Moomoo U.S. Rolls Out API Skills, First Brokerage to Tokenize Equity
FUTU•Moomoo U.S. saw growing retail investor sophistication as options activity climbed with covered strategies, protective puts, spreads and multi-leg positions driven by macro signals. The platform launched API Skills for AI agent–powered strategy building and became the first U.S. broker to offer Figure Technology’s SEC-registered blockchain-native equity.
1. Investor Sophistication and Options Surge
Moomoo U.S.'s 30 million retail clients showed growing sophistication by shifting from speculative trades to structured approaches, leading to surging options activity with covered strategies, protective puts, spreads and multi-leg positions driven by macro signals like interest rates, inflation and geopolitics.
2. AI Platform Enhancement and API Skills
The platform's AI roadmap emphasizes enhancement rather than replacement, exemplified by the launch of API Skills, which enables users to connect custom AI agents to translate natural-language investment ideas into structured trading strategies.
3. Broadening AI Investment Focus
Executives observed expanding AI-related investment interest beyond mega-cap technology to second-order beneficiaries such as semiconductors, data centers, cybersecurity and productivity software, reflecting a drive to separate long-term beneficiaries from short-term hype.
4. Milestone in Blockchain-Native Equity
Moomoo U.S. became the first U.S. brokerage to provide retail access to Figure Technology Solutions’ SEC-registered blockchain-native share issuance, signaling a key step toward tokenized equity access while institutional settlement and reconciliation benefits unfold.
