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Since launching @AlpacaHQ Trading API in 2018, lots happened in fintech, and there is always a theme that a pendulum swinging back and forth between unbundling and bundling. And now, total financial services paradigm shift is a part of scope with tokenization and agent-first. Lots of fun chat with @gazza_jenks at @TheBlockCo 🤩😎
THE STARTING BLOCK:
@AlpacaHQ co-founder @iyoshyoshi joined @gazza_jenks in the Hot Seat this week to chat about their recent $435M raise.
0:00 - Intro & Welcome
1:30 - Alpaca's Origin Story
4:45 - The AWS of Finance Concept
8:20 - The 94% Statistic
11:00 - Centralization Risk & Counterparty Risk
15:30 - AI Agents & 4X Growth
19:45 - Prime Brokerage Ambitions
22:30 - Everything App Theory
26:00 - Global Expansion Strategy
29:15 - Regulatory Landscape & Market Structure Bill
31:00 - Closing Remarks
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Event contracts are coming to @AlpacaHQ via a new @Kalshi partnership.
CEO @iyoshyoshi: "we're in the very early innings" of a whole new asset class.
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another huge win/partner for @AlpacaHQ
Crypto.com, the multi-asset platform serving over 150 million customers globally, has launched Tokenized Stocks, advancing its efforts to become a multi-asset app.
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Business Accounts are now available for Alpaca’s broker partners, providing you with the infrastructure to onboard business entities and authorized signers.
With the launch, partners can manage the business onboarding workflow through APIs:
✅ API-native workflow designed to streamline traditional document collection and onboarding
✅ Lifecycle management, including automatically triggered review flows for any changes to business records
✅ Automation designed to support scalable onboarding while reducing manual intervention
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Crypto.com, the multi-asset platform serving over 150 million customers globally, has launched Tokenized Stocks, advancing its efforts to become a multi-asset app.
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Excited to be on the program from 8:45am ET 🦙⚡️😎
Today on The Starting Block.
We've got Luke Deans from @Bitwise_Europe to give us a timely market update.
Then @AlpacaHQ co-founder/CEO @iyoshyoshi jumps in the Hot Seat to chat about Alpaca's $435M raise and the RWA tokenization wave taking over TradFi.
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Today on The Starting Block.
We've got Luke Deans from @Bitwise_Europe to give us a timely market update.
Then @AlpacaHQ co-founder/CEO @iyoshyoshi jumps in the Hot Seat to chat about Alpaca's $435M raise and the RWA tokenization wave taking over TradFi.
nitter.net/i/broadcasts/1qKDzzZyP…
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📹 @AlpacaHQ just raised $135 million, bringing total financing to $435 million.
@iyoshyoshi tells @RemyBlaireNews two paradigm shifts are driving the growth: AI and agents reshaping how people interact with financial markets, and tokenization as assets move on chain.
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Yoshi Yokokawa says Alpaca is quietly behind Kraken, Ondo, and Binance's tokenized-equity efforts, and now the DTCC:
"Everyone agrees on the end state: everything issued natively onchain, every transaction recorded onchain. Nobody disagrees. The real question is the multiple paths to get there."
"That's what DTCC has been proactive about, steadily moving actions onchain to create more flexibility and faster money movement, with a lot of financial institutions in the project."
"We're fortunate to be behind the scenes for multiple tokenized equity efforts, publicly, Kraken, Ondo, Binance. That experience across chains and wallets is what's made the last six months of conversations with DTCC so fruitful."
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Being global 🌎🌍🌏 means being local everywhere 🇩🇪🇪🇺, more and more to come shortly🤩🦙⚡️💪
German equities are now live for broker partners through Alpaca’s Broker API! 🎉
Building for a global customer base means building global market access. We now connect directly to @boersefrankfurt Xetra, the primary electronic trading venue of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
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Always having fun chatting with buddies at @therollupco 👯♂️💪🙏⚡️
Yoshi Yokokawa on the $435M raise, and the two trends he says are pushing the business exponentially:
"Tokenization just continues to expand. You saw the DTCC do the demo of the whole DTCC token, we're a big part of it. The whole industry is accelerating toward onchain finance."
"The second is AI and agents. I know we're all tired of hearing the words, but the changes are real. People are interacting with financial markets in a different way, and as API-first infrastructure, a lot of new participants are coming in through us."
