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Gate US officially announced that Gate AI and Alpaca will collaborate on the development vision of Agentic Trading, promoting the integration of AI infrastructure and trading system capabilities to provide underlying support for the next generation of intelligent trading applications.Alpaca has built a trading API that is developer and AI Agent friendly, with its community continuously transforming trading ideas into actual projects, covering research processes, simulated trading systems, and Agentic workflows that connect market data, analysis, and execution logic. Gate AI focuses on building an infrastructure layer for AI Agents and developers, where the GateRouter unified API helps developers quickly access over 25 mainstream AI models and balances cost and performance through intelligent routing.Both Gate AI and Alpaca agree that AI trading Agent developers should not have to choose between high-quality trading execution infrastructure and AI infrastructure, but should be able to obtain support for both in a smoother manner. Next, Gate AI will explore how its model routing and Agent infrastructure can connect to trading workflows built on APIs like Alpaca, supporting developers in integrating market data, AI reasoning, and trading execution into Agentic systems.Gate AI and Alpaca also plan to promote knowledge sharing and best practice exchanges between their developer communities, continuously lowering the development threshold and complexity of AI-native trading applications. Gate AI and Alpaca will continue to explore collaborative efforts around the construction of the Agentic Trading ecosystem, providing foundational support for developers to build more efficient and scalable next-generation intelligent trading applications.

According to a report by businesswire, AI and tokenized financial infrastructure Alpaca announced the completion of a new round of financing totaling $135 million, led by Peak XV, with follow-on investments from Elefund, BNP Paribas's venture capital arm Opera Tech Ventures, and Unbound among others. To date, its total financing has reached $435 million.The new funds will be used to accelerate the construction of its AI-native brokerage infrastructure and API-first prime brokerage business, helping fintech companies, banks, brokerages, wealth management institutions, and crypto financial platforms to build investment products in both traditional and on-chain markets, and to connect with more global crypto exchanges, asset tokenization platforms, and financial institutions.

According to official disclosures from Binance, Alpaca is not only the clearing broker for its U.S. stock business, but Binance also holds a minority stake in Alpaca. According to the agreement, Binance will receive 50% of Alpaca's payment for order flow (PFOF) and 65% of the remaining profits from user stock lending, after deducting user interest.Binance's recently launched U.S. stock business adopts a "introducing broker + clearing broker" model, with Nest Trading responsible for order referrals and Alpaca responsible for trade execution, clearing, settlement, and asset custody. Alpaca Securities LLC is a registered broker-dealer with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and is also a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC), holding approximately 94% of the tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs market share.

Gate announced a strategic partnership with Alpaca, a global leader in brokerage infrastructure services, to soon launch stock and ETF trading services for Gate users, bridging the investment channel between digital assets and traditional financial markets. Leveraging Gate's global digital asset ecosystem and Alpaca's brokerage infrastructure and market access capabilities, both parties will work together to create a more convenient and efficient multi-asset investment experience. Through this collaboration, Gate will introduce stock trading services, providing users with trading opportunities for over 10,000 stocks and ETFs covering major U.S. securities markets, including assets listed on the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. At the same time, the platform will support fractional share trading starting from as low as $1, offering users a more diversified global asset allocation choice.Gate founder and CEO Dr. Han stated that the financial system is evolving towards greater integration and connectivity. As the connection between digital assets and traditional financial markets continues to strengthen, the demand for efficient access to diverse investment opportunities is growing. By collaborating with Alpaca, Gate will provide users seamless access to real stock market investments while maintaining the convenience and efficiency of the digital asset platform. We believe that multi-asset investment access will become an important component of the next generation of global financial services. In the future, Gate will continue to explore new models connecting digital assets and traditional finance with Alpaca, enhancing global market access capabilities and jointly promoting the development of a more open, efficient, and interconnected multi-asset investment ecosystem.

