FTX.US Launches Stock Trading for Select Users
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FTX.US Launches Stock Trading for Select Users

THELOGICALINDIAN - The barter will aggrandize admission to the affection over the abutting month

FTX.US opened its stock-trading account to baddest barter today, according to a press release from the company.

FTX Stocks Now In Beta Access

FTX.US has opened beta admission to FTX Stocks, which will be offered through its trading app to a baddest waitlisted users. The alms will be broadcast to the absolute belvedere over the abutting month, according to FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried.

The account offers acceptable barter the befalling to advance in hundreds of stocks, as able-bodied as ETFs and added securities. Users will additionally accept admission to apportioned allotment trading in some cases.

In adjustment to ensure fair pricing, FTX.US will avenue orders through Nasdaq and will not accept acquittal for adjustment flow. On Twitter, Bankman-Fried commented that the aggregation earns “nothing” and that the “goal is aloof to accord barter a abundant experience.”

Elsewhere, FTX.US admiral Brett Harrison said that the account is allotment of the company’s affairs to access its ambit and “offer a holistic advance account for our barter beyond all asset classes” including cryptocurrency, NFTs, and acceptable stocks.

FTX.US is the eleventh-largest crypto exchange, with $250 actor in trading aggregate over 24 hours. Its all-embracing analogue is larger, with a $3 billion aggregate over the aforementioned period.

FTX Will Compete With Robinhood, eToro

Though FTX.US is the aboriginal cryptocurrency barter to action banal trading, it will attempt with Robinhood and eToro, two accepted retail banal trading platforms that additionally action cryptocurrency features.

FTX Stocks will action some appearance that will advice the aggregation attempt adjoin those battling services. In particular, it will accept no minimum antithesis requirements, no tiered account levels, commission-less trading, and fee-less accounts.

It will additionally acquiesce users to armamentarium their allowance accounts with the USDC stablecoin, a affection currently accessible boilerplate else.

Despite FTX.US actuality the aboriginal centralized crypto barter to action stocks, some DeFi platforms like Synthetix action constructed assets—or crypto tokens angry to stocks. As such, there are already alcove options for investors who are not on FTX.US’s waitlist.

Disclosure: At the time of writing, the columnist of this allotment endemic BTC, ETH, and added cryptocurrencies.