Robinhood plans to launch crypto perpetual futures for eligible U.S. customers in the coming months, covering BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, DOGE, ADA, LINK and HYPE.
Contracts will carry up to 10x leverage on bitcoin and ether and 3x on the other six assets, with a promotional fee of 0.01% per trade through year-end.
Weekend trading of select U.S. stocks and ETFs is planned, pending regulatory review, as an extension of the existing 24 Hour Market.
The brokerage also unveiled in-app Robinhood Agents that can research markets and execute trades within user-set limits.
Robinhood said Tuesday it will bring crypto perpetual futures to eligible U.S. customers inside its app in the coming months, pairing the rollout with plans for weekend equity trading and built-in AI agents.
In a newsroom statement from HOOD Summit 2026 in Houston, the company said users will be able to take long or short positions on bitcoin (BTC), ether (ETH), Solana, XRP, Dogecoin, ADA, LINK or HYPE with no expiration dates. Leverage will be capped at 10x on bitcoin and ether perpetuals and 3x on the other contracts. The products will be offered by Robinhood Derivatives through Bitstamp, and the firm said it will charge one basis point, or 0.01%, per trade through the end of the year. Traders will be able to set stop-loss and take-profit orders and track liquidation prices in real time.
CEO Vlad Tenev wrote on X that Robinhood is "bringing America its first true perps", with P&L settled every 15 minutes, calling it "a new chapter for U.S. derivatives." The official @RobinhoodApp account said perps "are now rolling out for US traders" and that the contracts never expire and trade around the clock. In a follow-up disclosure, the company cautioned that perps involve significant risk, including losses greater than the initial investment, and that Robinhood Derivatives accounts are not FDIC insured or SIPC protected.
Weekend trading of a curated list of U.S. stocks and ETFs is planned as an extension of Robinhood's 24 Hour Market, which currently runs from Sunday at 8 p.m. ET through Friday at 8 p.m. ET, according to the same company announcement. That expansion is pending regulatory review and is slated for early next year. Chief Brokerage Officer Steve Quirk said "Breaking news doesn't wait for an opening bell." Weekend sessions will be powered by Bruce ATS.
The brokerage also introduced Robinhood Agents, which live inside the app so customers can build an agent, fund a dedicated agentic account, choose a model from labs including OpenAI, and set approval and risk limits. Usage on OpenAI GPT-Luna will be free until year-end. Separate earnings contracts — binary options listed through Cboe on company-specific metrics such as whether a firm beats estimates — will begin rolling out to eligible customers in the coming weeks ahead of third-quarter earnings, with no contract fees through year-end subject to regulatory review.
