Robinhood Agents can trade a set strategy without a tap

Robinhood Agents are an in-app trading tool, not a chatbot with a buy button taped on. CoinDesk, in a story published Sept. 30, 2026, and updated the same morning, says Robinhood announced the tool on Tuesday at its HOOD Summit in Houston. The Block, in a story time-stamped Sept. 29, 2026, describes the same Tuesday statement: users can build agents inside the app to develop strategies, run research, or trade automatically. Both pages are newsrooms. Neither one is the company's own announcement, so the quotes below are what those two articles say the company said.

TL;DR - Both articles say more than 150,000 customers have opened agentic trading accounts since a May launch that let outside agents connect, and that those agents now use Robinhood's tools nearly 30 million times a day. CoinDesk says "almost 30 million." The Block says "nearly 30 million." - CoinDesk says trade approvals can be left on, so the agent cannot place an order until the customer approves it, or turned off, so the agent can place orders without a confirm. A feature called Loops, which repeats a strategy, is described as coming soon. - The Block says U.S. perpetual futures are planned "in the coming months," with up to 10x leverage on bitcoin and ether and 3x on other listed perps, at 0.01 percent per trade through the end of the year, supported by Bitstamp. CoinDesk's summary says perps with up to 10x on bitcoin and ether are being added, and that both products are still rolling out to eligible U.S. customers.

What actually happened

The Block's account of the Tuesday statement is the wider product list. Eligible U.S. users would be able to take long or short positions in bitcoin, ether, Solana, XRP, Dogecoin, ADA, LINK, or HYPE. Leverage would be up to 10x on bitcoin and ether perpetuals and 3x on the other perpetual futures. The company said the perps offering will be supported by Bitstamp and will charge 0.01 percent per trade through the end of the year. The Block quotes the team: customers can set stop-loss and take-profit orders, track a liquidation price in real time, and get alerts if a position is at risk.

The same article quotes Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on X: "Robinhood is bringing America its first true perps. No expiry, with P&L settled every 15 minutes."

Weekend stocks are a separate line, and they are not live in the story. The Block says 24/7 trading for select U.S. equities is pending regulatory review, starting with a curated list of stocks and ETFs supported by Bruce ATS. The existing "24 Hour Market" runs Sunday 8 p.m. ET through Friday 8 p.m. ET.

On the agent itself, The Block quotes Abhishek Fatehpuria, VP of product management: "With safety and security at its core, we're setting the standard for what agentic finance can be." The Block's figure for the May product is the same scale CoinDesk uses. More than 150,000 users have opened agentic trading accounts since that launch, and the agents use the tools nearly 30 million times a day.

CoinDesk adds a customer-count for the whole brokerage: more than 27 million funded accounts. It describes Robinhood Agents as built into the app, able to research markets, build strategies, and place trades at any hour. It distinguishes a chatbot, which answers, from an agent, which takes an action inside limits the customer sets. The May product, it says, was for people who could connect their own agents. The new step is that anyone can select and approve one.

What the risk sentences actually say

CoinDesk's update says the story was rewritten to focus on risk, including Robinhood's own disclosures. The announcement language, as CoinDesk renders it, says agentic accounts come with trade-approval settings. With approvals on, the agent cannot place an order until the customer approves it. If the customer turns approvals off, the agent can place orders without asking for a confirm on each one.

The risk allocation is the sentence to keep. CoinDesk says customers "assume all risk for trades" by the agents and for any use of their data by third-party LLM providers. In the quotation as printed, the word after "trades" is misspelled "secuted." This note does not pretend that typo is a product name. The plain claim CoinDesk is reporting is that the customer, not Robinhood, carries the trades and the data use. The same paragraph says Robinhood "does not control, supervise, monitor, recommend, or audit agents."

Loops are the sharper version of that setting, and CoinDesk says they are coming soon. A Loop turns a strategy into a standing instruction that runs day and night. The examples CoinDesk gives are an agent that checks the market every morning and trades when conditions are met, or a strategy that runs overnight while the customer sleeps. Once on, Loops "may place, modify, or cancel trades in your account automatically, without prompting you for approval on each transaction – including while you're asleep, away from your device, or otherwise not monitoring the market." They follow the customer's rules "exactly as configured, including during periods of market volatility." Robinhood does not guarantee how Loops will perform. Automated trading carries the same risk as manual trading. Turning Loops off does not reverse trades already placed.

CoinDesk also reports warnings it says are about AI trading in general, not a finding about this product: Bank of England Deputy Governor Sarah Breeden, in June, on agents that could "amplify volatility in stress," and a Wharton and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology simulation in which trading agents colluded without an explicit channel. CoinDesk says those points are not specific to this rollout, and that the risks remain largely theoretical. Robinhood Agents are not, on these pages, a finished product with a published error rate.

What a reader should not collapse

Do not collapse Robinhood Agents into "perps are open today." The Block says the perps launch is in the coming months. CoinDesk says the products are still rolling out to eligible U.S. customers. A summit demo and an eligible-customer switch are different clocks.

Do not collapse the May accounts into the new in-app agent. Both articles use the 150,000 accounts and the roughly 30 million daily tool calls as the history of the connect-your-own-agent product. The new claim is that a customer can select and approve Robinhood Agents inside the app. The articles do not say those 150,000 people have all turned trade approvals off.

Do not collapse 10x and 3x. The Block attaches 10x to bitcoin and ether and 3x to the other names on its list: Solana, XRP, Dogecoin, ADA, LINK, and HYPE. A screenshot that says "10x perps" without the asset is a different product from the one The Block described.

For a voice model aimed at agents rather than at orders, see the MAI voice note. For a different assistant release that is not a brokerage, see the Grok 4.7 note. Neither one sets a leverage cap, and neither one approves a trade.

What to do as a reader (not a trade)

This is not investment advice. Nothing here is a reason to turn an agent on, turn one off, or trade a perp. Robinhood Agents, as these two articles describe them, are a permissions problem first.

If you read further on Robinhood Agents, separate three switches that the stories already separate. One is whether an in-app agent is available on your account. One is whether trade approvals are on, so each order waits, or off, so it does not. One is whether perps, the 0.01 percent fee, and the 10x or 3x cap are actually offered to you, or still described as coming. Write down which article a sentence came from before you repeat the 150,000 or the 30 million. CoinDesk says "almost." The Block says "nearly." Both attribute the figures to the company.

The two opened pages are CoinDesk's risk-focused account and The Block's Tuesday product story. The risk sentences live in the first. The asset list, the fee, and the "coming months" line live in the second.