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Excited to share that our Co-Founder and CEO Yoshi Yokokawa will be speaking at Money20/20 USA in Las Vegas in October alongside other fintech leaders shaping the future of finance. Stay tuned for more details closer to the event. We hope to see you there!

AI-driven tools are increasingly shaping how developers and market participants interact with financial markets. At Alpaca, we’re seeing continued growth in API-based trading activity. In Q1 2026: ✅ API usage increased nearly 4x from Q4 2025 ✅ Monthly growth rates reached ~30%, compared to single digit growth in Q4 2025 As more investors look to connect AI to financial markets, we’ve been designing tools like Alpaca’s new CLI and enhanced MCP Server V2 to help provide AI-native access to our trading infrastructure with risk controls and token efficiency at its core. “APIs once gave developers direct access to financial markets. AI is now broadening that access to a much larger group of users “People no longer need to build everything from scratch in code to express trading logic and interact with financial systems. As AI becomes the front door, APIs become even more important as the foundation underneath,” said Yoshi Yokokawa, Co-Founder and CEO of Alpaca. Read the full announcement below.

The Alpaca team will be at Money20/20 Europe in full force! 🇳🇱 Our sales and leadership team, including Karan S., Robert Goan, Candace Gawler, and Stefano Asciana will be meeting with fintechs, brokerages, and infrastructure partners from across Europe to discuss global market access and the future of financial services. If you’re attending, we’d love to connect.

“We’re like the ‘AWS of finance.’” In an interview with NewsPicks, Yoshi Yokokawa, our Co-Founder and CEO, discusses how Alpaca is building brokerage infrastructure for the next generation of financial services. The conversation covered:  1️⃣ Why Alpaca operates as a fully licensed brokerage and custodian specialized in API connectivity 2️⃣ How Alpaca’s broker clearing model supports financial institutions and fintech companies 3️⃣ Why developer-first connectivity is central to Alpaca’s infrastructure approach 4️⃣ How Alpaca is expanding across more than 40 countries through regional partnerships 5️⃣ Why Yoshi sees on-chain systems as the next major shift in financial infrastructure Read the full interview in the comments.

We’ve expanded our crypto offering with 11 additional digital assets, now available via both our Broker API and Trading API. With this expansion, partners can: ✅ Expand asset coverage within the same API infrastructure ✅ Support 24/7 trading with Market, Limit, and Stop Limit orders ✅ Access a larger universe of digital assets including Hyperliquid (HYPE), Arbitrum (ARB), and Ondo (ONDO), and more All assets are integrated into existing endpoints for asset discovery, order placement, and funding workflows. Additionally, assets are reviewed through a cross-functional process across compliance, legal, and operational considerations, providing additional support for managing asset risk frameworks. Read more in the comments below.

Last month, the Alpaca team co-hosted a cocktail reception with the Hedge Fund Association during GAIM Ops Cayman 🇰🇾 Our team, including Tarun Ajwani, Tony Lee, CFA, and Melek Kartal, MBA, connected with hedge fund leaders, operators, and financial service providers about institutional investing and the infrastructure supporting global scale. Conversations throughout the evening focused on: ✅ Market access and institutional infrastructure ✅ Operational complexity across global markets ✅ Scaling investment platforms internationally ✅ The evolving needs of hedge funds and financial institutions Thank you to the Hedge Fund Association, and everyone who joined us throughout the evening.

US IPO access is now available via Alpaca’s Broker API! 🚀  Partners can now provide users with early access to the primary market, enabling them to: ✅ Potentially capture growth from a resurgent market that saw 216 US companies go public in 2025, and raised over $47.4B ✅ Integrate seamlessly with existing equity workflows, providing a standardized experience for them and the end user ✅ Differentiate with a modernized offering that can help stand out from competitors "As US IPO volumes return to levels not seen in years, global investors are signaling a clear shift in appetite. But they aren't just looking for another entry point into the S&P 500 or a broad-market ETF. They are demanding a seat at the table for the market’s primary formation,” said Hitoshi Harada, Co-Founder, CPO, and CTO of Alpaca. “By expanding our access to US IPOs, we are meeting the needs of the modern international investor who views the US as an ecosystem to be entered at its earliest public inception." Read the full announcement below.

Very honored to join Frank Chaparro on The Crypto Tape🎙️. I’ve been following Frank for a while, so it honestly feels a bit surreal to be sitting there laughing hard 🤣, and of course, discussing tokenization, APIs, AI, and how financial services infrastructure is evolving underneath all of this fast movement. It feels like the work we’ve been quietly building over the years at Alpaca is starting to get recognized in a more meaningful way by people who deeply understand the industry and where things may be heading longer term 🙏 . I feel that it is important to zoom out 🧘♀️, especially in moments where everything suddenly feels like it’s moving extremely fast 🚅. Tokenization, AI agents, stablecoins… there is so much momentum around all of it every single day. And in environments like this, I think it becomes even more important to think structurally and longer term about what is actually changing underneath (and more importantly, what is NOT changing) so that we can focus on executing towards where things may ultimately lead 🪷. Really appreciated the conversation with Frank 👯 . https://lnkd.in/eSKuKaMW

Retirement, reimagined: Introducing API-enabled IRA accounts with Alpaca 🎉 Our new Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs), available to US tax residents, bring the power of algorithmic trading and automation with a developer-first API platform that enables you to build and run strategies while managing your portfolio in a tax-advantaged account structure. With our IRA accounts, you can: ✅ Run your trading bots, scripts, or strategies using API access, similar to a taxable account. ✅ Manage both your taxable and retirement portfolios side by side from a single dashboard ✅ Easily transfer your existing IRA accounts with our Portfolio Transfer feature Learn more about opening an IRA account with Alpaca below.

Our President of Southeast Asia, Rohit Mulani, is speaking at InnovAsia 2026 in Singapore. 🇸🇬 He will be joining a panel on “Preparing for 23/5 Trading: Operational Readiness and Key Practical Considerations.” The discussion will focus on how market participants are preparing for extended trading, including operational readiness, and the infrastructure needed to support broader access to US markets. If you’re attending, make sure to check out the panel.