Robinhood says eligible US-based customers will soon be able to connect third-party AI agents that can place cryptocurrency trades on their behalf—an extension of its “agentic trading” push that the firm previously rolled out for equities and options.

The company did not provide a specific US launch date, but Robinhood indicated UK customers would be next in line. The move positions automated, rules-based trading as the next layer of retail crypto access, while also tying it to broader blockchain ambitions including Robinhood’s recently launched Ethereum layer-2 network, Robinhood Chain.

Key takeaways

• Robinhood plans to let eligible customers connect third-party AI agents to execute crypto trades with predefined guardrails.
• A US rollout date for crypto agent trading was not announced; UK access is expected to come first.
• Robinhood’s equities/options agent product went to beta in late May, and more than 70,000 agentic accounts have been created since then.
• Robinhood said its Robinhood Chain processed 17 million transactions from nearly 350,000 wallet addresses in its first week.
• Despite growing integrations for AI-agent payments, on-chain activity routed through some agent-payment rails remains limited—Artemis data cited $2 million in June for x402-facilitated volume.

Robinhood expands “agentic trading” to crypto

During a presentation on Friday, a Robinhood executive said the goal is to let users collaborate with AI agents to build trading strategies that include specific constraints, reducing the need for constant account monitoring.

Robinhood’s crypto agent trading offering will be available to eligible customers in the United States, but the firm did not specify when that eligibility window will open. The company also said it would extend access to its UK customers before—or alongside—US expansion.

For context, Robinhood has already been experimenting with AI-driven investment decisions in traditional markets. According to Robinhood’s own messaging, equities traders can already use agentic accounts to request investments in areas such as crypto mining stocks, including via the same underlying concept of delegating certain actions to AI agents under user-defined rules.

How the system works—and what Robinhood is integrating

Robinhood’s approach centers on offering “agentic accounts” through multiple third-party AI providers. The company said it will connect eligible users with agents from companies including Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX’s Grok.

In addition to crypto trading, Robinhood also indicated it is enabling some eligible users to have credit card purchases executed on their behalf by AI agents—suggesting the firm is building out a wider portfolio of delegated actions rather than limiting autonomy to markets only.

For retail investors, the key promise is practicality: instead of tracking markets continuously, a user can define boundaries for an AI agent and let it act when those conditions are met. However, readers should watch how Robinhood frames “guardrails” in the crypto context—especially around risk limits, trade frequency, and what happens if an agent’s assumptions about market data break down.

Autonomy meets Robinhood’s blockchain strategy

The crypto agent-trading update comes alongside Robinhood’s expanding on-chain infrastructure efforts. Earlier this month, the company launched Robinhood Chain, an Ethereum layer-2 network.

Robinhood executive Johann Kerbrat said Robinhood Chain processed 17 million transactions from nearly 350,000 wallet addresses during its first week. While this figure is not directly tied to agent trading activity, it helps explain why autonomy is becoming a strategic focus: systems that delegate actions to software agents can benefit from faster settlement and composable on-chain workflows.

Robinhood also pointed to traction on its agent product in equities and options. The company said over 70,000 agentic accounts have already been created by equities and options traders since late May, when the platform launched a beta version of the agentic trading feature.

Broader AI-agent payments momentum—yet activity still trails expectations

Robinhood’s push reflects an industry-wide belief that AI agents will become frequent users of blockchain payments, particularly as agents increasingly handle real-world tasks and financial decisions. Earlier coverage from Cointelegraph noted optimism from major crypto and fintech executives, including Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong and Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire, about AI agents becoming dominant users of blockchain payments over the next few years.

Several recent integrations illustrate how AI-agent spending is being wired into crypto rails. In May, Amazon Web Services integrated Coinbase’s x402 payments protocol into Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, enabling agents to transact using the USDC stablecoin.

More broadly, crypto wallet startup Oobit launched in April a Visa-supported virtual card aimed at enabling AI agents to make online purchases in USDt (USDT) on behalf of businesses.

