Bybit has launched AI Subaccounts, a dedicated account type allowing AI trading bots to operate in isolated environments separate from users’ main funds. The crypto exchange is targeting developers and traders in the Middle East and North Africa with this feature, which restricts bot activity to segregated accounts with no access to primary holdings. Users can set leverage caps, maximum allocation limits, and withdrawal restrictions while maintaining read-only oversight of automated trades through an API-only access layer.
The move follows a broader industry trend that accelerated through early 2026, with at least ten retail brokers and platform providers integrating AI agents into live client accounts, according to FM Intelligence research. Interactive Brokers, Robinhood, eToro, and ThinkMarkets have already deployed similar walled-off structures, most using Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol as the underlying infrastructure. Nine of ten tracked implementations featured Anthropic’s Claude model.
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Bybit’s AI Subaccount offering essentially replicates risk controls already standard among retail brokers, signaling that segregated agent trading is becoming table stakes rather than competitive differentiation across both crypto and traditional markets.
Source: Finance Magnates