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NFTs: How Licensing Technology Furthers Art’s Revolution

Humans have always loved making and displaying art. Deep within a cave in modern-day Spain lies a Neanderthal hand stencil that scientists have radiocarbon dated to 64,000 years – it’s the oldest known example of art anywhere in the world.  Over the past 60,000 years, human creative expression has expanded into a plethora of mediums,…

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Meet The Kraken Bank Executive Team: COO Michael Giorgio

When is the last time a bank put customer needs, security and open access to all first? David Kinitsky, Kraken Bank CEO, outlined eight reasons why consumers need a customized banking structure that modernizes the products and services we all utilize on a daily basis. To design the blockchain-based system that will be “more secure than…

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Kraken Commits Funding to Ethereum 2.0 Transition with New Gitcoin Giving

Kraken is excited to announce it will match up to $50,000 in donations to open-source Ethereum infrastructure projects as part of Gitcoin’s latest donation drive starting March 10. Over two weeks, Gitcoin, a platform for fundraising built on the Ethereum blockchain, will match user grants to projects focused on everything from educational outreach to decentralized…

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OCEAN and EWT trading starts March 3 – Deposit Now

Ocean Protocol (OCEAN) and Energy Web Token (EWT) trading starts on March 3 at approximately 15:30 UTC.  Deposits for both assets are currently open so you can deposit now and get ready for the launch of trading tomorrow! Note: EWT trading is not available to residents of the US and Canada. Ocean Protocol (OCEAN) – …

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Oxidizing Kraken: Improving Kraken Infrastructure Using Rust

Simon Chemouil  –  Director of Engineering, Core Backend For more than two years now, Kraken’s Core Backend team has been using Rust to modernize services originally written in PHP, while building new products, expanding the feature set and supporting the ever expanding increase in cryptocurrency trading activity. Hi 👋! I’m Simon, the Director of Engineering…

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Welcome to Kraken Engineering

At Kraken, Engineering and technology innovation have been the lifeblood of our business since our inception. For more than ten years, Kraken has been committed to building a crypto platform with the highest standards for security, performance and reliability. In that time, our people and systems have had to evolve under the enormous pressures of…

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Out With The Old, In With The New: Market Structure Analysis

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…

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Kraken Backs Launch of Venture Capital Fund

Kraken is supporting the launch of a new independent initiative to actively invest in early stage cryptocurrency and fintech startups.  Kraken Ventures, a global investment operation with a presence in Austin, Berlin, Hong Kong, London, New York, and San Francisco will provide the necessary resources and expertise to developers and respective technologies that will power…

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Kraken Donates $100k to Coin Center

February 1, 2021 | News Kraken is excited to announce a $100k donation to Coin Center, one of the leading non-profit advocacy groups focused on the public policy issues facing digital asset technologies. This latest donation is part of Kraken’s ongoing commitment to the excellent work Coin Center does to promote research, educate regulators and…