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Meet Kraken’s new Chief Technology Officer, Vishnu Patankar

Kraken, one of the world’s longest standing and most trusted crypto platforms, today announced the appointment of Vishnu Patankar as Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Patankar brings over twenty years of technology expertise to Kraken and helped Fortune 500 companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Intel, and Groupon to scale products that impacted millions of clients worldwide.  At…

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Scaling Kraken’s trading infrastructure for the next decade of growth

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,…

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Crust Shadow (CSM) Trading Starts July 27 – Deposit Now

July 27, 2022 | Asset Listings, Product We’re thrilled to announce that Kraken now supports Crust Shadow (CSM)! Funding and Trading You can add CSM to your Kraken account by navigating to Funding, selecting the asset, and then Deposit. Trading will be available on July 27th. Here’s what you need to know: Ticker CSM Tradeable…

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Phala (PHA) Trading Starts October 8 – Deposit Now

October 7, 2021 | News We’re thrilled to announce that Kraken now supports Phala (PHA)! Please note that this is the Kusama version of Phala (PHA). Deposits and withdrawals are available starting now Trading will begin at approximately 15:30 UTC on October 8 Clients who contributed to Khala’s Parachain Auction on Kraken will automatically receive…

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Polkadot and Kusama Parachains Primer

September 3, 2021 | Kraken Intelligence Polkadot and Kusama are two emerging blockchains with an exciting feature known as parachains, which are custom blockchains selected by public auction to join these exclusive networks. While this novel selection process has garnered a lot of excitement, there is still confusion as to how it works. In Kraken…