Still, available data suggests adoption of agent-centric payment rails remains early. According to Artemis data cited in the original report, only $2 million in transaction volume was facilitated through the AI agent-supported x402 protocol in June. That discrepancy—between high-level momentum and relatively modest on-chain routed volumes—may matter for investors evaluating which parts of the agent-payment stack are gaining real traction first.

What to watch next

Robinhood’s next steps—especially the timing of crypto agent trading for US customers, the exact implementation of “guardrails,” and whether agent-linked activity grows beyond initial experimentation—will determine whether delegated trading becomes a durable retail feature or remains a niche capability as the wider ecosystem develops AI-agent payments.

XRP spent the first half of 2026 defending the one level that matters, the $1 mark, while a wall of bullish fundamentals, ETF inflows, whale accumulation, and a finished lawsuit failed to move the price. Now a delayed act of Congress has become the single catalyst that could break the deadlock in either direction. This is the level, the tension between fundamentals and price, and the honest case on both sides for the month ahead.

XRP (XRP) enters July 2026 trading near $1.14, and the number hides a standoff. For months, the token has done something that frustrates every holder watching the headlines: it has absorbed a steady stream of unambiguously bullish news, sustained ETF inflows, tripling whale accumulation, the long legal cloud finally lifted, and gone essentially nowhere, pinned in a range whose floor is the psychologically decisive $1.00 mark. The fundamentals say one thing, and the price says another, and the gap between them is the defining feature of XRP right now.

The catalyst that could finally resolve the standoff is not a product or a partnership but a piece of legislation. The market-structure bill that would settle how digital assets like XRP are classified in the United States, and with it the path to spot ETF conversions and deeper institutional access, has slipped from its expected timeline toward late July or August, and its progress or delay has become the swing factor traders are watching above all else. XRP sits, in other words, between a well-defended floor and a legislative catalyst, with fundamentals loaded on one side and a stubborn chart on the other, waiting for something to break the tension.

Meta (Nasdaq:META) executives and directors have unloaded roughly $130 million of company stock over the past six months. Across the same half year, they have bought exactly zero shares.

That selling might have been more palatable if they had, as executives and directors, helped the stock price go up over that time period. They did not.

META, trading on the Nasdaq, is worth less today than it was six months ago.

Worse, their stock sales clustered near the higher range of 2026, months before an AI spending spree knocked the stock down. Since the start of the year, the company has lost $60 billion in market capitalization.

Pi Network entered July 2026 at a fresh all-time low near $0.10, its most oversold reading since launch, facing a supply-and-demand collision the whole market is watching. On the supply side, 103.7 million tokens unlock this month. On the demand side, a set of Pi2Day product launches promises to create real utility for the first time. This is the levels, the collision at the center of the forecast, and the honest case on both sides for a token at its lowest ebb.

Pi Network (PI) enters July 2026 at the weakest point in its short public history, trading near $0.10 to $0.114 after setting a fresh all-time low, with momentum indicators showing the deepest oversold reading since the token began trading.

The price has fallen through support levels that held repeatedly in prior months, strung together a multi-day losing streak, and now tests the psychologically critical $0.10 line, below which lies uncharted territory. For a project that launched with enormous community expectations, the chart is a sobering picture, and the month ahead is defined by a single collision.

That collision is supply against demand, stated almost too cleanly. On the supply side, roughly 103.7 million PI tokens unlock in July, an increase of some 27 million over the prior month, adding fresh sellable supply to a market already struggling to find buyers, the same supply-versus-demand pressure that dragged the broader altcoin market through the first half. 

On the demand side, the project has timed a set of product launches around its annual Pi2Day event, including a verification tool with a fee-in-PI model, a hosting product, and a sign-in service, each intended to create genuine token utility and, with it, genuine demand for the first time. The entire July forecast reduces to which side of that collision wins: whether the new products can manufacture demand fast enough to absorb the unlock supply, or whether the supply overwhelms the demand and pushes an already record-low token lower.

