And

Manscaping, minus the fancy price tag.

AI will fundamentally rewrite the global financial value chain, making marginal operating costs near-zero and creating highly personalized, previously impossible products, argues guest columnist Nigel Morris of QED Investors. He warns that success will depend on whether incumbent banks and fintechs are willing to self-cannibalize and rebuild their operations around this transformative technology.

“Tokenization continues to accelerate, and AI agents are changing how people interact with financial markets. The changes are real.” Recently, our Co-Founder and CEO, Yoshi Yokokawa, joined Andy C and Robbie Klages from The Rollup to discuss the trends driving Alpaca’s recent funding announcement and why they represent the next phase of financial infrastructure. The conversation covered: 1️⃣ Why tokenization continues to accelerate as financial markets move on-chain. 2️⃣ How AI agents are changing the way people interact with financial markets and creating new demand for API-first infrastructure. 3️⃣ Why these two trends are driving the next phase of growth for Alpaca’s brokerage infrastructure. Watch the full interview with Yoshi to hear more about how Alpaca is building regulated brokerage infrastructure for the next generation of tokenized markets and AI-native financial services. The link to the interview is in the comments.