Robinhood unveils crypto perpetuals, 24/7 weekend stock trading, and AI trading agents

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   Wall St Engine@wallstenginePost on X · Sep 29

   Everything Robinhood announced at $HOOD Summit 2026: • 24/7 stock trading, including weekends • Robinhood Agents that can research and trade for you • Perpetual futures for U.S. customers • Extended options trading hours • Up to 4x intraday margin • OCO orders • Third-party AI agents inside Robinhood Legend via MCP • Robinhood Social rolling out broadly • Live earnings experience with calls + trading in one place • Dual-display and multi-display support • Helios for faster charts and app performance

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   UnchainedArticle · Sep 30

   Robinhood Readies 10x Crypto Perps for US Traders and Unveils AI Trading Agents in Its App Robinhood plans to let eligible U.S. customers trade crypto perpetual futures in its app with up to 10x leverage , part of a batch of trading products the company unveiled on Tuesday night at its HOOD Summit in Houston. “Robinhood is bringing America its first true perps,” CEO Vlad Tenev wrote on X , adding that profit and loss would settle every 15 minutes. The perps will be offered by Robinhood Derivatives through Bitstamp over the next few months. Traders will be able to go long or short, with no expiry date, on BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, DOGE, ADA, LINK and HYPE. Bitcoin and ether perps carry up to 10x leverage, and the other six are capped at 3x. Through year-end, Robinhood said it will charge one basis point (0.01%) on each trade. The plan follows a late-May move by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) that cleared the way for Kalshi to list a bitcoin perpetual and for Coinbase to route U.S. clients to perps listed by its Bermuda affiliate. Get Unchained’s crypto news in your inbox with the free Unchained Daily newsletter . AI Agents Move Into the App Robinhood Agents , which Robinhood said is coming soon, will let customers build an AI agent inside the app with no technical setup. Users will open a dedicated agentic account, pick a model from AI labs including OpenAI, and let the agent research markets, draft strategies and place trades. The agent will only be able to use money in its own account, and manual approval of each trade will be on by default, though customers can turn it off. A coming feature called Loops will turn a strategy into standing instructions the agent runs around the clock. Agent Apps will sell outside data from 11 providers, including Nasdaq and Token Terminal. Robinhood first let customers connect outside AI agents in May and extended agentic accounts to crypto in July. More than 150,000 customers have since opened agentic trading accounts, and agents now tap Robinhood’s tools almost 30 million times a day, the company said. “Whether you’re an expert or are just getting started with AI, you’re at a disadvantage if you’re not using Robinhood,” said Abhishek Fatehpuria , Robinhood’s vice president of product management. Stocks on Weekends Robinhood also plans 24/7 trading for a curated list of U.S. stocks and ETFs through the alternative trading system Bruce ATS. The company said the feature is coming early next year, pending regulatory review. That extends Robinhood’s 24 Hour Market, which launched in 2023 and runs from Sunday at 8 p.m. ET to Friday at 8 p.m. ET. It is also adding earnings contracts from Cboe to its prediction markets hub, binary options on company metrics such as earnings beats. “We’re making Robinhood the best place in the world for active traders by delivering tools once reserved for hedge funds, big banks, and quant firms,” Tenev said. Related Listen: The Chopping Block: threadguy on Crypto’s Social Trading War, Trader Celebrities & AI Agents The post Robinhood Readies 10x Crypto Perps for US Traders and Unveils AI Trading Agents in Its App appeared first on Unchained .

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   CryptoSavingExpert ®@CryptoSavingExpPost on X · Sep 30

   Robinhood is launching AI agents that can research markets 24/7, build trading strategies and execute trades on users’ behalf within limits they set. More than 150,000 customers have already opened agentic trading accounts, with Robinhood saying its agents are being used nearly 30 million times per day. Its new “Loops” feature allows agents to monitor markets around the clock and automatically execute strategies when specific conditions are met. Each agent operates through a dedicated trading account, with manual trade approval enabled by default. Robinhood is also adding premium market data from Nasdaq, Unusual Whales and SpotGamma, alongside access to OpenAI’s GPT-Luna through the end of the year. AI-powered trading is moving from a concept into a product people can actually use.

