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28 Aug 2026

Schwab adds Solana, Avalanche and Chainlink to its crypto platform

Schwab is extending its May 2026 Bitcoin and Ether launch to SOL, AVAX and LINK across its 39.9 million retail accounts, at a 75 basis point fee.

22 Aug 2026

Binance launches Agent OS, the last of Cresori's connected brokers joins the AI-agent wave

Binance launched Agent OS, letting outside AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude Code and Cursor read market data, check balances and place trades through permissioned subaccounts with withdrawals blocked by default.

21 Aug 2026

Webull ships native ChatGPT, Claude and Grok connectors, plus a CLI

Webull launched native AI connectors for ChatGPT, Claude and Grok alongside a new command-line interface, the fuller version of the connector we only briefly mentioned in June.

21 Aug 2026

Alpaca registers as a CFTC Futures Commission Merchant, prediction markets next

Alpaca Derivatives registered as a Futures Commission Merchant and NFA member, the formal regulatory groundwork ahead of an eventual Alpaca prediction-markets launch.

20 Aug 2026

The SEC's crypto rulemaking gets a name: Regulation Crypto Assets

The SEC proposed Regulation Crypto Assets, a dedicated offering and trading framework for crypto investment contracts, the actual rule text following July's three-proposal announcement.

16 Aug 2026

tastytrade acquires the Wagl team, its first real move into building AI itself

tastytrade acquired the team behind Wagl, its first sign of building AI capability in-house rather than reacting to unofficial MCP servers built by outside developers.

15 Aug 2026

Coinbase gets Abu Dhabi approval for a tokenized-securities hub

Coinbase secured FSRA approval in Abu Dhabi for a tokenization hub, with a tokenized AAPL certificate as its first product, letting investors hold tokenized equities with shareholder rights via a wallet.

14 Aug 2026

IBKR adds the Bucharest Stock Exchange, passing 170 markets

Interactive Brokers extended access to Romania's BVB, one of Europe's strongest-performing markets in 2025, bringing its total exchange count past 170.

11 Aug 2026

tastytrade adds near-24/5 overnight trading for index options

Via Cboe Global Trading Hours, tastytrade now lets clients trade SPX, VIX, XSP and RUT options overnight and in a late-afternoon 'Curb' session, on the same order ticket as regular hours.

9 Aug 2026

The Senate delays its crypto market-structure bill to September

The CLARITY Act, which would set custody and registration rules for crypto exchanges, won't get a vote before the Senate's summer recess. A procedural vote is now set for September 15.

8 Aug 2026

Coinbase loses its Michigan court fight over prediction markets

A federal judge denied Coinbase's bid to block Michigan regulators from enforcing against its Kalshi-powered sports event contracts, rejecting its federal-preemption argument.

7 Aug 2026

AI-cloned voices targeted Citadel, Point72 and other major hedge funds

A coordinated voice-cloning phishing campaign tried to trick employees at Citadel, Point72, Two Sigma and Millennium into granting system access, triggering the first real-world use of FINRA's new threat-intel center.

6 Aug 2026

IBKR extends its Brazil access from stocks to futures

Interactive Brokers added Brazilian futures through the B3 exchange for clients outside Brazil, extending access that was equities-only since December 2025.

1 Aug 2026

Coinbase posts a third straight quarterly revenue decline

Coinbase's Q2 2026 revenue fell 19% to $1.22B with a $359.5M loss, the third consecutive quarterly decline, driven by falling trading activity, and the stock dropped over 10% on the news.

1 Aug 2026

Bloomberg acquires Canoe Intelligence, another data provider consolidating around AI

Bloomberg is acquiring AI-powered private-markets data platform Canoe Intelligence, part of a push to unify public and private market data under one roof.

31 Jul 2026

Binance adds gold and silver options after its metals futures pulled in billions a day

Binance launched gold and silver options on the ADGM-regulated Nest Exchange, following metals perpetual futures volume that peaked at $7.77B a day on gold alone, 3-20% of COMEX volume.

30 Jul 2026

Binance changes how it handles foreign law-enforcement data requests

Binance now routes most foreign law-enforcement requests through UAE channels and mutual legal assistance treaties, a process US and European investigators say slows down tracing crypto scams and money laundering.

29 Jul 2026

IBKR's AI connector isn't limited to Claude, ChatGPT and Grok anymore

IBKR opened a public MCP connector that works with any compatible AI tool, not just its three certified marketplace partners, a bigger shift in access model than it sounds.

