Crypto Exchanges
By James Thorp
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Coinbase Already In, Competition Heating Up. Robinhood isn't alone here. In June, Coinbase rolled out its own agentic trading service, letting…
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Congress Presses the SEC on Market Risk. The House Financial Services Committee sent questions to the SEC about agentic trading.
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What Retail Crypto Traders Are Actually Getting. For the average Robinhood user, the pitch is simple: let the AI watch the market so you don't have…
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Robinhood wants AI to trade crypto for you. The company said eligible U.S. customers can now connect artificial intelligence agents to their accounts to buy and sell…
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The equities version launched May 27 in beta. Crypto is the next layer. Users who want in will need to open a separate account specifically for agentic trading — it doesn't fold…
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That's how many agentic accounts were opened in the first few weeks after the equities launch. Pretty fast uptake for a beta product.
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Robinhood isn't alone here. In June, Coinbase rolled out its own agentic trading service, letting users automate trades and payments through AI.
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The broader shift toward AI-driven trading isn't just a product story — it's a regulatory one too. And that part's getting complicated.
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The House Financial Services Committee sent questions to the SEC about agentic trading. Specifically, Representatives Bill Foster and Brad Sherman raised concerns about market…
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Read also: Robinhoods 70,000-Account AI Agent Moves Into Crypto Trading
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The liability question is thorny too. When an AI agent makes a bad trade — or a series of them that moves a market — who's responsible? The broker-dealer?
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Unclear yet whether the SEC will push for new rules, issue guidance, or simply punt the question back to existing frameworks. The industry's waiting.
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For the average Robinhood user, the pitch is simple: let the AI watch the market so you don't have to. Crypto markets run 24/7, which is exhausting to track manually.
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But "useful" and "safe" aren't always the same thing. The concerns Foster and Sherman raised aren't just regulatory box-checking. They're pointing at a real structural risk.
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Read also: EUs MiCA Custodian Crackdown Puts 27-Nation Crypto License at Stake
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