Crypto Perpetual Futures

Robinhood is moving deeper into active trading with an AI agent designed to research markets, build strategies and place trades inside customer-set limits. The platform is also preparing crypto perpetual futures for eligible U.S. users, including up to 10x leverage on bitcoin and ether.

Robinhood is rolling out new products aimed at active traders, including AI-powered agents, crypto perpetual futures and weekend trading for select U.S. stocks and ETFs. The brokerage is leaning further into crypto-style market structure as investor expectations shift toward longer hours, more automation and more ways to take risk.

U.S. market regulators are advancing crypto rulemaking after the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act failed to move forward. The push may give the sector near-term guidance, but agency action remains less durable than legislation.

Kalshi is integrating Solana-based DoubleZeroEdge into its prediction market order book to support institutional demand for low-latency data. The move brings a Wall Street-style distribution model to onchain market infrastructure, giving connected traders simultaneous access to live exchange and onchain data.

CME Group Chairman and CEO Terry Duffy says U.S. approval of perpetual futures could leave traders exposed to unresolved tax questions if the products are ultimately deemed swaps rather than futures. Legal specialists say the dispute is complex, with courts, regulators and the IRS potentially taking separate paths on classification and reporting.