28 Jul 2026

Days after a FINRA fine, tastytrade launches CFTC-regulated prediction markets

tastytrade added event contracts on Fed decisions, inflation prints, VIX and crude directly into the brokerage account, built on Apex Fintech's turnkey FCM infrastructure.

23 Jul 2026

FINRA fines tastytrade $850,000 over payment-for-order-flow failures

FINRA found tastytrade routed 8.8 million customer equity orders to five payment-for-order-flow market makers over three years without ever benchmarking execution quality elsewhere.

22 Jul 2026

Alpaca partners with Broadridge to give tokenized stockholders actual shareholder rights

Alpaca and Broadridge are bringing proxy voting, disclosures and investor communications to holders of tokenized US equities, closing a gap that's dogged tokenized stocks since they launched.

21 Jul 2026

The AI-agent wave reaches advisor tools too: d1g1t launches an MCP server

Wealth-management platform d1g1t connected its enterprise portfolio system directly to Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot via MCP, a different category from the brokers we've been tracking.

18 Jul 2026

TradeStation's gated AI connector isn't Claude-only anymore: ChatGPT joins the walled garden

TradeStation's MCP connector, previously restricted to Claude Pro subscribers with a $10,000 account minimum, now also supports ChatGPT. The gate stayed, the guest list got longer.

17 Jul 2026

Alpaca raises $135M, and Kraken's parent company is one of the backers

Alpaca closed a $135M round led by Peak XV, bringing total financing to $435M, earmarked for agent-first brokerage infrastructure and a push into tokenized markets.

16 Jul 2026

MetaTrader 5 adds native AI agents, the platform behind half the second wave

MetaQuotes' MetaTrader 5 beta now supports MCP natively, letting it connect to Claude Code, Codex and other external AI agents without locking to one provider.

15 Jul 2026

Kraken wants trading tools plugged into its API, and it's paying for the privilege

Kraken launched an API Partner Program offering lifetime revenue-share to platforms that route order flow through its spot, futures and xStocks infrastructure.

11 Jul 2026

Databento raises $97M to challenge Bloomberg and LSEG, with a 24-person team

Databento closed a $97M Series B, positioning it as a challenger to Bloomberg and LSEG: pay-per-use market data, direct feeds from 80+ venues.

9 Jul 2026

It's not just IBKR and Alpaca anymore: five more brokers wired up AI agents in June

Deriv, Webull, IG Group, ThinkMarkets and eToro all shipped AI-agent connectors in about two weeks in June, mostly on infra they didn't build.

8 Jul 2026

While the EU shut Binance out, the SEC is drafting rules to make US crypto easier

The SEC is targeting three crypto rulemaking proposals this month: token-offering safe harbors, custody and net-capital rules for crypto broker-dealers, and market-structure changes for crypto trading venues.

6 Jul 2026

A data provider joins the AI-agent wave: Eulerpool partners with Anthropic, raises $20M

Eulerpool, a data provider used by BlackRock and Goldman Sachs, opened its data to Claude agents in February, then raised its first funding round in March.

3 Jul 2026

Binance shuts off EU trading after missing its MiCA license deadline

Binance suspended new orders, deposits and sign-ups for EU users after failing to secure a MiCA license in time. Withdrawals stay open while it pursues a French license instead.

30 Jun 2026

Six weeks, five brokers: the industry just handed AI agents the keys

Robinhood, IBKR, Coinbase and more opened their platforms to AI agents in mid-2026. The timeline, and what actually changed under the hood at each.

23 Jun 2026

IBKR opens agentic AI trading: Claude first, then ChatGPT and Grok

Interactive Brokers now lets Claude, ChatGPT and Grok draft trade instructions on your account, here's exactly what they can (and can't) do.

17 Jun 2026

Coinbase now lets AI agents trade for you, and some don't need your approval

Coinbase for Agents connects Claude or ChatGPT to your account for crypto trading, and unlike most brokers, the agent can run fully autonomously.

8 Jun 2026

Alpaca's API traffic nearly 4x'd in Q1 2026, AI agents are the reason

Alpaca's broker API usage jumped to ~30% month-over-month as AI agents trade through it, and it shipped a CLI and enhanced MCP Server to match.

8 May 2026

Schwab adds an AI narrator to your portfolio: daily summaries, no agent trading involved

Schwab's AI Portfolio Insights writes a daily narrative of what moved your portfolio and why, for every retail client. No trading authority involved.

16 Jan 2026

TradeStation's new AI-agent connector isn't free: $10,000 minimum, Claude Pro required

TradeStation launched an MCP connector for Claude, but gated behind a $10,000 account minimum and an active Claude Pro subscription.