This prediction maps the collision the way a trader would: the price levels that matter now that the token is in uncharted low territory, the bearish case built on the unlock calendar and the broken trend, the bullish case built on extreme oversold conditions and the new utility, the analyst target ranges worth knowing, and the honest bottom line on a token at its lowest ebb. 

None of it is investment advice; Pi’s volatility and its unusual mining-and-distribution history make it especially unpredictable, and readers should treat every number here as a scenario rather than a promise.

The levels that matter

With the token at fresh lows, the level map is unusually stark, because much of the price history that would normally provide reference points sits above the current price, leaving fewer prior floors below. Pi trades near $0.10 to $0.114, beneath the moving averages that now slope down and cap rallies, and the structure is decisively bearish on the trend even as it stretches to an oversold extreme.

On the downside, the defining level is the $0.10 psychological line, a round number the token is actively testing and whose failure would push Pi into territory it has never traded in, where the absence of prior support makes the next floor hard to define and a swift move lower more possible.

Just beneath the current price, the $0.110 area and the recently broken support that had held around $0.12 now act as the immediate reference points, with $0.12 having flipped from support to resistance after the breakdown. Losing $0.10 decisively is the bearish trigger that opens the widest downside, precisely because so little prior structure lies below it.

On the upside, reclaiming the broken $0.12 support is the bulls’ first task, and turning it back from resistance into support would be the first sign the breakdown is being repaired. Above that, the levels near $0.1228, $0.1344, and $0.1496 mark the resistance steps a recovery would have to climb, each corresponding to prior consolidation zones, and clearing them in sequence would signal the oversold bounce maturing into something more durable.

The structure, in short, is a token in a confirmed downtrend at an oversold extreme, testing a psychological floor with thin support beneath it and a staircase of resistance above, where the direction of the next significant move depends heavily on whether the month’s demand catalysts can arrest the decline.

The bearish case: the unlock calendar and the broken trend

The case for continued weakness starts with the supply calendar, because it is the most concrete force acting on the token this month. Roughly 103.7 million PI unlock in July, up about 27 million from the prior month, and every unlocked token is potential new supply entering a market that has struggled to absorb it.

Token unlocks are a scheduled, readable form of selling pressure, and when the demand side is weak, as a record-low price suggests it currently is, fresh unlock supply tends to push price down as newly liquid tokens meet insufficient buying. For a token already at all-time lows, an increase in the monthly unlock is a direct headwind, and it is the single most important bearish fact of the month.

The second bearish force is the broken trend itself. Pi has fallen through supports that held repeatedly, and a token making fresh lows beneath falling moving averages is, by definition, in a downtrend that has not yet shown a bottom, with each broken support becoming resistance on any bounce.

Sentiment has followed price down; the community enthusiasm that drove earlier interest has faded into fatigue, and the demand indicators that matter, trading activity and the appetite to hold rather than sell, have thinned. A token in this posture is vulnerable to the reflexive dynamic where falling prices beget more selling as disappointed holders exit, and the record-low price is itself a signal that this dynamic has been in control. If the July unlock supply meets this weak demand backdrop without the new products generating meaningful offsetting buying, the bearish path points toward a break of $0.10 and a move into the undefined territory below it.

Understanding the unlock: why 103.7 million matters

Because the unlock number anchors the bearish case, it is worth understanding what it represents and why the monthly figure moves, since the mechanics are specific to Pi’s unusual design. Pi’s supply was distributed over years through its mobile mining phase, during which participants accumulated tokens that remained locked, subject to release schedules tied to identity verification, holding commitments, and the network’s migration to its open mainnet. Each month, a tranche of these previously locked tokens becomes transferable, converting balances that existed but could not be sold into supply that can, and July’s tranche is roughly 103.7 million, up about 27 million from the prior month.

The increase is the part that matters for price. A larger monthly unlock means more new sellable supply arriving into the market than the month before, and unless demand grows to match, the additional supply weighs on price through simple arithmetic: more tokens available to sell, the same or less buying to absorb them.

