Robinhood is preparing to offer perpetual futures to eligible U.S. customers, extending one of crypto's largest derivatives markets into its domestic trading app. The move brings a product class that grew up on crypto-native exchanges — and only became broadly accessible through U.S.-regulated venues during 2026 — into a mainstream retail brokerage app.

The rollout will support eight assets — BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, DOGE, ADA, LINK and HYPE — allowing traders to take long or short positions without an expiration date. Bitcoin and Ether perpetuals will offer leverage of up to 10x, while the remaining six markets will be capped at 3x leverage. The contracts are scheduled to arrive in the coming months.

The U.S. expansion follows Robinhood's earlier perpetual futures rollout in Europe, where the company has already extended derivatives beyond crypto into commodities, ETFs and foreign exchange.

Bitstamp Will Power the U.S. Perpetuals Offering

The contracts will be offered by Robinhood Derivatives through Bitstamp, the long-running global crypto exchange Robinhood acquired in 2025. Robinhood Derivatives is a CFTC-registered futures commission merchant and a member of the National Futures Association, placing the offering within a domestically regulated framework.

Trading fees will start at 0.01% per transaction through the end of 2026. Traders will also be able to set stop-loss and take-profit orders, monitor liquidation prices in real time, and receive alerts when leveraged positions approach liquidation levels.

Perpetual futures differ from conventional dated futures in that positions can remain open indefinitely, with margin requirements and periodic funding payments between long and short holders keeping contract prices aligned with their underlying markets. Higher leverage reduces the collateral required to control a position, but it also narrows the price movement needed to trigger liquidation.

U.S. Crypto Perps Market Keeps Expanding

Robinhood is entering a U.S. market that has opened rapidly to perpetual-style crypto derivatives during 2026. In June, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) created a faster route for crypto perpetual futures, allowing qualifying registered exchanges to remove expiration dates from existing digital commodity contracts when specified customer-protection and filing conditions are met. Kraken followed days later with U.S. crypto perps covering major assets including Bitcoin, Ether, Solana, XRP, Cardano, Chainlink Dogecoin.

Robinhood already offers conventional crypto futures to U.S. customers and has spent 2026 expanding derivatives, tokenization and onchain products around its Bitstamp acquisition and Robinhood Chain strategy.

The new perpetual markets will sit directly inside the Robinhood app for eligible U.S. accounts. The company has not yet published an exact launch date beyond the coming months, leaving the eight announced contracts and their leverage limits as the initial U.S. product lineup. The remaining markers to watch are the final launch timing, how the 0.01% fee schedule is adjusted once the promotional window ends after 2026, and whether the initial lineup of eight contracts expands.