Bybit has
opened a dedicated account type that lets AI trading bots operate inside a
walled-off space, separate from a client’s main funds. The crypto exchange is
pitching the feature, which it calls the AI Subaccount, at developers and
traders across the Middle East and North Africa.

The launch
lands in the middle of a fast-moving shift. Over the first half of 2026, at
least ten retail brokers and platform vendors wired AI agents into live client
accounts, according
to a FM Intelligence study, most of them running on the same open plumbing.
Bybit’s move pulls a crypto exchange into that group.

According
to the company, the AI Subaccount confines all bot activity to the segregated
account, with no access to the main account or other…