Robinhood lets US users trade crypto via AI agents
The retail-trading platform is opening its API surface to agentic trading, betting that algorithmic execution becomes the default interface for the next wave of self-directed crypto investors.
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The retail-trading platform is opening its API surface to agentic trading, betting that algorithmic execution becomes the default interface for the next wave of self-directed crypto investors.
CASHCAT alone generated roughly $98M of the $560–570M total, but a Morpho-driven TVL crossing $100M in week one is the more durable signal for the new Layer-2.
Permissionless rails meet a retail-grade brand: in week one, an unlisted cat token outgrew the chain's RWA ambitions in market cap and volume.
The Wall Street-broker-built L2 has crossed a half-billion-dollar day and is onboarding 140K+ fresh wallets in 24 hours, with memecoin trading driving most of the flow.
A memecoin built around an abandoned mascot became the first breakout on the brokerage's RWA-focused chain, exposing the tension between tokenized-stocks ambition and the speculative flow that…
Record DEX volume pairs with ~200K daily active addresses and a meme-coin launch wave, suggesting retail-driven throughput, not just one whale's flow.
The pitch lands as the network is barely five months live and still ranked outside the top 80 by activity, framing retail-driven meme trading as the wedge product for institutional rails later.
Zero-commission US stock trading slots into a super-app roadmap as Gemini joins the commission-free brokerage race already anchored by Robinhood.
The setup flipped in three days: ETH led $417M in short liquidations, BTC reclaimed $61.6K, and the rate-hike probability that had been pinning risk assets collapsed alongside the July payrolls print.
Vlad Tenev frames the trade as TradFi and digital assets merging: tokenized funds and onchain treasuries are the wedge, and memecoins are the noise he says doesn't deserve attention.
The brokerage unveiled Robinhood Chain, an Arbitrum-based L2 for tokenized real-world assets, alongside a 7% yield USDG lending product, just as analysts say its prediction-market revenue is on track…
The EU perps launch is the headline, but the layered product rollout across lending, AI trade execution, tokenized equities and a proprietary L2 points to a broker that is rebuilding itself as a…
The launch puts a US retail-finance brand with 24M funded customers directly into Britain's FCA-supervised market, days after the regulator tightened rules on platform promotions.
A retail-broker-built L2 is the first credible signal that Wall Street's bridge to public chains has shifted from custody pilots to owning infrastructure itself.
An Arbitrum-based L2 from a US retail giant flips the switch with Uniswap live day one, while 24/7 stock tokens, Robinhood Earn, and crypto agentic accounts queue up behind it.
The stunt reuses the agentic-trading story that's defined 2026, but the headline is the brand play, not the volume: Robinhood wants retail to associate agents with its app.
The brokerage-to-DeFi leap is the bigger read than any single product: a Wall Street brand is now shipping its own L2 plus a 7% lending yield, and HOOD jumped 5% on the day.
Europe's full regulatory regime takes hold on July 1, just hours before the U.S. nonfarm payrolls print that will set the dollar-liquidity backdrop for the rest of the quarter.
Eight months after Bitcoin topped, declining volumes, venture pullback and sector-wide cuts point to a late-stage cycle, historically one of the strongest windows to position for the next run.
Robinhood Markets (HOOD) said Tuesday it is laying off roughly 10% of its workforce, a move CEO Vlad Tenev framed to…