For a token already at all-time lows, where the price itself signals that existing demand is struggling to absorb existing supply, an uptick in the unlock is a direct and quantifiable headwind. This is why the unlock calendar is the single most-watched supply metric for Pi, and why the July figure features in nearly every forecast: it is the one large, scheduled, knowable force acting against the price, and its size this month is larger than last.

The nuance the bears sometimes skip is that not all unlocked tokens sell. Unlocked supply is potential selling pressure, not guaranteed selling, and whether it actually hits the market depends on holder behavior: participants who believe in the project may hold their newly liquid tokens instead of dumping them, particularly if the new products give them a reason to use their tokens instead of selling.

This is precisely where the supply and demand sides of the collision meet, because the same products that aim to create buying demand could also reduce selling by giving holders a use for their tokens, which is why the month’s outcome is not a mechanical certainty but a genuine contest between a known supply increase and an uncertain demand response.

The pivot beneath the price: distribution to utility

The deepest way to read Pi’s July is as a test of the project’s central transition, because the token’s entire situation reflects a pivot that every large community-distributed project eventually faces. Pi spent its formative years on distribution: acquiring users through mobile mining, building one of the largest claimed user bases in crypto, tens of millions of participants, and spreading tokens widely through that process. That phase created supply and community but not, by design, much in the way of token utility, and the current price weakness is in large part the market repricing a token whose distribution vastly outran its usefulness.

The Pi2Day product launches represent the attempt to complete the other half of the arc: converting a distribution network into a utility network, where the token is used and demanded, not merely held and eventually sold. The verification product’s fee-in-PI model is the clearest expression of the strategy, because a service that requires spending PI creates a demand for PI that exists independent of speculation, the kind of structural, recurring buying that could, at sufficient scale, offset the unlock supply permanently instead of temporarily. The hosting and sign-in products extend the same logic into developer and application use cases. Whether this pivot succeeds is the question that dwarfs any single month’s price action, and July is significant precisely because it is the first real test of the strategy at the moment the token most needs it to work.

Robinhood (Nasdaq:HOOD) launched the public mainnet of its new blockchain on July 1, and unfortunately, tons of people are already losing money trading its coins. Bad actors are using a variety of scam contracts, memecoin rug-pulls, phishing links, and garden variety theft, leading to complaints of loss flooding onto social media.

Relay Protocol warned about scam tokens on the new Robinhood Chain: “If you bought one, the funds you spent are unfortunately gone.”

In this example, scam contracts are accepting a token swap, briefly crediting the buyer’s wallet yet immediately transferring the tokens back to the deployer’s wallet. In other words, users unwittingly purchased tokens for someone else.

Bitcoin (BTC) demand shifts are “behind” the price rebound to $64,000, new analysis claims.

Key points:

• New Bitcoin price analysis says that US whales are behind the latest spate of BTC price relief.
• The Coinbase Premium is above its 14-day moving average, a key sign of strength.
• Research from Bitcoin Suisse suggests that “something changed” on the market this week.

Bitcoin Coinbase Premium still negative despite trend line reclaim

In a blog post on Friday, onchain analytics platform CryptoQuant attributed Bitcoin’s July upside to US-based whales.

Specifically, the Coinbase Premium — the difference in price between Coinbase’s and Binance’s BTC/USDT pairs — is showing early signs of buy-side momentum “regaining strength.”

“The Coinbase Premium Index for both BTC and ETH remains in negative territory, but both have bounced off their local lows,” contributor Burak Kesmeci wrote. 

“On top of that, both metrics managed to reclaim their SMA14. This is what’s behind Bitcoin’s move from 58K to 64K, and Ethereum’s rally from $1,500 to $1,750.”

Bitcoin Coinbase Premium Index with 14-day SMA. Source: CryptoQuant

Kesmeci referred to the Coinbase Premium Index’s 14-day simple moving average. As Cointelegraph reported, the Index has spent much of 2026 in negative territory, implying weak demand from both large and small investors on the largest US crypto exchange.

