Robinhood Expands Active Trading With AI Accounts, Crypto Futures
The company launched an equities-only Agentic Trading beta in May and offers crypto perpetual futures to eligible European customers.
Robinhood is expanding its active-trading lineup with AI-controlled equity accounts and crypto derivatives as the company broadens beyond its core stock-trading business.
The company’s HOOD Summit ’26 is taking place in Houston on Sept. 29-30. The keynote began Sept. 29 at 6:30 p.m. ET (22:30 UTC), with new trading tools featured on the agenda.
Robinhood launched Agentic Trading in beta May 27. The product lets customers connect third-party artificial-intelligence agents to a dedicated Robinhood account funded only with deposited money.
At launch, the accounts supported equities. Agents can place trades, generate portfolio analysis and run strategies such as mean-reversion trading. Robinhood plans to add options, crypto, event contracts and futures.
Customers receive push notifications when an agent trades and can review a real-time activity feed and profit-and-loss information in Robinhood’s apps. The agents may misinterpret instructions, act on incomplete or outdated information, or make other errors, leaving customers responsible for monitoring their positions and activity.
“Our mission has always been to democratize finance for all, and now, that mission extends to AI agents,” Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev said. “The future of agentic finance has arrived at Robinhood.”
Robinhood also offers crypto perpetual futures to eligible European customers. The product, announced in June 2025, provides leverage of up to three times and routes orders through Bitstamp’s perpetual-futures exchange.
Perpetual futures allow traders to keep bullish or bearish positions open without a fixed settlement date. Because leverage increases exposure, modest market moves can produce outsized gains or losses and trigger liquidation.
Robinhood reported $40 billion in crypto notional trading volume in the second quarter of 2026. The Robinhood app accounted for $18 billion, while Bitstamp handled $22 billion.
The company’s current product expansion therefore combines an equities-only AI trading beta with crypto derivatives available in Europe, alongside its broader push to serve more active traders.
