Robinhood to let eligible US users connect AI agents for crypto trading

Robinhood is expanding its Agentic Trading product to cryptocurrency for eligible U.S. users, extending a service it first launched in beta for equities on May 27. The feature lets customers connect AI agents to separately funded accounts dedicated to automated trading, with the software limited to those funds and able to be disconnected at any time. Robinhood said the crypto version will use the same real-time profit-and-loss tracking and push notifications already available in the equities product, with agent connections handled through its Model Context Protocol servers. More than 70,000 agentic accounts have been opened in the first few weeks, according to a Robinhood executive, underscoring early demand. The move comes as rivals including Coinbase roll out similar agent-based products and as lawmakers scrutinize whether AI-driven trading could amplify market volatility and raise questions about liability for broker-dealers and developers.