Robinhood Routes Crypto Perpetuals via Bitstamp
On 29 September 2026 Robinhood said U.S. crypto perpetual futures would run through Bitstamp. One report says the launch is coming in the months ahead. The other says the rollout began that day.
On 29 September 2026 Robinhood said U.S. crypto perpetual futures would run through Bitstamp. Robinhood crypto perpetual futures Bitstamp is the pairing both accounts describe: a U.S. perpetual-futures offering, with Bitstamp as the route. Both pages say the contracts have no expiry, that leverage runs up to 10x on bitcoin and ether, and that it runs to 3x on SOL, XRP, DOGE, ADA, LINK, and HYPE. The fee both pages state is 0.01 percent, one basis point, per trade through the end of 2026. The two pages do not date the rollout the same way.
What happened
Robinhood's statement, as both accounts present it, is dated 29 September 2026. The product is U.S. crypto perpetual futures. The venue named for running them is Bitstamp. A perpetual futures contract, in the sense these pages use, is a futures-style position with no expiry. Both accounts state the no-expiry term. This article does not add a settlement clock or a registration label the shared facts do not contain.
Leverage is stated as a ceiling, and the ceiling depends on the asset. Up to 10x applies to bitcoin and to ether. The 3x ceiling applies to SOL, XRP, DOGE, ADA, LINK, and HYPE. "Up to" means the pages describe a maximum, not a requirement that every position use the maximum. This article does not convert those multiples into a gain, a loss, or a suggested position. It also does not rank the assets. The list is the list both pages give.
The stated fee is 0.01 percent per trade, which is one basis point, through the end of 2026. Both accounts include the rate and the end-2026 horizon. They do not, in the facts used here, say what the fee becomes after that horizon, and this article will not guess. They also do not split the fee into a maker and a taker. "Per trade" is the unit they use.
Timing is where the pages part, and they should not be blended. The Block says a launch in the coming months. The Defiant says the rollout began 29 September, with wider access still ahead. Those are different claims about the calendar. One puts the start later than the announcement day and describes it only as the coming months. The other puts a beginning on the announcement day and still says wider access remains ahead. A sentence that picked one clock and ignored the other would misstate the record. A sentence that averaged them into a single launch moment would do the same.
The product in these pages is not the Robinhood Agents product. The September statement is about perpetual futures through Bitstamp. It is not a statement about an agent product, and the two should not be filed as one announcement.
Why it matters
Perpetual futures give a trader a way to take a leveraged view without an expiration date on the contract. That is a definition of the product both pages describe. It is not a recommendation to use it. A larger multiple magnifies the result of a price move in either direction. Saying so describes the ceilings both pages state. It does not tell anyone to open or close a position.
The fee term is 0.01 percent per trade through the end of 2026. That is not a judgment that the product is cheap in some wider sense. Any charge after that horizon is not in the shared facts.
Bitstamp is the operational fact that keeps the story specific. Robinhood is not, on these pages, describing an in-house matching engine with no named partner. It said the U.S. crypto perpetual futures would run through Bitstamp. The pages name Bitstamp and do not, in the facts used here, add a longer chain of firms.
The timing split matters because availability is the question a reader will ask first. If The Block is the account one follows, the launch is still ahead, measured in the coming months from a 29 September statement. If The Defiant is the account one follows, something began on 29 September and wider access is still ahead. Both can be true only in a narrow way: a start for some users, and a later widening. This article will not force that reconciliation. The pages themselves did not write it as one fact. What both do support is the product sheet: no expiry, the two leverage tiers, the basis-point fee through year-end, and Bitstamp.
What's next
What happens after 29 September depends on which account of timing a reader is holding. The Block's version is a launch in the coming months. The Defiant's version is a rollout that began that day, with wider access still ahead. Neither version, in the material used here, lists states, account types, or a final date by which every eligible user is included. Those details are not added here.
The contract terms that do not depend on resolving the calendar are the ones both pages already share. No expiry. Up to 10x on bitcoin and ether. 3x on SOL, XRP, DOGE, ADA, LINK, and HYPE. One basis point per trade through the end of 2026. Bitstamp as the route for the U.S. offering. Not the Robinhood Agents product.
This article does not suggest that anyone trade the contracts. The news is the structure Robinhood described, and the fact that two reports do not share a single start date. For related market context, see Robinhood agents and Hyperliquid policy center.
This article is for information only and is not investment advice.