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How pro trader Dentoshi sets up for a hot market

When the market’s hot, having a plan is half the profit. That’s the mindset pro trader Dentoshi brought to our latest live session, hosted by Kraken’s VP Growth, Matt Howells-Barby. In front of thousands of live viewers, Dentoshi opened up her process for preparing to trade in bullish market conditions – from weekly reviews and…

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Making sense of crypto investing: A simple explanation of Kraken’s CF Benchmarks’ new factor model

Kraken’s CF Benchmarks (CFB) has introduced a comprehensive analysis framework to help investors better understand cryptocurrency portfolio construction, optimization and risk management. Why should you care about crypto factors? A familiar model that applies to a new asset class Investors have long relied on factor-based approaches in traditional markets to understand the underlying drivers of…

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Layer3 is here and open for trading!

We’re thrilled to announce that Layer3 (L3) is now available on Kraken! Funding and trading L3 trading will be live as of 10:00 AM UTC today, July 30, 2024. To add $L3 to your Kraken account, navigate to Funding, select the asset you’re after, and hit ‘Deposit’.  Make sure to deposit your tokens using the…

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Bitcoin and pizza: A feast of parallels for the digital age

Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day! Today, we celebrate Laszlo Hanyecz’ historic bitcoin-for-pizza transaction – the first time bitcoins were used as currency in exchange for real-world goods. You can read Laszlo’s original bitcoin-for-pizza bitcointalk.org forum post here. This year, instead of focusing on Laszlo’s mindboggling opportunity cost (yes, those 10,000 bitcoins are worth about $700M today),…

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Why liquidity is an important metric in crypto markets

Trading volume has long been the default metric cited by analysts, media pundits and aggregators to rank cryptocurrency exchanges. While volume provides a high-level overview of marketplace activity, it can be faked to create the impression there’s more legitimate trading activity on a marketplace than there really is.  The exchange can simply print non-existent trades…

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Opinion: Why there will never be another Bitcoin

By Pete Rizzo, Kraken Editor at Large Pete Rizzo is a leading Bitcoin Historian and author of over 2,000 articles on cryptocurrency. He is also an Editor at Bitcoin Magazine. The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and does not necessarily reflect the views of Kraken or its management.…