News

Kraken Hires Veteran Cryptocurrency Journalist Pete Rizzo

Kraken is excited to announce Pete Rizzo has become the latest bitcoin and cryptocurrency industry veteran to join our growing global team. Pete is best known for his foundational work as Editor-in-Chief at leading industry news-source CoinDesk. While there, he oversaw all content production for CoinDesk.com, as well as the company’s subscription emails, monthly research…

Uncategorized

Bitcoin Volatility Report for December 2019

January 7, 2020 | Kraken Intelligence Kraken Intelligence, our team of in-house research experts, has released the Bitcoin Volatility Report for December, 2019. Key Takeaways While bitcoin trading volumes and price fell -18.8% and -5.2% MoM, respectively, bitcoin’s annualized volatility was virtually flat MoM at 50.6%, the lowest level since last March. In 2019, bitcoin…

Uncategorized

The Weekly Hash – December 30 – January 4

January 6, 2020 | Uncategorized Check out the latest happenings in the world of crypto, brought to you by the experts at Kraken. This digest is prepared for informative purposes only and does not represent an investment recommendation or investment advice. Please see our full disclaimer at the bottom for more information. See below all…

Uncategorized

The Weekly Hash – December 23 – 27

December 30, 2019 | Uncategorized Check out all the important happenings of the past week in the world of crypto, brought to you by the experts at Kraken. This digest is prepared for informative purposes only and does not represent an investment recommendation or investment advice. Please see our full disclaimer at the bottom for…

Uncategorized

Bitcoin Volatility Report for November 2019

December 9, 2019 | Kraken Intelligence Kraken Intelligence, our team of in-house research experts, has released the Bitcoin Volatility Report for November, 2019. Key Takeaways Bitcoin’s volatility fell to a 2-month low of 43.6% before advancing to a final November print of 51.2%, a -32.5% decline month-over-month. Monthly trading volumes dropped -13% and the price…

Uncategorized

Inside Kraken Security Labs: Crypto Domain Hijacking

If you leave digital footprints, (spoiler: you do) then you can be followed. Just because you shut down an account, switched domain names or got a new Twitter handle does not mean that your old tracks disappear. In fact, the footprints you leave online can become critical vulnerabilities.  At Kraken Security Labs, we work to…

Uncategorized

A Quick Primer on Funding Rates

Funding rates are a new concept that only exist in perpetual futures contracts. Because they are critical to the operation of a healthy perpetual futures contract, we thought a quick primer on funding rates would be useful. To try out our Futures Platform with a demo account or a real one, click here.Quick Summary: The…

Uncategorized

Introducing Crypto 101

November 12, 2019 | Crypto Education [embedded content] Nodes, blockchains, miners… takers, makers, alt-coin fakers… In crypto, you either know what’s up, or you’re a no-coiner. Not sure what a no-coiner is? Then this series is for you. Staying true to our mission to bring crypto to everyone, Kraken CEO Jesse Powell explains it all…

Uncategorized

Bitcoin Volatility Report for October 2019

November 8, 2019 | Kraken Intelligence Kraken Intelligence, our team of in-house research experts, has released the Bitcoin Volatility Report for October, 2019. Key Takeaways After leaping +43% to a 7-week high of $10,580 in under 48 hours, bitcoin’s annualized volatility climbed to a 10-week high of 75.8%. Bitcoin’s velocity was the only tracked metric…