“Once again, U.S. whale activity is proving to be the leading data point for trend direction. Short-, medium-, and long-term regime shifts can all be read through this metric,” Kesmeci continued.

The Index currently sits at -0.08, per CryptoQuant data, having last flipped positive on daily time frames more than two months ago.

“The current picture is a catalyst for a short-term bounce — but for a real long-term regime change, this metric needs to break above zero,” Kesmeci concluded.

Bitcoin Suisse: “Bottom signal framework flashing”

 As Cointelegraph reported, institutional demand is also on the radar for market participants.

Related: BTC speculators in focus as analysis says ‘textbook Bitcoin bottom’ is underway

The US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) saw their first net inflows after a record-breaking $2.7 billion losing streak.

Data from UK-based investment company Farside Investors nonetheless shows investor sentiment remains sensitive to even small BTC price moves.

On Thursday, a third straight day of net outflows totaled $95.3 million.

US spot Bitcoin ETF netflows (screenshot). Source: Farside Investors

Analyzing a basket of metrics, crypto finance provider Bitcoin Suisse included ETF flow data as one signal that the status quo on the market has changed.

“Eight weeks of ETF outflows. Bitcoin at a 21-month low. This week, something shifted,” it told X followers in a thread on Friday.

Bitcoin Suisse described a “bottom signal framework flashing” while the Crypto Fear & Greed Index remained in its lowest “extreme greed” zone.

Crypto’s infrastructure is starting to look a lot more like traditional finance. New data from Dune shows that the world’s stablecoin leaders — Tether’s USDT and Circle’s USDC — are no longer competing for the same users, with each now dominating a different corner of the market. Meanwhile, demand for MiCA-compliant euro stablecoins is accelerating, hinting that the stablecoin economy is slowly expanding beyond the US dollar.

Elsewhere in Crypto Biz, Strategy reignited debate over its “never sell” philosophy after offloading more than $200 million in Bitcoin (BTC) to fund shareholder dividends, while Vanguard signaled that even Wall Street’s biggest crypto skeptics are embracing tokenization.

USDT, USDC use cases diverge as stablecoins become chain-specific

USDT has become crypto’s dominant payments stablecoin while USDC has cemented itself as DeFi’s preferred settlement asset, according to new data from Dune.

Rather than competing head-on, the industry’s two largest stablecoins are carving out distinct roles. USDT settled $95 billion in identified commercial payments during the first half of 2026 and continues to dominate business-to-business transfers. USDC, meanwhile, is driving onchain trading and DeFi activity, processing trillions of dollars in monthly transfer volume across Base and Ethereum. 

The divergence suggests Tether and Circle are strengthening their positions where network effects are already on their side. 

The supply of USDT is divided almost evenly between Tron and Ethereum, while USDC remains highly active on Ethereum. Source: Dune

Strategy sells more than $200 million in BTC

Strategy sold 3,588 Bitcoin worth $216 million to fund preferred stock dividends, marking its largest sale since adopting BTC as its treasury asset.

The sale trimmed Strategy’s holdings to 843,775 BTC and follows a new capital framework that allows Bitcoin sales to fund dividend payments. Even so, the company kept its $2.55 billion cash reserve intact, suggesting the biggest publicly traded BTC holder isn’t under liquidity pressure but is opting for greater financial flexibility as its preferred shares trade below par.

The sale is unlikely to signal a broader shift away from Strategy’s Bitcoin accumulation strategy, according to Bernstein analysts. Still, it has fueled fresh debate over the company’s departure from co-founder Michael Saylor’s long-standing “never sell” mantra, even as Strategy remains the largest corporate buyer of Bitcoin. 

