Robinhood Markets introduced its first two agentic products during a May 27 presentation at the Bernstein conference. The announcements cover agentic trading and agentic commerce.
Chief Financial Officer Shiv Verma discussed the new offerings at the Bernstein 42nd Annual Strategic Decisions Conference. He noted that the company had teased a series of agentic products at its last earnings call and delivered the initial two items outside the main conference sessions.
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Robinhood opened the public mainnet for its Arbitrum-based layer-2 blockchain on Wednesday, enabling tokenized stock trading and new decentralized finance products.
Coinbase introduced a new platform on Wednesday that connects artificial intelligence assistants to user accounts for automated crypto trading and payments.
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Swap Commerce has unveiled the world's first agentic storefront, an AI-powered shopping platform that combines scrolling discovery with conversational interactions. The announcement came during the Vogue Business Global Summit at the Château de Chantilly. Over 20 brands are partnering on the launch, including Simkhai, Retrofit, Studio Nicholson, and Manors Golf.
John Hoffman, the newly appointed head of portfolio products at Ondo Finance, compared the rise of tokenized assets to the early stages of the exchange-traded fund industry. He argued that the convergence of blockchain and artificial intelligence will drive the next phase of growth in capital markets.
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Morgan Stanley has started offering clients the ability to trade cryptocurrencies directly inside E*Trade brokerage accounts, executing a partnership announced last September.
Charles Schwab is partnering with Cboe Global Markets to offer yes-or-no options contracts on the S&P 500. The move marks the brokerage's entry into prediction markets, with rollout expected in the coming months.