January 2022 Summaries

The partnership between Alpaca and Benzinga aims to enhance user experience by providing real-time news and data endpoints, enabling users to make informed investment decisions without leaving their favorite platform. The integration with Benzinga's industry-leading data will provide a comprehensive feature set for Broker API partners, Trading API users, and end-users, offering breaking stories, corporate actions, analyst ratings, and more. Alpaca customers can benefit from flexible, developer-friendly APIs to easily integrate financial news and company logos into their fintech apps. The partnership is expected to complement Alpaca's offerings and help investors make actionable decisions.

The Market Data API v1 has been deprecated and will officially sunset on March 15, 2022. To continue providing the best experience for users, support for Market Data API v2 is being prioritized, offering two plans: Free and Unlimited. Customers are required to update any existing systems using Market Data API v1 endpoints, as client libraries will no longer support it after the sunset date. After March 15, 2022, systems using v1 endpoints will be removed from the documentation and will cease to function. The Paper Trading API is offered by AlpacaDB, Inc. for use without real money or transaction in real securities, providing a risk-free environment for testing and practice.

We reflected on the milestones that shaped Alpaca in 2021, including launching three new products, expanding partnerships with companies like Snap Inc. and TradingView, introducing a new order management system, growing our community to over 10,000 members, raising $50M in Series B funding, and hiring 112 new employees across 20 countries. These achievements demonstrate Alpaca's growth and commitment to providing the best experience possible for its users.