Alpaca is a brokerage platform providing access to financial markets through developer-friendly APIs. It offers a full-stack brokerage infrastructure service empowering global fintechs and institutions to build customizable investing applications and platforms. Its Trading API allows programmatic traders, retail investors, hedge funds, and prop firms to develop algorithms that automate trading strategies across multiple asset types including stocks, options, and crypto. Alpaca aims to build a global de facto standard infrastructure for investing with proprietary technology and regulatory setups to open financial services to everyone on the planet.