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Digital asset and tokenization convos in 🇯🇵 embassy in 🇺🇸 representing @AlpacaHQ 🦙!!
Our global work continues to grow. We’re honored to launch @DigitalChamber’s Global Conference Series with the @JapanEmbDC .
Looking forward to speaking with Yoshi Yokokawa (@iyoshyoshi) of @AlpacaHQ and Dean C. Sovolos of @B2C2Group.to discuss the next era of global digital financial infrastructure. 🇺🇸🇯🇵
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Our Co-Founder and CEO, @iyoshyoshi, is live at 2:00 PM ET with @therollupco. Watch the interview below.
Happy Tuesday from the Tokenization Tower.
Bitcoin showing the stocks to crypto rotation in real time, love to see it.
Some decent earnings reports coming out today as well.
CLARITY is in maximum crunch time right now, we’ll have some updates from yesterday’s session as well.
Market & portfolio adjustments too.
On the news side:
Alpaca's fresh off a $435M raise between equity and debt, and their CEO's joining today, perfect timing given everyone's watching where that capital goes next.
NVDA's onchain pool on Robinhood Chain just crossed $3.5M in daily volume too.
Meme and RWA barbell?
Great show today, the line-up is in:
1:00PM ET Meredith Hannon - @WisdomTreePrime
2:00PM ET @iyoshyoshi - @AlpacaHQ
2:30PM ET @PunterJeff - @Strive
See you on the show.
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Thank you 🙏 to our users 🕺, friends 👯, partners 🤩, investors 🤓, and to ourselves aka @AlpacaHQ members 🦙, for all the support, encouragement, patience, trust, and belief in much more to come ⚡. We're extremely grateful that we secured a massive amount of the financing from so many people that I have admired for a long time, and excited that we'll be pushing more things w/ faster pace even more 🚅 🚀 @peakxvpartners @ElefundVC @Payward Opera Tech Ventures (@BNPParibas ) @BMO 💪💪 💪
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Thank you for allowing us to be partners in your journey @iyoshyoshi … we’re super excited by the amazing capital markets infrastructure business you’re building 🚀
Congratulations to my partner @aakash_kpr on leading the new round in @AlpacaHQ @peakxvpartners
We are grateful to announce a $135 million raise led by @peakxvpartners, with major participation from @ElefundVC. Additional new and returning investors include Opera Tech Ventures, the venture capital arm of BNP Paribas Group, and Unbound 🚀
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Tokenization is a part of the financial services industry shift🏦. manual☝️ -> computerized🦾 -> on-chain⚡️ Humbled to play a foundational role in this massive industry paradigm shift @AlpacaHQ 🦙🙏
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.@iyoshyoshi and team @AlpacaHQ are chasing one of the largest TAMs in fintech by building the gateway into global financial markets.
Alpaca has been at the forefront of all innovation in markets with agentic trading, tokenisation, on-chain infra etc. No other company matches the product velocity and developer (+ enterprise) adoption that Alpaca has cracked. Super pumped about this one! @peakxvpartners @sjs_day1
We are grateful to announce a $135 million raise led by @peakxvpartners, with major participation from @ElefundVC. Additional new and returning investors include Opera Tech Ventures, the venture capital arm of BNP Paribas Group, and Unbound 🚀
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Let's goooooo @iyoshyoshi @umitanuki
We are grateful to announce a $135 million raise led by @peakxvpartners, with major participation from @ElefundVC. Additional new and returning investors include Opera Tech Ventures, the venture capital arm of BNP Paribas Group, and Unbound 🚀
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Infrastructure wins by staying boring long enough to become obvious. Proud Elefund deepened its participation. @AlpacaHQ 🔥
Alpaca built the rails underneath global investing — and just showed what happens when years of unglamorous work compounds.
Congrats to @iyoshyoshi, @umitanuki, and the rest of this outstanding team on raising a $135M round alongside $300M in debt financing.
What we've always respected about Yoshi and the Alpaca team is the unglamorous conviction it takes to go market-by-market: US, Japan, now India's GIFT City, the UK, and passporting across all 30 EEA countries - building the clearing, and doing the plumbing no one sees. They didn't chase the AI or tokenization trend; they spent years building the regulated rails underneath both, and the road ahead is exactly the one they've been paving.
At Elefund, we're proud to have deepened our participation this round and excited to keep supporting the team as they scale. The hardest part of infrastructure is staying boring long enough to become obvious. Onward. 🚀
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