TLDR
- Robinhood plans to let eligible U.S. customers authorize AI agents to execute crypto trades on their behalf
- Over 70,000 agentic accounts already created by equities and options traders since the May beta launch
- Robinhood Chain processed 17 million transactions from 350,000 wallet addresses in its first week
- Robinhood Chain’s TVL climbed above $115 million, with daily Uniswap volume hitting $500 million
- AI agent blockchain payments remain small — x402 protocol processed just $2 million in volume in June
Robinhood is expanding its AI agent program to crypto, allowing eligible U.S. customers to connect third-party AI agents to manage cryptocurrency trades within user-defined rules.
Crypto is coming to agentic trading.
Eligible US customers will soon be able to connect their AI agent to a dedicated Robinhood account to trade crypto on their behalf, with the same real-time P&L tracking and push notifications they already know from agentic trading. More soon.… pic.twitter.com/b3p1nZeZ8Y
— Robinhood (@RobinhoodApp) July 10, 2026
The company made the announcement during a Friday presentation but gave no specific launch date. UK customers are next in line after the U.S. rollout.
Robinhood already launched a beta version of AI agentic accounts for equities and options traders in late May. More than 70,000 agentic accounts have since been created, pointing to early appetite for the product.
The feature works with AI models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX’s Grok. Robinhood is also extending the same technology to let eligible customers authorize AI agents to make credit card purchases on their behalf.
The idea behind the feature is straightforward: users set the guardrails, the agent handles the execution. “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.
Robinhood framed the tool as a way to close the gap between retail and institutional investors — letting everyday traders act on data they might otherwise miss.
Robinhood Chain Picks Up Steam
The AI expansion comes alongside real momentum on Robinhood’s blockchain infrastructure. Robinhood Chain, the company’s Ethereum layer-2 network built on Arbitrum, launched on July 1.
In its first week, the network processed 17 million transactions from nearly 350,000 wallet addresses, according to Robinhood’s SVP of crypto Johann Kerbrat.
DeFiLlama data shows Robinhood Chain’s total value locked crossed $115 million after a 23% jump in 24 hours. Daily Uniswap volume on the chain hit around $500 million on July 8, placing it behind only Ethereum mainnet.
Token Terminal data shows the network attracted more than $70 million in bridged Ether during its first week.
AI Crypto Payments Still Finding Their Footing
Outside Robinhood, AI-driven blockchain payments are starting to appear. In May, Amazon Web Services integrated Coinbase’s x402 protocol into Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, enabling AI agents to settle payments in USDC.
In April, crypto wallet startup Oobit launched a Visa-backed virtual card allowing AI agents to make business purchases using USDT.
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong and Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire have both predicted AI agents will become major users of blockchain payment systems in the coming years.
That said, actual volumes are still small. Artemis data shows the x402 protocol handled just $2 million in transaction volume in June, a reminder that despite a wave of product launches, real-world adoption is still early.
Robinhood Chain’s cumulative trading volume crossed $250 million in its first week of operation.
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