- Robinhood will allow eligible US crypto traders to connect third-party AI agents for autonomous trading.
- The feature aims to level the playing field for retail investors by executing strategies based on otherwise missed data.
- Over 70,000 agentic accounts have been created for equities and options since a beta launch in May.
- UK customers will be next to access the offering, though no specific rollout date has been set for the US.
Robinhood announced that eligible US-based customers will soon connect third-party AI agents to execute crypto trades autonomously, marking the company’s latest expansion into automated trading. The move follows a similar product rollout for equities and options traders in May.
“You can work with an agent to create a strategy with specific guardrails and not need to be constantly monitoring your account,” a Robinhood executive said during a Friday presentation. The company did not set a specific date for the US rollout but noted that UK customers would be next in line.
The push for autonomous crypto trading adds to Robinhood’s broader strategy, which has focused on real-world asset tokenization and its Ethereum layer 2 Robinhood Chain. Robinhood’s senior vice president of crypto, Johann Kerbrat, said the new blockchain processed 17 million transactions from nearly 350,000 wallet addresses in its first week.
Meanwhile, over 70,000 agentic accounts have been created by equities and options traders since late May. During the presentation, the executive stated that AI agents would help retail users base trades on data they might otherwise miss.
“This is another big step towards giving retail investors every advantage that institutions have enjoyed for decades,” the executive said. Robinhood offers these accounts through third-party AI companies including Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX’s Grok.
Robinhood is also enabling eligible users to have credit card purchases made by AI agents. This comes as industry executives like Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong have tipped AI agents to become dominant users of blockchain payments in coming years.
Notable integrations have emerged in recent months, including Amazon Web Services integrating Coinbase’s x402 payments protocol in May. In April, crypto wallet startup Oobit launched a VISA-supported virtual card for AI agents to make purchases in USDt. However, data shows that AI-agent transaction volume remains small, with only $2 million facilitated through the x402 protocol in June.
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