Spotware istaking its liquidity-bridge fight to MetaQuotes, and it is starting with thebill. The company behind the cTrader platform has launched cBridge, a standalone bridge that connectsbrokers to multiple liquidity providers across trading platforms, and ChiefExecutive Ilia Iarovitcyn says it will not charge brokers by trading volume."Thisis basic functionality, and charging brokers extra for it does not feel fair tous," Iarovitcyn told FM Intelligence. He addedthat simple liquidity connectivity is "now only around 10% of what brokersneed," with risk management, low-latency execution and real-time analyticsacross aggregated data making up the rest.cBridge Flat Fee AgainstUltency's MeterTheflat-fee pitch is a direct contrast with MetaQuotes'Ultency, the MT5native aggregation engine priced at $1 per $1 million of traded volume.Iarovitcyn said cBridge keeps "the cost structure predictable regardlessof how the business grows," a model he argued matters most to firms asthey scale.For acompany that was effectively the cTrader platform for 15 years, the launch isthe clearest sign yet that Spotware wants to be broker infrastructure. The corebridge functionality "has existed inside cTrader for years,"Iarovitcyn said, with brokers long able to connect liquidity providers directlywithout a separate fee.[#highlighted-links#] Whatchanged, he said, was client demand for that connectivity to work across allplatforms, "giving them the opportunity to connect different platformsbeyond cTrader and manage liquidity across their stack."That putsSpotware into a field already contested by oneZero, Centroid, Gold-i and PrimeXM, vendors FinanceMagnates.comhas reported are facing a pricingsqueeze from MetaQuotes. MetaQuoteshas drawn an adoption wave for Ultency that includesLMAX, GMG Prime and Vantage.Beyond the Trading ScreenThe bridgeis one of two moves taking Spotware beyond the trading screen. The companyhas also opened cTraderto AI agents throughtwo official model-context-protocol (MCP) servers, joining IG Australia, ThinkMarkets, Webull and InteractiveBrokers inwiring trading platforms to large language models. "Asthe developer of cTrader, we can go considerably deeper, building theconnection into the platform itself, not bridging to it," Iarovitcyn said."No external tool can replicate that level of access."Spotwarereports more than 11 million traders on cTrader and 105% year-over-year growthin US-dollar trading volume, with its broker andprop-firm client count topping 300 after adding 104 new clients in 2025, according to companyfigures. The brokerarriving in 2026 is "far more sophisticated," Iarovitcyn said,weighing total cost of ownership over platform features alone and seeking"an environment without lock-in."Iarovitcynspoke with Finance Magnates Intelligence in a wide-ranging exchange on cBridge,AI agents and where retail trading is heading by 2030. Read the fullconversation on FM Intelligence.This article was written by Damian Chmiel at www.financemagnates.com.