Robinhood Brings Perps and AI Trading to US Customers
Roger that. Robinhood is expanding its crypto offerings in the US by launching leveraged perpetual futures contracts for eligible customers, along with AI trading agents.
The new products will be offered through Bitstamp, which Robinhood acquired in June 2025. The perpetual contracts will cover BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, DOGE, ADA, LINK, and HYPE, with leverage of up to 10x on bitcoin and ether, and 3x on the rest.
Roger that. The product extends a line Robinhood first opened in Europe, where it launched perpetual futures for EU customers in mid-2025 at 3x leverage. In the US it lands on ground Coinbase has held since July 2025, when Coinbase Financial Markets began offering CFTC-regulated bitcoin and ether perpetual-style contracts with up to 10x leverage and fees starting at 0.02%.
The other headline launch is Robinhood Agents, which lets customers create an AI agent, give it a dedicated agentic account and choose a model from several AI labs including OpenAI. Funds are limited to the agentic account, and a forthcoming feature called Loops will let agents run recurring strategies continuously, including overnight and while the app is closed.
On the equities side, Robinhood said it plans to extend its existing 24 Hour Market, which runs from Sunday evening to Friday evening, to allow trading in a selection of US stocks and ETFs through the weekend. It will also roll out earnings contracts, binary options listed through Cboe that pay up to $1 depending on whether a company beats estimates or hits a revenue target.