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Authored by: Shannon Kurtas, Product Director, Pro & Institutional TradingMax Kaplan, Sr. Engineering Director, Core Infrastructure & Data EngineeringSuketu Gandhi, Sr. Engineering Director, Trading TechnologySteve Hunt, VP Engineering Nearly twelve years ago, Kraken began its pioneering mission to become one of the first and most successful digital asset exchanges. We started trading only four cryptocurrencies,…
March 29, 2023 | Asset Listings, Product Kraken now supports new margin pairs for Arbitrum (ARB)! Margin trading is now available for the below pairs for ARB: Pair base Pair name Available leverage Long Position Limit Short Position Limit ARB ARBUSD 3 30,000 10,000 ARB ARBEUR 3 17,000 7,000 Here’s what you need to know…
We’re thrilled to announce that Kraken now supports deposits and withdrawals of Dai (DAI), USD Coin (USDC) and Tether (USDT) on the Arbitrum Network! Arbitrum is a Layer 2 (L2) blockchain protocol built on top of the Ethereum blockchain that allows Ethereum transactions to be processed more efficiently. Funding Funding is already live. You can…
March 22, 2023 | Asset Listings, Product We’re excited to announce that Kraken now supports Arbitrum (ARB)! Funding and trading Funding is live, and trading will begin on March 23 at approximately 13:00 UTC. Add ARB to your Kraken account by navigating to Funding, selecting Arbitrum (ARB) and hitting Deposit. Already have ARB and a…
March 16, 2023 | Asset Listings, Product We’re thrilled to announce that Kraken now supports deposits and withdrawals of Tether (USDT) via the Solana network! Solana is an open source blockchain platform and scaling solution for decentralized applications (dApps). The platform uses a novel consensus mechanism known as proof-of-history (PoH) to increase transaction throughput and…
We’re thrilled to announce that Kraken now supports new margin pairs for Fantom (FTM), Lido DAO (LDO), Ocean Protocol (OCEAN) and PAXG (PAX Gold)! Fantom (FTM) Fantom is a blockchain-based smart contract platform for developing decentralized applications (dApps). The platform uses a novel consensus mechanism and asynchronous Byzantine Fault Tolerance (aBFT) approach to solve issues…
We’re thrilled to announce that Kraken now supports new margin pairs for Flare (FLR), Blur (BLUR), Aptos (APT) and Mina (MINA)! Flare (FLR) Flare is an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) based Layer 1 blockchain focused on creating deeper interoperability between different blockchains and decentralized applications. Flare offers FAssets and the LayerCake protocol to open more…
March 8, 2023 | Asset Listings Following Kraken’s listings of Aptos (APT) for most countries on October 19, 2022, Kraken is excited to announce the availability of APT for residents of the United States and Canada! Funding and Trading Funding and trading are live. You can add APT to your Kraken account by navigating to…
The Shanghai upgrade is a set of changes to the Ethereum protocol that will allow users to unstake, or withdraw, their staked ether (ETH). Before the Shanghai upgrade, any ETH dedicated to staking remained locked within the Ethereum blockchain. The Shanghai upgrade will include a change to the Ethereum protocol that allows this staked ETH…
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