Robinhood Adds AI Agents, Perpetual Futures and Weekend US Stock ETF Trading

Robinhood is pushing toward round-the-clock, automated and leveraged access in one sweep, collapsing the traditional boundaries between brokerage, crypto venue and AI interface. The perpetual futures launch matters most for market structure: it brings offshore-style leveraged crypto products into a regulated US retail app, which could draw scrutiny even as it broadens participation. The open question is whether AI-executed trades and weekend sessions deepen genuine engagement or simply add risk surface — and how regulators and competitors respond to a brokerage that now spans nearly every trading hour and asset class.