Alpaca Crypto expands access to US states with tradeable coins

By Edlyn Cardoza

Alpaca, API-first crypto and stock financial services company, recently announced that Alpaca Crypto has enabled access to users across 49 US states and now offers over 20 tradeable coins.

The Company is excited to announce that Alpaca Crypto API now offers over 20 coins and is available to users in 49 U.S. states, excluding New York and select international jurisdictions. Through integration with FTX US, Alpaca Crypto API has added Solana, Sushi, Dai, Shiba Inu, Dogecoin, Maker, Matic, and over a dozen other new coins to its existing coins list. The Company is available for retail traders, investing apps, and embedded services built on the Alpaca APIs.

“It is phenomenal for Alpaca Crypto to integrate with FTX, who is a leading exchange in today’s crypto world. As Web3 and crypto are becoming an important financial infrastructure, Alpaca is committed to making a big impact in the industry and to opening financial services to everyone on the planet,” said Hitoshi Harada, Co-founder & CPO, Alpaca. “Today’s announcement is one of the big steps we’re taking in Alpaca’s API platform roadmap.”

Alpaca’s developer-first Broker API now enables FinTechs worldwide the ability to build and launch their crypto trading app, unified crypto and stock trading platform, or embedded crypto services from start to finish. With the launch of Alpaca Broker API in 2021, Alpaca has helped enable over 100 FinTech companies worldwide and has established FinTech partnerships across Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, and Latin America.

“FTX’s white-label crypto-as-a-service platform exists to help more companies bring crypto infrastructure to their products and services,” said FTX Head of Engineering Nishad Singh. “We’re excited to power Alpaca’s new crypto offering as they bring this new world of financial services to their customers.”