Robinhood Perp Futures: 10x Leverage for US Clients

Robinhood plans to offer eligible customers in the United States perpetual futures on eight cryptocurrencies, with up to ten times leverage on Bitcoin and Ethereum. The broker announced this on the evening of September 29, 2026, at its own HOOD Summit conference in Houston, alongside a whole series of further trading products. None of it is tradable yet: the statement names no launch date and speaks instead of the coming months.

For an investor in Europe the news is still more than a note about an American broker. Robinhood runs its perpetuals business in Europe over the same technical chain, and the leverage unlocked there differs sharply from the American figures. On top of that comes a point most reports leave out: for tax purposes a leveraged contract on Bitcoin is something entirely different from a Bitcoin sitting in your own account.

What Robinhood announced: eight perpetual futures, 10x leverage on BTC and ETH

According to the company statement, eligible US customers will be able to take long and short positions on Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, XRP, Dogecoin, Cardano, Chainlink and HYPE, with no expiry date. Leverage runs up to 10x on the Bitcoin and Ethereum contracts and 3x on the other six. Until the end of the year Robinhood says it will charge one basis point per trade, or 0.01 percent of the contract value. The contracts are offered by Robinhood Derivatives, a futures commission merchant registered with the US regulator, and run technically over the Bitstamp trading platform.