Robinhood to let AI agents trade crypto for U.S. users
Eligible U.S. customers will be able to connect third-party AI agents to execute crypto trades; no U.S. rollout date was given and U.K. users are expected next.
Robinhood announced that eligible U.S. customers will soon be able to connect third-party AI agents to execute cryptocurrency trades on their behalf. The company did not provide a U.S. rollout date and indicated U.K. customers will be next to receive access.
The feature expands an AI agent product Robinhood began beta testing for equities and options in late May. Agents will run user-defined trading strategies, follow safety limits set by customers and monitor market signals so trades can be executed without constant oversight. “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 presentation.
Robinhood reported more than 70,000 agentic accounts created since the late-May beta for equities and options. Equities users can already ask agents to buy crypto-related stocks such as mining companies. The company also plans to allow eligible customers to have AI agents make credit card purchases on their behalf.
The product will integrate third-party AI platforms, with the company naming partners including Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX’s Grok. Robinhood said the integration is intended to let agents act across trading and payment tasks by connecting to external AI services.
Other companies are building agent-driven payment capabilities on blockchain rails. In May, Amazon Web Services added support for Coinbase’s x402 payments protocol to its Bedrock AgentCore product, enabling agents to transact in the USDC stablecoin. A crypto wallet startup introduced a Visa-backed virtual card that allows agents to make online purchases in USDT. Analytics firm Artemis reported roughly $2 million in transaction volume processed through the x402 protocol in June.
Robinhood’s broader blockchain work includes an Ethereum layer-2 network called Robinhood Chain, which launched earlier this month. Johann Kerbrat, senior vice president and general manager of crypto at Robinhood, reported the new chain processed about 17 million transactions from nearly 350,000 wallet addresses in its first week.
The announcement leaves unresolved regulatory, security and operational questions, including how guardrails will be enforced, how agents will access funds and what disclosures users must receive. For now, Robinhood is expanding tools that allow third-party AI systems to perform trading and payment actions for retail customers.
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