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Wintermute Hit by $160 Million Hack, Fed Raises Interest Rates to Combat Inflation

Read the latest crypto news roundup on the Wintermute $160 million hack, Cardano Vasil upgrade, and more.

Building in DeFi Wonderland ft. Dappio #024

Hear from Justin, co-founder of Dappio. We talk about how he started building in DeFi, what it takes and the difficulties. Plus, what's changed during this crypto winter.

Broker API

Build Your Own Brokerage With FastAPI - Part 3

We explain how to add the ability to fund accounts through automated clearing house (ACH) relationships to the back end.

Crypto

How To Trade Crypto Using Machine Learning

Machine learning empowers traders to accelerate and automate one of the most complex, time-consuming, and challenging aspects of algorithmic trading, providing a competitive advantage beyond rules-based trading.

Crypto

Starbucks Partners With Polygon on Web3 Push, Ethereum Completes The Merge

Starbucks unveils plans to launch an NFT-based loyalty program on Polygon, Ethereum switches to proof-of-stake, and more.

Crypto

Algorithmic Trading with Twitter Sentiment Analysis

Cryptocurrencies are already known to move heavily based on perception, so it could be that there is an edge to monitoring the sentiment on platforms like Twitter.

Crypto

Reddit Sentiment Analysis Trading Strategy

By gaining a better quantitative understanding of how communities feel about crypto and the crypto markets, algo traders can gain an edge over other traders.

Events at Alpaca

Blockchain and Recent Developments #023

We interviewed Michelle, co-founder of Governance Research Institute, and discuss how blockchain works, where blockchain is at right now and where it's going.

Broker API

Get Started with Local Currency Trading API for App Localization

In this learn article, we cover the features and behaviors of Local Currency Trading for Alpaca Broker API.

Crypto

Algorithmic Trading With TWAP and VWAP Using Alpaca

Calculate VWAP and TWAP indicators and learn how to create a simple algorithmic trading bot that makes buy and sell decisions based on VWAP.

Crypto

Automated Crypto Scalping with Alpaca

To execute this strategy successfully, we are building an algorithmic trading bot that will try to capture small profits trading ETH/USD.

Broker API

Build Your Own Brokerage With FastAPI - Part 2

In part two of the series, we build out the endpoints for brokerage account signup and query for a brokerage account by ID.

Broker API

Build Your Own Brokerage With FastAPI - Part 1

Learn how to use Alpaca-py to create your own brokerage using Alpaca Broker API.

Crypto

Tornado Cash Blacklisted, U.S. Inflation Cools to 8.5%

OFAC blacklisted crypto mixing service Tornado Cash and all of its Ethereum addresses. Meanwhile, US inflation dropped to 8.5% in July, partly due to the decrease in energy prices.

Crypto

On-Chain Metric Investing Strategy with Glassnode API

Integrate on-chain metrics into algorithmic trading using Glassnode API to fetch on-chain metric data, perform calculations on that data, and implement trading with Alpaca’s APIs.

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Where Bitcoin is Headed, Liquidation Engines, and High Interest Rates #022

In this episode of Fintech Underground, we chat with Julian Figueroa, owner of YouTube channel Kinetic Finance. We discuss the fall of Bitcoin and where it's going, liquidation engines, and high interest rates.

Broker API

How to Get Started with Rebalancing API

Alpaca's Rebalancing API offers investment advisors a way to easily create investment portfolios that are automatically updated to the specified cash, stock symbol percentage weights, rebalance conditions, and triggers selected.

Broker API

Alpaca Broker API Plans and Features Explained — Webinar Recap

In this webinar, we explore three new Broker API plans and how to choose the best plan for your needs.

Crypto

Algo-trading Bitcoin with Bollinger Bands and RSI

Learn how to build an algo-trading bot that uses Bollinger Bands and RSI as indicators to trade Bitcoin on an hourly time frame.