Alpaca's 3rd Partner Summit in Lisbon is just over a month away, and we want to recognize the sponsors making it possible! 🇵🇹 Thank you to our exclusive prediction market sponsor, @Kalshi, as well as @aquanow, @BlueOceanATS , @BridgeWiseAI, @Broadridge, @citsecurities, @ElefundVC, @Fiscal_ai, @FlowTraders, @GrantThornton, IMC, @LowensteinLLP, @Nasdaq, Nextreg, @NYSE, @Payward, Pierson Ferdinand, Portage, @solana, @Stocktwits, @tribecap, @tradingview, Unbound, @VirtuFinancial, and @VISADIRECT.

INTRODUCING MY NEXT SONG… 🎶Moose Moose Alpaca🎵 🤪 sorry! srsly I’m so proud of the work my sis & I have been doing w/ @fireworkfoundation & am happy to share Camp Firework w/ u on Variety + Lifetime present “Power of Women: The Changemakers @Lifetime tn @ 10p ET AND PT!

We're excited to share that Gate US and @AlpacaHQ are aligning on a shared vision: bringing together AI infrastructure and trading infrastructure to power the next generation of agentic trading. Alpaca has built one of the most agent-friendly trading APIs in the market, and its community has been turning trading ideas into real, working projects — from research workflows to paper trading systems to fully agentic pipelines that connect market data, analysis, and execution logic. Gate AI is building the infrastructure layer for AI agents and developers — including GateRouter, a unified API that gives developers instant access to 25+ mainstream AI models with intelligent routing to optimize cost and performance. Putting these two pieces together points to a clear opportunity: developers building AI trading agents shouldn't have to choose between great execution infrastructure and great AI infrastructure — they should be able to have both, seamlessly. What this means going forward: ✅ Exploring how Gate AI's model routing and agent infrastructure can plug into trading workflows built on APIs like Alpaca's ✅ Supporting builders who want to combine market data + AI reasoning + trade execution into agentic systems ✅ Sharing knowledge and best practices between the Gate AI and Alpaca builder communities ✅ Continuing to lower the cost and complexity of building AI-native trading applications This is the start of a conversation, not the end of one. We'll be sharing more as the technical details take shape — and we'd love to hear from builders in both communities about what you'd want to see. If you're building agentic trading workflows and want to be part of shaping this, reach out — we'd love to hear from you. 👉 Learn more: #AI# #AgenticTrading# #Fintech# #GateAI# #Alpaca#

Tokenization has become one of crypto’s biggest narratives But @iyoshyoshi from @AlpacaHQ says assets shouldn’t be tokenized just for the sake of it Instead, tokenization should serve as part of the broader paradigm shift from traditional finance to onchain financial systems

Plume has joined The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) Digital Assets Solutions Industry Working Group, joining industry leaders such as @CharlesSchwab, @AlpacaHQ, and @Nasdaq, who are also members. The group was created to provide feedback on the DTCC Tokenization Service and facilitate ongoing, robust dialogue that drives widespread digital assets adoption and advances innovation. @The_DTCC provides custody and asset servicing for over $114 trillion in assets and is the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. We look forward to contributing to this initiative and leveraging our expertise in compliance standards to the work the Digital Assets Solutions Industry Working Group is doing. We work with world-class security partners to scan every transaction at the sequencer level, before it's ever included onchain. Through Kimber Transfer Agency, a SEC-registered transfer agent, Plume maintains an official record of ownership for tokenized securities.

Projects Fundraising on RootData (July 13 - July 19) Last week, 20 blockchain companies/projects received funding. 💎 @cryptocom — Cryptocurrency exchange, raised $400M in strategic round by Citadel Securities. 💎 @AlpacaHQ — Developer-first API for stock, options and crypto, raised $135M by @peakxvpartners, @ElefundVC, Opera Tech Ventures & others. 💎 @FlexSuperApp — AI fintech platform, raised $70M in Series B1 by @RyanQualtrics, @halo_fund & others. 💎 @velocityxyz_ — Stablecoin payment company, raised $38M in Series A by @HadickM, @dragonfly_xyz, @cbventures & others. 💎 @Cyclops_inc — Stablecoin and crypto platforms, raised $20M in Series A by @NavaVentures, @cbventures, @CastleIslandVC & others. 💎 @pascaldottrade — Prediction market, raised $9M in Series A led by @usv.