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July 22, 2021 | Kraken Intelligence Crypto savings accounts are rapidly becoming an attractive option over traditional savings accounts. As interest rates drift lower – sometimes negative – people are seeking to maximize passive returns on their crypto assets. In Kraken’s previous report on decentralized finance, we explored how participants are maximizing their principal crypto…
February 19, 2021 | Kraken Intelligence VIP clients are the first to receive Kraken Intelligence reports. If you’d like early access to our latest research, sign up to trade with us today or ask your account manager for more details. Retail investors have more information and more tools at their fingertips than ever before. But…
Kraken Security Labs, our expert team of security researchers, identified vulnerabilities within the Safepal S1 hardware wallet. While we were not able to steal cryptocurrency from the wallet, we demonstrate certain weaknesses that may make future compromise possible. At Kraken, we try to discover attacks before they happen. Upon discovery, we disclosed the full details…
February 8, 2021 | Kraken Intelligence VIP clients are the first to receive Kraken Intelligence reports. If you’d like early access to our latest research, sign up to trade with us today or ask your account manager for more details. 2021 kicked off with a 46% surge in the bitcoin price and a return to…
Ledger clients whose data was stolen in a breach were targeted in a phishing scam this past week. Below, our expert team at Kraken Security Labs has put together an analysis of the ongoing attack against Ledger clients. This instructive case study could prove useful to all crypto holders. Since phishing continues to be one…
Fast, furious, ever-changing. It’s not easy to find success as a trader in the 24/7 cryptocurrency market. Whatever experience you have, trust us, you’ve never seen anything like this before. Still, it’s possible to not just survive – but thrive – in the crypto market. That’s why on Thursday, September 10 at 13:00 UTC, Kraken’s Head of…
A measure of the total computational power dedicated to securing Bitcoin, hashrate is one of the most important metrics for measuring the technology’s health and adoption. As such, it has emerged as a major area of focus for news media and data providers seeking to forecast the future price of Bitcoin. Such speculations are not…
Kraken Security Labs has identified two new attacks that, if executed successfully by malicious actors, could compromise the security of Ledger Nano X wallet owners. These attacks affect wallets tampered with prior to the user receiving the wallet, as might occur in the event it is intercepted during shipment or purchased from a malicious reseller.…
April 15, 2020 | Kraken Intelligence By now, even beginner crypto traders know about Bitcoin’s halving and how it has proved to be a boon for smart investors in the past. However, they may not realize other protocols utilize deflationary monetary mechanisms similar to Bitcoin’s. In fact, Zcash, which evolved from Bitcoin’s code and retained…
March 27, 2020 | Kraken Intelligence VIP clients are the first to receive Kraken Intelligence reports. If you’d like early access to our latest research and the opportunity to participate in future surveys, create an account today or ask your account manager for details. Kraken Intelligence, our team of in-house research experts, surveyed 400 clients…
