Alpaca Registers as Futures Commission Merchant with the CFTC and NFA to Advance Launch of Prediction Markets

Alpaca Derivatives LLC has registered with the CFTC as a futures commission merchant and joined the NFA, expanding Alpaca’s regulated brokerage capabilities and laying the groundwork to provide access to prediction-market event contracts, with additional futures products planned pending regulatory approval. Alpaca says its infrastructure will allow financial companies to add new market offerings through existing API-based systems rather than integrating multiple providers, supporting programmable and AI-native financial services. Event contracts enable participants to trade on future real-world outcomes for forecasting, planning, or hedging purposes and have existed in regulated US markets for more than two decades. The announcement comes amid growing interest in prediction markets, with combined monthly volume on the two leading platforms reportedly reaching about $24 billion in April 2026, although Alpaca Derivatives has not yet begun regulated FCM business operations and states that the material is informational rather than investment advice or an offer.

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