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Kraken is thrilled to welcome Mayur Gupta as our new Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Mayur will use his technology-driven marketing expertise, as recognized by Harvard Business Review, The Economist and Forbes, to accelerate Kraken’s mission by educating the world on the benefits and value of crypto. “Mayur is the perfect candidate to help Kraken lead…
April 1, 2022 | Product Kraken is thrilled to announce its support for Bitcoin’s Lightning Network, which is now live for all clients. Finally, traders have an instant and inexpensive way to move bitcoin on and off the platform. Why use Lightning? While regular BTC transactions are limited by block times and can face high…
Following Kraken’s listings of Bancor (BNT), The Graph (GRT), Livepeer (LPT), Loopring (LRC), Mirror Protocol (MIR), Sushi (SUSHI) and 1inch (1INCH) in most countries, Kraken is excited to announce that residents of the United States, Canada and Australia can now trade these tokens on Kraken. Funding and Trading Funding and trading are live. Keep an eye on the status page for updates. You can add…
Починаючи з 10 березня і до 1 липня, клієнти Kraken, які створили обліковий запис в Україні до 9 березня 2022 року, отримають 1000 доларів США у bitcoin, які можна буде негайно вивести з нашої біржі. Наразі також буде скасовано комісію за конвертацію валют до 1000 доларів США. «Ми сподіваємося, що й надалі матимемо можливість надавати…
March 3, 2022 | Kraken Intelligence Although crypto markets experienced high volatility throughout February, nearly all sectors closed the month with positive returns. Privacy coins and BTC led the recovery, while the DeFi sector posted losses for yet another month. Kraken Intelligence’s latest report, Moving Sideways, takes a closer look at how the crypto industry…
In the cryptocurrency world at large, Rust is fast becoming the preferred programming language for safe, long-lasting software. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce Kraken has officially funded developer Tobin Harding (tcharding) as a full-time maintainer for the Bitcoin Rust repository. Tobin will now be fully dedicated to coordinating Bitcoin Rust code review, encouraging and…
February 7, 2022 | Kraken Intelligence 2021 was a year of rapid growth for the digital asset industry. January 2022 however, saw a broad market sell-off and underwhelming performance, with DeFi tokens ending the month down between -4% and -79%. Despite market weakness early this year, the NFT and GameFi industries have picked up momentum…
You can now independently verify that the bitcoin and ether balances you hold on Kraken are backed by real assets secured by our global exchange. That’s because today we are releasing the results of our most recent Proof of Reserves audit, an advanced cryptographic accounting procedure we aim to conduct semi-annually in the years ahead with the help…
February 2, 2022 | Kraken Intelligence Cardano (ADA) initially rose to fame in 2017 as one of the more anticipated Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) of the year. Over time, the project persisted through a daunting crypto winter to earn its place among the top crypto assets by market capitalization. In Kraken Intelligence’s latest deep dive,…
After hitting an all-time high of $69,000 in November 2021, BTC fell by ~52% to 6-month lows of roughly $33,000 on January 24, 2022, and is down nearly -21% year-to-date. Some believe this downtrend to have been driven largely by concerns over the Federal Reserve’s hawkish policy after the December Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC)…
