Robinhood announced plans to offer crypto perpetual futures with up to 10x leverage to qualified U.S. customers, while also preparing weekend 24/7 trading for select U.S. stocks and ETFs.
- Robinhood plans to launch Bitcoin and Ethereum perpetual futures in the U.S. with leverage of up to 10x.
- The first eight supported crypto assets are BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, DOGE, ADA, LINK, and HYPE.
- Perpetual contract trading will be charged at 0.01% per trade until the end of this year, provided by Robinhood Derivatives through the Bitstamp infrastructure.
- Weekend stock trading is expected to begin next year, initially covering select stocks and ETFs, subject to regulatory review.
- Robinhood Agents allow users to create AI agents within the app for market research and automated trading.
In its HOOD Summit announcement on September 29, Robinhood stated that perpetual contracts will be launched over the coming months, covering BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, DOGE, ADA, LINK, and HYPE. Bitcoin and Ethereum contracts will offer up to 10x leverage, while the other six assets will have a maximum leverage of 3x.
These contracts will have no expiration date. Robinhood said traders will be able to set stop-loss and take-profit orders, monitor liquidation prices in real time, and receive alerts when their positions are at risk. CEO Vlad Tenev called the product “America’s first true perpetual contract” on X, adding that profits and losses will be settled every 15 minutes.
Robinhood Crypto perpetual contracts will cover eight assets.
Perpetual futures allow traders to maintain derivative positions indefinitely, without a fixed expiration date, as long as margin requirements are met. The U.S. offering under Robinhood’s plan will enable qualified users to go long or short on the above eight crypto assets directly within the app.
Robinhood plans to charge a fee of 0.01% per trade by the end of 2026. The company has not provided a specific launch date, only stating that the fee will be rolled out gradually over the coming months. The maximum leverage for BTC and ETH is 10x; for SOL, XRP, DOGE, ADA, LINK, and HYPE, it is limited to 3x.
Earlier this year, U.S. regulators paved a clearer path for genuine crypto perpetual contracts. On May 29, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) approved KalshiEX’s BTCPERP contract as a futures contract referencing the spot price of Bitcoin. On the same day, the agency issued a policy statement indicating that perpetual contracts linked to asset classes outside the scope of the approval order should generally be reviewed on a case-by-case basis under CFTC Regulation 40.3.
CFTC staff also separately confirmed on May 29 that certain crypto perpetual contracts offered through Coinbase Financial Markets may be considered foreign futures. Robinhood did not directly link its planned contracts to this specific staff interpretation. The company stated that futures products, including perpetual futures, will be offered by Robinhood Derivatives—a CFTC-registered futures commission merchant and member of the National Futures Association (NFA).
Bitstamp will support Robinhood Derivatives.
Robinhood stated that this U.S. perpetual futures product will be offered through Bitstamp by Robinhood Derivatives. The broker completed its $200 million acquisition of Bitstamp in June 2025, integrating the established cryptocurrency exchange into its group.
The partnership with Bitstamp continues Robinhood’s prior use of this exchange in markets outside the U.S. Robinhood’s crypto perpetual products launched in Europe route trades through Bitstamp’s perpetual futures exchange, with an initial leverage of up to 3x.
By July 2026, Robinhood had expanded its international derivatives product line to include perpetual contracts linked to assets such as gold, silver, crude oil, ETFs, and currency pairs. Previous reporting by crypto.news indicated that these European traditional finance perpetual contracts offer leverage of up to 10x.
Compared to its earlier crypto products launched in Europe, Robinhood’s U.S. offering increases the leverage limits for BTC and ETH. Tenev stated on X that the new contracts will have no expiration date and will settle profits and losses every 15 minutes. The available control features listed in Robinhood’s announcement include liquidation price tracking, alerts, and user-defined stop-loss and take-profit orders.
In addition to announcing a fee of 0.01% by the end of the year, the company has not released a complete fee schedule. The announcement on September 29 also did not specify the exact launch date for the first contracts, so as of September 30, the product remains in the planned launch phase.
Weekend stock trading is scheduled to launch in early 2027.
In addition to its crypto derivatives offering, Robinhood is also preparing 24/7 trading for select U.S. stocks and ETFs. The company said weekend trading is expected to launch in early next year, pending regulatory review.
This service will expand Robinhood’s existing “24 Hour Market,” which currently covers hundreds of stocks and ETFs and is open from 8:00 PM Eastern Time Sunday through 8:00 PM Eastern Time Friday. Weekend trading will initially begin with a curated list of securities and will be available across Robinhood’s different account types.
Bruce ATS will provide a trading venue for weekend trading hours. Robinhood described Bruce as an institutional-grade alternative trading system; Chief Brokerage Officer Steve Quirk, commenting on the weekend trading plan, said, “Breaking news doesn’t wait for the opening bell.”
Robinhood will also adjust other trading hours this fall. Starting in October, options trading hours for certain securities will be extended to 7:30 AM to 4:15 PM Eastern Time. Beginning next month, eligible margin customers can choose to increase their day-trading buying power from 2x to as high as 4x.
Robinhood Agents will bring automated trading into the app.
The summit announcement also includes Robinhood Agents, a suite of in-app tools that allow qualified users to create AI agents for market research, strategy building, and automated trading. Robinhood stated that since launching its third-party agent service in May, over 150,000 customers have opened agent trading accounts, with these agents now using Robinhood tools nearly 30 million times per day.
Robinhood first opened its platform to external AI agents in May via dedicated trading accounts and the Model Context Protocol tool. At the time, crypto.news reported that this setup separated agents from users’ primary portfolios while allowing automated actions to be executed within user-defined controls.
Robinhood Agents moved this setup into the app, allowing users to select supported models, set up dedicated agent accounts, and define trading instructions and restrictions. The system defaults to manual trade approval during setup, and agents can only access funds in the dedicated account.
A feature called Loops will allow users to create looping instructions for their agents to monitor the market and execute trades when preset conditions are met. According to Robinhood’s disclosure documents, customers remain responsible for the automated rules they configure and for monitoring performance, as automated trading carries the same risk of loss as manual trading.