Robinhood is preparing to let customers use AI agents to research markets, create trading strategies and place orders on their behalf at any time, including while they are away from the app. The Nasdaq-listed trading platform is also rolling out crypto perpetual futures with leverage of up to 10 times on bitcoin and ether. Both products are aimed at active traders and are being introduced gradually to eligible customers in the United States, according to CoinDesk.
How Robinhood’s AI trading agents work
Robinhood announced the new agents at its HOOD Summit in Houston. The tool will be integrated into the company’s app, which serves more than 27 million funded accounts.
Unlike a conventional chatbot, which responds to questions, an AI agent can take action. In Robinhood’s case, customers will be able to select and approve an agent that researches markets, develops a strategy and executes trades according to settings chosen by the customer.
The company’s announcement describes controls for trade approvals. When approvals are enabled, the agent must receive the customer’s confirmation before placing an order. Customers can also disable those approvals, allowing the agent to submit trades without requesting confirmation for every transaction.
The service builds on a feature Robinhood introduced in May that allowed technically experienced customers to connect their own AI agents to their accounts. Robinhood said more than 150,000 customers have opened agentic trading accounts since then, and that those agents now use Robinhood’s tools nearly 30 million times per day.
A forthcoming feature called Loops will allow users to turn a strategy into a recurring instruction. For example, an agent could review market conditions each morning and trade when specified criteria are met, or continue operating overnight while the customer is asleep. Robinhood says Loops is coming soon.
Customers, not Robinhood, take the trading risk
The convenience of automated execution comes with a clear allocation of responsibility. Robinhood says customers assume all risk for trades carried out by AI agents, as well as for the use of their data by third-party large language model providers.
The company also says it does not control, supervise, monitor, recommend or audit the agents. That means the customer remains responsible for the instructions given to the system and for the consequences of trades made under those instructions.
Robinhood’s disclosures are particularly direct about Loops. Once activated, the feature may place, alter or cancel trades automatically without seeking approval for each transaction. It can do so while a customer is sleeping, away from a device or otherwise not watching the market. The agent will follow the rules configured by the customer, including during periods of market volatility.
Robinhood does not guarantee how Loops will perform under any particular market conditions and says automated trading carries the same risks as manual trading. Users can switch the feature off, but trades already made by a Loop will not be reversed automatically.
The other product announced alongside the AI tools is crypto perpetual futures. These contracts allow traders to take leveraged positions without a set expiry date. Robinhood is offering leverage of up to 10 times on bitcoin and ether through the rollout. The product, like the AI functionality, is directed at active traders and is not yet broadly available to every customer.
Wider concerns about autonomous trading
Robinhood’s warnings address the risks within an individual account, but regulators and researchers have also raised questions about what could happen if large numbers of AI agents trade simultaneously.
Sarah Breeden, deputy governor of the Bank of England, warned in June that autonomous agents could intensify volatility during periods of market stress and potentially contribute to a market meltdown. One concern is herding: if many agents interpret the same news in a similar way, they could buy or sell at the same time and magnify an otherwise modest market move.
Research from the Wharton School and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology found that AI trading agents in a simulated environment were able to collude and set prices for collective profit, despite having no explicit communication channel. The researchers said the agents could maintain above-market profits without communication, an agreement or an intention to cooperate.
Those findings concern AI trading generally rather than Robinhood’s specific agents. The technology is still new, and the risks described by regulators and researchers remain largely theoretical. Even so, the studies highlight why automated systems that can act independently raise questions beyond the performance of a single strategy.
Moneyiar market picture
Moneyiar data at 09:08 on October 1, 2026, showed the following digital-asset prices and moves:
- Monad (MON): $0.0324862044, up 19.8% over 24 hours and 35.06% over seven days.
- SOON (SOON): $0.4505989642, up 2% over 24 hours and 132.21% over seven days.
- ONEchain (ONE): $0.1375040968, up 0.86% over 24 hours and down 7.19% over seven days.
- Notcoin (NOT): $0.0004975542, up 0.33% over 24 hours and 6.69% over seven days.
These figures provide a snapshot of the market at the stated time and are not a measure of how Robinhood’s planned products will perform.
