Robinhood's AI Can Now Trade While You Sleep | CoinDesk Daily

Robinhood says its AI agents can research markets, develop trading strategies and place trades for customers at any hour, including while customers are away. More than 150,000 people have opened agentic accounts since the company made its infrastructure available to outside agents earlier this year. The figure signals early adoption, though the synopsis gives no information about trading volume, performance or how customers are using the accounts.

The company is also bringing cryptocurrency perpetual futures to eligible U.S. customers, with up to 10x leverage on Bitcoin and Ether. Robinhood says it aims to become the best place in the world for active traders. The products extend its push toward automated and leveraged trading, but access to the futures is limited to eligible customers, and the stated leverage level is a maximum rather than a description of every trade.

Cboe and S&P Dow Jones extended their licensing agreement through 2051, with Cboe retaining exclusive rights to S&P 500 index options. The firms may explore tokenized options, but they announced neither a product nor a timeline. Any such options could hold collateral on-chain, represent strike prices and expirations in smart contracts, and settle automatically; these are possible features, not a confirmed offering.

Brazilian market operator CSDBR, which is responsible for roughly $4 trillion in registered assets, will use the public XRP Ledger as a second record of share ownership for selected BTG investment funds. Banks will be able to compare the blockchain record with CSDBR’s official database in real time, replacing slower reconciliation between records. The ledger is therefore being used as a parallel ownership record, while CSDBR’s database remains the official one.