Strategy’s yearly net Bitcoin purchases. Source: Bernstein

Euro stablecoins gain traction under MiCA

The market capitalization of MiCA-compliant euro stablecoins surged 128% in the year leading up to the EU’s July 1 regulatory transition deadline, suggesting the overwhelmingly US dollar-dominated stablecoin market is beginning to diversify, according to payments company Decta.

The combined value of eight actively traded euro stablecoins climbed to nearly $674 million, while trading volume increased 43% over the same period. To be sure, euro-pegged tokens remain a niche market, accounting for just 0.22% of the roughly $315 billion dollar-backed stablecoin sector.

The growth comes as Europe debates whether its MiCA regime is helping or hindering the bloc’s digital asset ambitions. Industry groups argue the framework has made euro stablecoins safer but less competitive through strict reserve requirements and a ban on yield, while policymakers remain divided over whether loosening the rules would help the euro compete with the dollar.

The market capitalization of the eight largest euro-denominated stablecoins. Source: Decta

Vanguard seeks digital asset executive 

Vanguard is hiring a head of digital assets to oversee its strategy on tokenization, stablecoins and blockchain infrastructure, signaling a notable shift for one of Wall Street’s most crypto-skeptical asset managers.

The new executive will help shape Vanguard’s approach to digital asset products and custody and represent the asset manager in discussions with regulators, according to the job posting. The hiring stands in sharp contrast to the asset manager’s long-standing refusal to offer or even support spot Bitcoin ETFs.

The move reflects a broader shift across traditional finance, where tokenization has become a strategic priority regardless of firms’ views on cryptocurrencies. Asset managers, including BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, Fidelity and WisdomTree, have all expanded their tokenized fund offerings as demand for blockchain-based financial products continues to grow.

The head of digital assets job posting first appeared on July 6. Source: Vanguardjobs.com

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Crypto exchange Backpack has launched 24/7 trading for select tokenized US equities, allowing international investors to trade stocks including SpaceX, Micron and SanDisk around the clock.

Under the initial offering, Backpack said that investors would receive direct ownership of the underlying securities rather than synthetic exposure, with trades settling instantly and funded in fiat currency or stablecoins. The initial offering includes a limited selection of US equities, with additional stocks planned.

The company also offers Solana-based tokenized versions of the securities, which can be transferred between wallets, used in decentralized finance applications and converted 1:1 into the corresponding shares through Backpack.

Backpack said the service is available to investors in more than 150 countries and regions and that trades are backed by liquidity from traditional exchanges.

The company added that tokenized SpaceX shares became the most actively traded tokenized version of the private rocket and AI company after launching in June, though it did not disclose trading volumes or provide comparisons with competing offerings.

Related: Tokenized stock transfers surge 105% in a month to $8.4B

Earlier this year, Backpack unveiled a token distribution model tied to its planned US initial public offering. Users who stake the exchange’s native token for at least one year will be eligible to exchange it for company equity after the IPO, while part of the token supply will remain locked until at least one year after the listing.

Traditional finance joins tokenized equities push

Backpack’s launch comes as tokenized equities have become one of the fastest-growing segments of the onchain real-world asset (RWA) market.

According to RWA.xyz data, the tokenized stock market has grown from about $379 million to $1.85 billion over the past year. Over the past 30 days alone, distributed value has climbed 28.6%, while monthly transfer volume has surged over 85% to $8.76 billion.

Tokenized stocks. Source: RWA.xyz

Crypto exchanges have led much of that growth. Kraken, which acquired xStocks developer Backed Finance in late 2025, has expanded the platform across its exchange, while Bybit and Bitget have also integrated xStocks. Coinbase and Binance have likewise rolled out tokenized equity offerings in recent months.

Traditional exchanges have also embraced tokenization. In March, the SEC approved Nasdaq’s pilot to trade tokenized stocks alongside conventional securities on the same exchange, while the New York Stock Exchange partnered with Securitize to develop a 24/7 platform for tokenized stocks and ETFs.

The following month, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) announced plans to launch a tokenized securities service in October after a pilot involving more than 50 financial and crypto firms.

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