Robinhood said it will give customers an AI agent that can trade on their behalf — even overnight — and is expanding crypto betting with leverage of up to 10x, according to CoinDesk.
The features push the broker deeper into automated and higher-risk trading, blurring the line between traditional brokerage and crypto derivatives. They also raise familiar questions about how retail investors understand leverage and automated advice.
Why it matters
Regulators have been scrutinising retail access to leveraged products and the growing role of AI in financial advice. Robinhood’s move is a signal of how AI assistants and retail trading may converge — and of the risk-management questions that follow.
What to watch: how regulators respond to AI-driven trading features and whether other brokers follow with similar tools.
