
- midlands/
news · ratings · notifications · referrals · lists · movers — the region that contains Sherwood. The namespace IS the homeland. - nummus
Latin: "coin." The entire crypto engine. Named in a dead language so you wouldn't notice. - phoenix
unified accounts. The bird that burns and returns. - minerva
transaction history. Your whole record, filed with the goddess of wisdom. - bonfire
payments. Every camp in a forest needs a fire.
▸ 04 · PULL THE THREAD
midlands — the homeland
They scrubbed Robin Hood from the paperwork. But open the network tab and every notification you've ever received routed through his homeland. In public. Since at least 2019.
nummus — the coin
The crypto engine is a separate host entirely: nummus.robinhood.com. Nummus is Latin for "coin." Every crypto order ever placed settles through a server named coin in a dead language.
phoenix — the return
Your unified account state lives at phoenix. The thing that burns down and comes back. Name a more fitting service for the company that survived January 2021.
minerva — the record
Your entire transaction history is kept at minerva — the Roman goddess of wisdom. Everything you ever did, filed with a goddess.
bonfire — the camp is lit
midlands. nummus. phoenix. minerva. bonfire.
Legal scrubbed the legend from the filings. The engineers wrote him into the endpoints.
The legend is in the endpoints.
…they told the robots where not to look. one command left: sherwood
▸ 05 · THE TICKER
the most mid ticker on the chain. on purpose. mid is the homeland.
est. 1377
1377 — the year Robin Hood first appears in a written document (Piers Plowman).
The legend entered the documents in 1377. It entered the endpoints in 2019.
It enters the chain now.
▸ 06 · TRUST NOTHING — 30-SECOND HOMEWORK
# the homeland answers (no login, no key):
curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n" https://api.robinhood.com/midlands/news/AAPL/ # → 200
# the coin engine answers:
curl -s https://nummus.robinhood.com/currency_pairs/ | head -c 200
# the source, public since ~2019:
curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jmfernandes/robin_stocks/master/robin_stocks/robinhood/urls.py \
| grep -n "midlands\|nummus\|phoenix\|minerva\|bonfire"
zero-terminal version: robinhood.com → F12 → Network tab → filter: midlands.