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Coinbase and Others Enter the NFT Space and Gitlab Raises Over $800 Million in IPO

On Tuesday, Coinbase (COIN) announced that it has plans to start a peer to peer NFT marketplace on its platform.

Alpaca Crypto Beta Launch Q&A

We recently hosted a Crypto Beta Launch AMA session featuring CEO Yoshi Yokokawa, CTO Hitoshi Harada, and Vice President Tarun Ajwani.

Community Examples

Build a Dollar Cost Averaging (DCA) Service with Cloudflare Workers and the Alpaca API

Set up dollar cost averaging (DCA) purchases of traditional stocks and ETFs using the Alpaca API.

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Bitcoin Breaks $50k and US Nonfarm Payrolls Are Up 194k

Bitcoin and Etherium staged strong rallies this week. BTC was up over 15% from Sunday’s close through Wednesday’s high.

Community Examples

How to Build a Recurring Investment Bot in Trellis

Trellis is a platform where anyone can build a trading bot in under five minutes without code.

Market News

Netflix Diversifies into Gaming and Microsoft Teams Up with Epic Games

Goodbye, September! Hello October and pumpkin spiced everything. So far for 2021, September seems to be the worst performing month with the S&P 500 down 4.7% from the close on August 31, 2021.

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Martin Sokk from Lightyear #017

In Episode 17 of Fintech Underground by Alpaca, we interviewed Martin Sokk. As the CEO and Co-founder of Lightyear, Martin discusses his product expansion strategy across Europe, differences between the US and European markets, and more.

How To Improve Your AI-Based Python Trading System: The Alpaca Broker

Explore the possibilities with a commission-free stock trading API.

Broker API

Try Our Postman Workspace for Alpaca APIs

Learn how to use our public Postman workspace to quickly and easily get started with Alpaca APIs.

Market News

Evergrande Misses Payment Deadline and the Fed Prepares to Reverse Pandemic Stimulus Programs

China Evergrande, the most indebted real estate company in the world, spooks the global markets.

Broker API

Porting Passiv to Alpaca: a Dev’s Perspective

Alpaca is the first US brokerage supported by Passiv, and it’s not an accident.

Community Examples

LiuAlgoTrader Internals & Performance Tuning

How to monitor the LiuAlgoTrader framework, strategy performance, and tools to tune the code

Market News

Epic Games Pays Apple $6 Million and Amazon Kicks off Hiring Spree

Apple is not deemed a monopoly in the court ruling but must allow app developers to point to alternate payment options through buttons, external links, or other calls to action alongside their iOS apps.

Use Cases

Google Spreadsheet to Manage Your Stocks Using API

Algo-trade with only a Google spreadsheet! See how to build a portfolio management tool incorporating Alpaca Market Data v2

Community Examples

Simple Algo Trading with Alpaca and Streak

Learn how to deploy your Streak algorithm straight to Alpaca for simple automated trading.

Market News

El Salvador Adopts Bitcoin as Currency and China Suspends Approval for New Online Games

Bitcoin is now legal tender in El Salvador and China looks to curb gaming addiction among minors.

Market News

Ethereum Surges In Crypto Bull Run, OPEC+ Sticks With Gradual Oil Output Increase

Cardano and Solana were some of the big crypto winners of August. Over the past week or so, Ethereum has gotten in on the action and started to break out as well.

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Tobias Heaslip from Trading.TV #016

In Episode 16 of Fintech Underground by Alpaca, we interviewed Tobias Heaslip. As the CEO and Founder of Trading.TV, Tobias discusses creator-led social investing, shoppable live streams, and how he started TTV as a solo founder.

Market News

SEC Brings The Hammer and Jackson Hole Goes Virtual Due to Delta

Markets are at an all time high before Jerome Powell’s speech today at Jackson Hole. Many Fed watchers believe that the virulent delta variant of Covid 19 will tie the Fed’s hands and they will not begin to taper by the end of the year.