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November 2, 2022 | News Ever wondered what goes behind throwing one of the largest virtual festivals with some of the biggest names in music? Here’s your chance to find out! Join Kraken’s CMO, Mayur Gupta in Decentraland’s “Behind the Scenes” Twitter Space on Nov. 3rd at 12pm ET to chat about this year’s Metaverse…
When Satoshi Nakamoto released the Bitcoin white paper on this day in 2008, they proposed a novel system for a global digital form of money. The leaderless, nonpartisan network of Bitcoin nodes now maintains a truly borderless and permissionless monetary system. Since the very first Bitcoin block was created in the wake of the 2008…
The opportunity to witness Ozzy Osbourne’s onstage shenanigans seldom knocks twice and we’re making sure you get to tick that experience off your bucket list. This year we’re excited to present Decentraland’s Metaverse Music Festival with performances from Soulja Boy on the Limewire Stage, Dillon Francis, CryptoPunk Rapper Spottie WiFi, and, of course, Ozzy himself…
“Cryptocurrency remains an important humanitarian tool, especially at a time when many around the world can no longer rely on traditional banks and custodians.” – Jesse Powell, Kraken Co-founder and CEO On March 9, 2022, we announced an ambitious aid package as Kraken distributed $1,000 in BTC to all Ukrainian accounts. This came two weeks…
Kraken is proud to announce that it has become a Diamond Sponsor of the Anti-Human Trafficking Intelligence Initiative (ATII), a U.S.-based nonprofit that harnesses intelligence to help financial institutions, technology firms and cryptocurrency exchanges combat human trafficking and child exploitation. “Kraken’s partnership with ATII will provide us with actionable data on illicit dark web use…
After a rigorous internal and external search over the past year, Kraken is thrilled to announce that our COO Dave Ripley will succeed Kraken’s Co-founder and CEO Jesse Powell, who will become chairman of the board of directors. Dave has been building the future of financial freedom and inclusion alongside Jesse for six years and…
Over seven years ago, on August 8, 2015, Kraken was the first exchange to make Ethereum (ETH) available to millions of clients. Today, we’re thrilled to announce that Kraken will support the Ethereum Merge that is estimated to take place between September 10-20, 2022. The Merge marks the end of Ethereum’s proof-of-work (PoW) mechanism and…
Kraken is thrilled to share the results of our second 2022 Proof of Reserves audit, which has been expanded to include: BTC* ETH* USDT USDC XRP ADA* DOT* Note: * Indicates Proof of Reserves audit covered assets held both on Kraken’s spot exchange and staking platform A Proof of Reserve audit is a trail-blazing accounting…
“You’d think after 11 years, you could start feeling comfortable with your business, but it has basically been wartime in crypto since day one.” In 2011, Kraken CEO Jesse Powell set out to build a crypto exchange that clients and regulators could trust. Despite headwinds and market uncertainties, Jesse has led Kraken through more than…
We’re thrilled to reveal 70 of the leading NFT collections that will soon be available to Kraken NFT beta testers. We carefully selected these collections so you can explore, curate and secure the NFT collection of your dreams with zero gas fees.* The beta will include NFT collections across the Ethereum and Solana blockchains. We…
