Alpaca raises $135M to scale tokenized U.S. equities infrastructure
The brokerage already clears or custodies about 94% of tokenized U.S. stocks, making the raise a bid to own the settlement layer before Coinbase and Kraken close in.
5 stories mentioning it. Newest first.
The brokerage already clears or custodies about 94% of tokenized U.S. stocks, making the raise a bid to own the settlement layer before Coinbase and Kraken close in.
86 validators are now running the patched Alpenglow build on a community cluster restart — the upgrade Yakovenko says validates Solana's core architecture thesis.
Yakovenko framed the release — already approved by 98% of validators — as a shift from raw throughput to consistency and sub-second finality, the layer financial apps actually need to bet on.
If mainnet lands next quarter as Yakovenko flagged at Consensus Miami, finality drops from seconds to near real-time — the biggest architectural shift in Solana's history and the first test of the…
The broker that cleared the crypto industry's tokenized-equity layer now faces a direct competitor from the depository itself, one that issues tokens with full shareholder rights from inside the…