Robinhood opens crypto trading to AI agents for eligible US users
AI & Agents ·
Robinhood is letting eligible US users connect AI agents to dedicated trading accounts, complete with live profit-and-loss tracking and alerts, according to cointelegraph.com.
The rollout gives users a separate account structure specifically for agent-driven trades, rather than mixing automated activity into a standard portfolio. Live P&L tracking lets users monitor performance in real time, while alerts flag account activity as agents execute trades on a user's behalf. The feature is framed as agentic trading, a category where software agents — not humans clicking buy or sell — carry out transactions within a defined account.
The move extends a broader pattern of expansion at Robinhood, which has moved well past its original commission-free stock trading model into crypto, prediction markets, AI tools, and international wealth management. Crypto trading has been part of the platform since 2018, initially as a custodied product that let users buy and hold but not withdraw to external wallets — a limitation later addressed with the 2022 launch of Robinhood Wallet, a non-custodial option giving users control of private keys. Robinhood Connect and an expanding asset list on Robinhood Legend, its advanced trading interface, have since broadened the platform's crypto footprint, with tokens including Solana, Zcash, Pyth Network, MegaETH, and BIO added by mid-2026.
The agentic trading launch also sits alongside other recent moves signaling Robinhood's push into AI and cross-border growth: the company put $75 million into OpenAI through a new public fund, giving retail traders exposure to a private AI startup without accreditation requirements, and closed a C$250 million acquisition of WonderFi that brought Bitbuy, Coinsquare, and 300,000 funded customers into its Canadian operations. Separately, commentary from Robinhood and Bitstamp has described banks shifting from asking "what" crypto is to figuring out "how" to build onchain infrastructure, a backdrop against which Robinhood's own agentic push is arriving.
Crypto remains a volatile but material revenue line for Robinhood, a company whose fortunes have tracked retail trading sentiment and crypto cycles since its 2021 Nasdaq listing, when shares swung more than 50% within two days of trading. The company has also cut roughly 10% of its staff during a prior downturn in crypto activity, underscoring how closely tied its business remains to market conditions.
What remains unclear is the scope of eligibility for the new agentic feature, the specific guardrails users can set on agent behavior, and how the dedicated accounts will be treated for tax, custody, or regulatory purposes. Robinhood has not detailed which AI models or third-party agents can be connected, nor timelines for wider availability beyond the initial eligible US user group.