Interactive Brokers (Nasdaq: IBKR) has expanded its digital-asset offering with nine new tokens available through custody partner Zerohash and three through Paxos Trust Company, while simultaneously introducing the ability for clients to withdraw funds via stablecoin for the first time. The announcement, made on 14 July 2026, positions the S&P 500-listed multi-asset broker as one of the more complete institutional-grade venues for trading crypto alongside conventional securities.
The new tokens available through Zerohash include Aave (AAVE), Aptos (APT), Lido DAO (LDO), Monad (MON), NEAR Protocol (NEAR), Uniswap (UNI) and Pax Gold (PAXG), the latter being a gold-backed digital token representing physically allocated gold held in professional vault facilities. Canton (CC) and Plasma (XPL) are also included. Aave, Uniswap and Pax Gold are additionally available through Paxos.
Stablecoin funding rail
The more structurally significant development is the extension of Interactive Brokers’ stablecoin funding to cover outbound transfers. Clients can now withdraw USD from their IBKR account via automatic conversion to USDC, issued by Circle; PYUSD, the PayPal stablecoin; or RLUSD, issued by Ripple. Bidirectional stablecoin funding enables near-instant movement of capital around the clock, including weekends and public holidays, a material operational advantage over ACH and wire transfers that operate on bank business hours.
Chief executive Milan Galik said the firm sees digital assets as part of a client’s broader financial experience rather than a separate offering, and that growing stablecoin adoption in payments and settlement makes access to these rails a core platform requirement. Galik’s framing reflects a shift in how regulated brokers are approaching stablecoins: not as speculative assets but as settlement instruments.
It is worth noting that bidirectional stablecoin funding is not available to clients of Interactive Brokers (UK) Limited or Interactive Brokers Ireland Limited, and the newly added crypto-assets are unavailable to clients of the Irish entity. UK and EU clients therefore receive a materially narrower version of this expansion, a restriction likely driven by the different regulatory environments those affiliates operate under.
Market and regulatory context
Interactive Brokers’ pricing claims merit scrutiny. The company states commissions starting at 0.12% to 0.18% of trade value with a USD 1.75 minimum, citing competitors charging up to 1.20% or more. The release does not name those comparators, so the figures cannot be independently verified here. What is clear is that the broker is positioning cost transparency as a differentiator at a moment when several traditional brokerages have begun offering crypto with opaque spread-based pricing rather than explicit commissions.
The broader competitive dynamic is genuine. Dedicated crypto exchanges offer depth and token variety but lack integrated multi-asset portfolios, margin, and access to global equity and futures markets. Traditional brokers that have moved into crypto tend to offer narrow rosters and higher fees. Interactive Brokers is attempting to occupy the middle ground: regulated multi-asset infrastructure with a growing digital-asset layer and institutional-grade custody through Zerohash and Paxos.
In the UK, the Financial Conduct Authority‘s crypto asset registration regime and its travel rule implementation under the Money Laundering Regulations add compliance overhead that shapes which products affiliates can offer. In the EU, the Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation (MiCA) is now in full effect, further constraining which tokens and stablecoin arrangements can be offered to retail clients. These frameworks explain, in part, why the US entity is moving faster than its UK and Irish counterparts on stablecoin functionality.
The next milestones to watch are whether Interactive Brokers extends stablecoin withdrawal to non-US affiliates as MiCA guidance matures, whether the token roster continues to expand toward more liquid DeFi protocol tokens, and how competitors respond on pricing.
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