Robinhood plans 10x crypto perps for U.S. traders

Robinhood has announced plans to launch crypto perpetual futures for eligible U.S. customers with leverage of up to 10x, while preparing 24/7 weekend trading for selected U.S. stocks and ETFs.

Robinhood said in its Sept. 29 HOOD Summit release that the perpetual contracts will arrive in the coming months and cover BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, DOGE, ADA, LINK and HYPE. Bitcoin and Ether contracts will offer leverage of up to 10x, while the other six assets will be capped at 3x.

The contracts will have no expiration date. Robinhood said traders will be able to place stop-loss and take-profit orders, monitor liquidation prices in real time and receive alerts when positions are at risk. CEO Vlad Tenev described the product on X as “America’s first true perps,” adding that profit and loss will be settled every 15 minutes.

Robinhood crypto perps will cover eight assets

Perpetual futures let traders keep a derivatives position open without a fixed expiry date, provided margin requirements are met. Robinhood’s planned U.S. product will let eligible users take long or short positions directly inside its app across the eight listed crypto assets.

Robinhood plans to charge 0.01% per trade through the end of 2026. The company gave no specific launch date beyond saying the rollout will take place in the coming months. BTC and ETH will carry the highest leverage limit at 10x, while SOL, XRP, DOGE, ADA, LINK and HYPE will be limited to 3x.

U.S. regulators created a clearer route for true crypto perpetual contracts earlier this year. On May 29, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission approved KalshiEX’s BTCPERP contract, which references Bitcoin’s spot price, as a futures contract. The agency issued a policy statement the same day saying perpetual contracts tied to asset classes outside the approved order should generally go through case-by-case review under CFTC Regulation 40.3.

CFTC staff separately confirmed on May 29 that certain crypto perpetuals listed on Deribit could be treated as foreign futures when offered through Coinbase Financial Markets under specified conditions. Robinhood did not tie its planned contracts to that specific staff action. Its release states that futures, including perpetual futures, will be offered by Robinhood Derivatives, a CFTC-registered futures commission merchant and NFA member.

Bitstamp will support the contracts under Robinhood Derivatives

Robinhood said the U.S. perps product will be offered by Robinhood Derivatives through Bitstamp. The brokerage completed its $200 million Bitstamp acquisition in June 2025, bringing the long-running crypto exchange into Robinhood’s group.

The Bitstamp connection follows Robinhood’s earlier use of the exchange for perpetual products outside the U.S. Its European crypto perps were routed through Bitstamp’s perpetual futures exchange, initially offering leverage of up to 3x.

By July 2026, Robinhood had extended its international derivatives lineup to perpetual contracts linked to assets including gold, silver, crude oil, ETFs and currency pairs. Related crypto.news coverage reported leverage of up to 10x on those European tradFi perpetual products.

Robinhood’s planned U.S. product raises the leverage ceiling for BTC and ETH compared with its earlier European crypto offering. Tenev said on X that the new contracts will have no expiry and that P&L will settle every 15 minutes. Robinhood’s release lists liquidation-price tracking, alerts and user-set stop-loss and take-profit orders among the available controls.

Robinhood is bringing America its first true perps.

No expiry, with P&L settled every 15 minutes.

A new chapter for US derivatives.

— Vlad Tenev (@vladtenev) September 30, 2026

The company gave no full fee schedule beyond the 0.01% rate announced through year-end. A precise date for the first contracts to go live was absent from the Sept. 29 release, leaving the product in its planned-launch stage as of Sept. 30.

Weekend stock trading is planned for early 2027

Alongside the crypto derivatives plan, Robinhood is preparing 24/7 trading for a selected group of U.S. equities and ETFs. The company says weekend trading is expected early next year and remains subject to regulatory review.

The service will extend Robinhood’s existing 24 Hour Market, which currently runs from Sunday at 8 p.m. ET through Friday at 8 p.m. ET for hundreds of stocks and ETFs. Weekend trading will begin with a curated list of securities across Robinhood account types.

Bruce ATS will provide the trading venue for the weekend sessions. Robinhood described Bruce as an institutional-grade alternative trading system, while Chief Brokerage Officer Steve Quirk said, “Breaking news doesn’t wait for an opening bell,” when discussing the planned weekend access.

Robinhood is making other changes to its trading schedule this fall. Starting in October, options trading on selected symbols will run from 7:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. ET. Eligible margin customers will be able to opt into as much as 4x intraday buying power, up from 2x, beginning next month.

Robinhood Agents will bring automated trading into the app

The summit announcement included Robinhood Agents, an in-app system that lets eligible users create AI agents for market research, strategy building and automated trading. Robinhood said more than 150,000 customers have opened agentic trading accounts since its earlier third-party agent service launched in May, with agents now using Robinhood tools nearly 30 million times per day.

Robinhood first opened its platform to outside AI agents in May through dedicated trading accounts and Model Context Protocol tools. Crypto.news reported at the time that the setup kept agents separate from customers’ primary portfolios while allowing automated actions within user-defined controls.

Robinhood Agents moves that setup inside the app, where users can choose a supported model, open a dedicated agentic account and set trading instructions and limits. Manual trade approval is turned on by default during setup, while agents can access only funds held in the dedicated account.

A planned feature called Loops will let users create recurring instructions for agents to check markets and execute trades when preset conditions are met. Robinhood’s disclosures state that customers remain responsible for the automation rules they configure and for monitoring performance, while automated trading carries the same risk of loss as manual trading.