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We’re thrilled to announce that Kraken ranked #2 globally in Kaiko’s Q2 2025 Exchange Ranking, up from our #3 spot in Q1. This advance reflects what our global community already knows: We aren’t just one of the world’s leading crypto exchanges, we’re a platform that’s constantly improving, evolving and pushing the industry forward. Kaiko’s exchange…
As crypto adoption accelerates, financial infrastructure providers are racing to enable access to digital assets, while avoiding the complexity of building in-house trading infrastructure. Kraken Embed solves this by delivering a Crypto-as-a-Service (CaaS) solution that allows banks, fintechs and financial platforms to integrate regulated crypto trading through a single, compliant and scalable API. Kraken and…
Kraken began 2025 building on 2024’s solid momentum, navigating a shifting and softening market to outperform, even growing volume share. Our sustained performance across cycles demonstrates the resiliency of our platform, which continues to attract new clients and deepen existing relationships. We took a meaningful step toward our multi-asset vision by acquiring NinjaTrader, and rolled…
April 30, 2025 | Kraken Embed Announcing a turnkey solution for banks, fintechs and financial platforms — now powering bunq’s in-app crypto trading. As appetite for crypto grows, financial platforms are racing to meet demand. But building secure, compliant infrastructure is complex, expensive and time consuming. Kraken Embed – scalable Crypto-as-a-Service – makes it easy…
Designed for fairness, accessibility, and ultra-fast execution, we are proud to announce the coming debut of colocation services in partnership with Beeks Exchange Cloud®. This offering, set to go live later this year, represents a major step forward in how we support both institutional and individual clients who demand the very best in trading performance.…
We’re excited to announce our new colocation service, which will provide clients access to ultra-fast execution. The service is designed to further enhance our trading performance and scalability, while maintaining fair and transparent access to our global crypto markets. Starting later this year, clients will be able to access ultra-low-latency trading from our European data…
Our FIX API for derivatives trading is a significant addition to our suite of API solutions. Designed specifically to cater to the needs of professional and institutional clients, our new API facilitates seamless integration with our derivatives trading engine. Built on the industry-standard FIX 4.4 protocol, our implementation ensures compatibility with existing trading systems while…
The complexities of tracking and filing crypto taxes have long been a significant barrier to fully exploring the breadth of the crypto ecosystem. So we’re extending our partnership with Koinly, a leading crypto tracking and tax reporting solution, to simplify the process for our clients so they can trade with confidence. First things first: Your…
By Bivu Das, Kraken U.K. General Manager “Tax complexity itself is a kind of tax.” This famous quote from U.S. Senator Max Baucus resonates regardless of your country of residence. In the emerging crypto ecosystem, there are additional complications given the lack of clear and consistent jurisdictional tax guidelines and the importance of accurately tracking…
By Ben Irving, Kraken Sr. Software Engineer Performance pain can make developers go the extra mile. In this blog post, you can learn from the performance issues we experienced at Kraken and how we embarked on a New Architecture adoption journey to solve those issues. Yes, there were speed bumps along the way. We learned…