Bitget's compliant RWA issuance platform Reality announced a partnership with the U.S. registered brokerage and self-clearing agency Alpaca. According to the cooperation details, Alpaca will provide brokerage infrastructure support for Reality, assisting it in accessing U.S. stocks and ETF tokenized products within a regulated market framework, covering key aspects such as clearing, custody, and trade execution.Founded in 2015, Alpaca is a developer-first brokerage infrastructure company, with Alpaca Clearing being a FINRA registered broker-dealer and SIPC member, focusing on the custody and clearing of underlying assets. Through this partnership, Reality will further enhance its underlying infrastructure capabilities for tokenized U.S. stocks and ETF products, providing a more standardized and transparent access method for eligible global users.Bitget CEO Gracy Chen stated that Reality is a key part of Bitget UEX's panoramic exchange strategy, aiming to connect traditional financial assets with on-chain infrastructure in a more pragmatic way. Alpaca co-founder and CEO Yoshi Yokokawa expressed his pleasure in partnering with Reality to jointly promote the development of tokenized stock infrastructure, further enhancing the accessibility of global financial services.

According to Fortune, financial technology infrastructure provider Alpaca announced the completion of a $150 million Series D funding round, with a valuation of $1.15 billion. This round was led by Drive Capital, with participation from Citadel Securities, cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, and the venture capital arm of BNP Paribas. As part of the funding, Alpaca also secured a $40 million credit facility.The software created by Alpaca enables companies to more easily offer trading services for stocks, ETFs, cryptocurrencies, and other financial instruments. Co-founder and CEO Yoshi Yokokawa stated that as the lines between traditional finance and the crypto space blur, platforms are integrating services, and Alpaca's annual recurring revenue has exceeded $100 million.

ChainCatcher message, according to the Web3 asset data platform RootData X tracking data, in the past 7 days, the lending protocol Alpaca Finance that allows leveraged mining has been the project with the most unfollows from X (Twitter) top figures. The newly unfollowed influential figure from this project includes the well-known KOL 0xSun(@0xSunNFT).In addition, the project with the most unfollows from X top figures also includes FODL.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, Alpaca Finance announced that it will gradually terminate all product operations, planning to stop opening new positions in all liquidity pools in the first week of June 2025, and will automatically close all remaining active positions by June 30.Previous report stated that after Binance delisted its ALPACA token in April, the token's liquidity and capital deployment capabilities were severely restricted. Coupled with the intensified competition in the current DeFi space, the decision to shut down was ultimately made. The team stated that this decision was made after careful internal evaluation, aiming to ensure the safe and orderly exit of user assets. Binance had not previously specified the reasons for the delisting, but such decisions are typically based on a combination of factors including project progress, liquidity, and team commitment.Coingecko data shows that the price of the ALPACA token has dropped by 26.2% in the last 24 hours.

ChainCatcher news, according to Coinglass data, in the past 4 hours, ALPACA liquidated 20.9 million USD, with long positions liquidating 6.89 million USD and short positions liquidating 14 million USD, mainly short positions. Meanwhile, the liquidation volume for ETH in the past 4 hours was 7.14 million USD.

ChainCatcher news, according to Binance market data, the spot price of ALPACA has plummeted, dropping over 50% in 5 minutes, once falling to $0.50, and has now risen to $0.71.

ChainCatcher message, Binance ALPACA contract funding rate has reached the maximum limit of 4%.It is reported that Binance will automatically liquidate the perpetual contract for ALPACA tokens at 5 PM on April 30, and after the liquidation, the ALPACA/USDT perpetual contract trading pair will be removed.

ChainCatcher message, the current ALPACA perpetual contract price on the Binance platform has risen over 25% in the last 5 minutes, now falling back to $1.3683.During the same period, the ALPACA spot price was $1.22, showing a significant price difference.

ChainCatcher news, according to official data, the funding rate for ALPACA contracts on the Binance platform has surged to 4%, with a settlement period of 1 hour and an expected daily interest rate of 96%.

ChainCatcher news, according to market data from RootData, the Alpaca Finance token (ALPACA) has increased by 70.43% in the last 24 hours, currently priced at $0.430.According to the Web3 asset data platform RootData, Alpaca Finance is a lending protocol that allows leveraged mining on the BNB Chain and Fantom. It helps lenders earn secure and stable returns while providing borrowers with under-collateralized loans for leveraged yield farming positions, significantly increasing their principal and the resulting profits.

According to GMGN market data, ALPACA briefly fell below $0.085, currently quoted at $0.0912, with a 24-hour decline of 55.91%.

ChainCatcher message, Binance Futures will adjust the funding fee rate cap for the ALPACAUSDTU perpetual contract to +4.00%/-4.00% on April 29, 2025, at 18:00 (Beijing Time).