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   Frank Chaparro 🇰🇷@fintechfrankPost on X · Sep 29

   BIG news out of Robinhood’s HOOD Summit today. The brokerage is pushing hard toward a world where markets are always on and increasingly traded by AI: • 24/7 stock trading, including weekends, starting with select stocks and ETFs, pending regulatory review • Corporate earnings prediction markets through Cboe, letting users trade outcomes like revenue and EPS beats • Perpetual futures for eligible U.S. customers • AI trading agents that can research markets, build strategies and eventually execute trades while users are offline • “Loops” will let those agents run strategies repeatedly without the user being logged in • Robinhood’s social trading platform is expanding to eligible U.S. customers Robinhood’s pitch is essentially to put tools once associated with hedge funds and professional trading desks directly into the hands of retail investors. The bigger theme: markets are becoming 24/7, multi-asset and increasingly agentic.

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   Coin Bureau@coinbureauPost on X · Sep 30

   🚨HUGE: Robinhood is bringing 10x leveraged crypto trading to US retail, a product that has mostly lived on offshore exchanges. Perpetual futures are one of crypto's most traded products, but US rules have long limited access for retail traders. Robinhood will offer them to eligible US users through Bitstamp, with up to 10x leverage on Bitcoin and ether and 3x on other coins. It says it chose lower leverage on smaller tokens "to start off a little safer."

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   BSCN@BSCNewsPost on X · Sep 30

   Robinhood is Bringing Crypto Perps And Weekend Trading to US Users Robinhood (@RobinhoodApp) plans to launch perpetual futures trading for eligible US users in the coming months. The platform will initially support Bitcoin, Ether, Solana, ripple:native, Dogecoin, cardano:native, ethereum:0x514910771af9ca656af840dff83e8264ecf986ca and HYPE. Bitcoin and Ether perps could offer up to 10x leverage, while other contracts will offer 3x. The company also plans 24/7 trading for selected US stocks and ETFs, pending regulatory review. Robinhood said the weekend trading service will use Bruce ATS for market execution.

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   Wall St Engine@wallstenginePost on X · Sep 29

   $HOOD just unveiled Robinhood Agents, built directly into the app. You can use one to research the market, build a strategy, and place trades within limits you set. Each agent only gets access to a dedicated agentic trading account, and manual trade approval is on by default. Robinhood says 150,000+ customers have already opened agentic trading accounts, with agents now using its tools nearly 30 million times a day. Coming next is “Loops,” which can keep checking the market and run a strategy automatically when certain conditions are met. Robinhood is also adding Agent Apps, so users can plug in premium data and tools from Nasdaq, Unusual Whales, SpotGamma, Quiver Quantitative, Token Terminal and others. You can also use OpenAI’s GPT-Luna for free through the end of the year.

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   kook@KookCapitalLLCPost on X · Sep 30

   robinhood brought america its first true perps and cut lighter out of the us tape vlad on stage in houston americas first true perps no expiry pnl settled every 15 minutes routed through bitstamp not through the wallet rail that lit holders priced in eight contracts btc and eth at 10x sol xrp doge ada link and hype at 3x 0.01 percent fees through year end lighter was the onchain wallet path july robinhood chain + usdg margin into lighter about 7.29b cumulative perp volume through that channel roughly 17 percent of lighters daily flow lit was the option on us retail arriving onchain then bitstamp got the licensed us perps lit dumped over 15 percent in minutes 26 percent on the week in some prints wallet lighter integration still listed for eligible jurisdictions nobody confirmed a kill but the us retail prize just went to the exchange robinhood already bought for 200m cftc opened the door may 29 with kalshi btcperp kalshi already had a domestic perp four months before vlad called it first three models now kalshi domestic coinbase foreign futures via deribit robinhood derivatives through bitstamp lighter still burns fees into buybacks 17.5m tokens bought back by early september the us tape just got reassigned anyway pick carefully

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