Morning Minute: Robinhood Adds Perps, Weekend Stocks, and AI Traders

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Today’s top news:

• Crypto majors chop ahead of economic data; BTC at $83.9k
• Robinhood makes slew of announcements at Summit, including perps, weekend stock trading, agentic trading, social app and more
• CBOE may work on tokenized options contracts
• Blockchain dot com targeting $500M IPO; Kalshi raising again at $40B
• Pump leads onchain protocols in revenue again with $2.26M

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🏗️ Robinhood Makes a Slew of Announcements at HOOD Summit

Robinhood used its Houston summit Tuesday night to announce more new products at once than it has in years. Crypto perpetual futures. Weekend stock trading. AI agents that place trades. Contracts on company earnings. Longer options hours and more intraday margin. All of it aimed at one group: active traders.

• Perps come to U.S. customers. Bitcoin and ether contracts will offer up to 10x leverage, with other assets starting at 3x, through Robinhood Derivatives and Bitstamp (not Lighter). Robinhood’s head of U.S. futures products said traders want leverage, but the company chose to start safer on smaller coins.
• Weekend stock trading. Robinhood launched round-the-clock trading in 2023, but it still stopped on weekends. Now a selection of stocks and ETFs will trade 24-7 and Saturday and Sunday through an alternative venue called Bruce ATS. That closes the last gap between stocks and crypto.
• AI agents that trade for you. Users can create an agent inside the app, pick a model from OpenAI or Anthropic, and give it its own trading account to research markets and place trades. A feature called Loops lets users set standing instructions so the agent acts on its own when conditions are met. More than 150,000 agent accounts already exist from when Robinhood opened its systems to outside AI earlier this year.
• Earnings contracts. Through Cboe, users will be able to trade on whether a company hits a specific number—revenue, earnings per share, or in Apple’s case, iPhone sales.
• Social trading app. Robinhood announced its Robinhood Social app is now live inside their main app, throwing its hat in the ring alongside Fomo and Pump in the hottest new niche in onchain trading.