Robinhood has introduced plans to let eligible U.S. customers authorize AI agents to execute cryptocurrency trades on their behalf, extending automated investing beyond stocks and options. The upcoming feature will allow eligible U.S.-based crypto users to connect third-party AI agents capable of managing trades within user-defined limits. A Robinhood executive said users will be able to build trading strategies with predefined guardrails instead of watching their accounts continuously.
Automated Investing
According to the company, the feature is designed to let customers automate decisions while keeping control over the rules that AI agents must follow. The crypto rollout follows Robinhood’s beta launch of AI-powered agentic accounts for equities and options traders in late May, with over 70,000 agentic accounts already created. The service works with AI models from third-party providers, including Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX’s Grok.
Blockchain Infrastructure
The automation announcement comes as Robinhood continues expanding its blockchain infrastructure, centered on tokenized real-world assets and Robinhood Chain, its Ethereum layer-2 network built on Arbitrum. Johann Kerbrat, Robinhood’s senior vice president and general manager of crypto, said the network processed 17 million transactions from nearly 350,000 wallet addresses during its first week after launching on July 1. DeFiLlama data shows Robinhood Chain’s total value locked climbed above $115 million after increasing 23% in 24 hours, with cumulative addresses approaching 200,000.
Based on reporting from crypto.news.
