June 2022 Summaries

Logo API for Alpaca Broker API offers real-time logos of 20+ supported crypto coins and popular stock symbols in PNG format with a resolution of 300x300 pixels. The API allows users to easily track, maintain, and retrieve up-to-date images, enhancing the app user interface with visually recognizable company or asset logos next to relevant data. Logo API is available as an add-on product feature for both Essential and Core plans, requiring additional cost, and offers unlimited sandbox testing via the Alpaca Broker API dashboard, 24/7 global support, and easy integration with a simple URL.

Alpaca Connect Marketplace is a new feature that allows users to discover and integrate apps built by developers and companies they know, with their Alpaca account, in just a few clicks. The marketplace offers secure OAuth integration, allowing for read-only or read/write access to user accounts, depending on the app's functionality. Users can easily discover new apps directly from Alpaca's web dashboard, connect to apps that meet their trading needs, and quickly integrate with apps in just a few clicks. This feature is part of Alpaca's efforts to provide a more seamless trading experience and give users deeper insights into the market. The marketplace is currently live as a beta launch, with eight apps available for integration, including TradingView, Blueshift, and Arcade Trader.

The MT5 Omni Gateway for Alpaca Broker API offers a turnkey solution that enables customers to trade U.S stocks directly in MetaTrader 5 via a secure Omnibus gateway, connecting to Broker API. This setup allows broker-dealers to manage customer accounting and trading flow, while keeping end-customer information confidential. The platform supports fractional and whole share trading, with seamless back-office operations and infrastructure support, making it an attractive option for established or growing platforms looking to facilitate U.S stock trading through MT5. Alpaca Securities LLC provides securities brokerage services, and MetaQuotes Ltd is a software development company that does not provide investment or brokerage services, maintaining their independence from each other.

Alpaca is excited to announce its presence at Consensus 2022, the largest and longest-running crypto festival in the world, where it will provide expert guidance on building scalable trading products while staying compliant, embedding cryptocurrency into apps, and more. The company has partnered with several organizations, including Alpacadabraz, KuCoin Community Chain, KuCoin Labs, and KuCoin Ventures, to present a unique experience called Real Alpaca Party, which includes petting real alpacas and learning about Web3 growth and infrastructure. Alpaca has also made significant announcements, including the release of its Crypto API and extended support for over 20 cryptocurrencies, offering developer-friendly APIs and scalable infrastructure for crypto and stock trading.

The Alpaca API has four SDKs available for Python, TypeScript/JS, C#/.NET, and Go, with the most recent updates shipped through these SDKs. The last update was made to the CSharp SDK in the past month. To use the latest functionality, developers can install the corresponding SDK using pip3, npm, dotnet add package Alpaca.Markets, or go get -u github.com/alpacahq/alpaca-trade-api-go/v2/alpaca. The recent update includes fixes to several methods, including ListExchangesAsync, ListTradeConditionsAsync, and ListQuoteConditionsAsync, which now work correctly when provided with the correct authentication data.