“Whether you’re an expert or are just getting started with AI, you’re at a disadvantage if you’re not using Robinhood,” said Abhishek Fatehpuria, Robinhood’s vice president of product management.

There are guardrails. An agent can only touch the money in its own account. Customers must approve each trade by default, although they can switch that off.

Robinhood is also bringing perpetual futures, a hugely popular crypto product, to eligible U.S. customers inside its app.

Perpetual futures, or perps, are bets on crypto prices that never expire. They trade mostly on offshore exchanges and account for the bulk of crypto trading, with daily volume topping $200 billion.

Traders post a deposit, called margin, and the exchange lets them control a…