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Rise through the ranks with our new Futures Leaderboard

February 13, 2024 | Derivatives Welcome to a new chapter in competitive trading at Kraken Pro! We’re excited to roll out our Futures Leaderboard, a fresh community feature ranking our most skilled futures traders. Leaderboard is evidence of your strategy, skill and trading success. Will you claim a top 50 position on our Futures Leaderboard?…

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New OTC Portal pairs available for ETH, INJ and SOL

Now available to trade via RFQ within the OTC Portal: Base assetPairETHBTCINJUSDSOLBTC, ETH Here’s what you need to know about ETH, INJ and SOL: Ethereum (ETH) is a global, open-source platform for decentralized applications. Ethereum is a marketplace of financial services, games and apps that is trustless, decentralized and secure. ETH is the cryptocurrency powering…

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Expanded margin pairs available for INJ, OP, SNX and TIA!

We’re thrilled to announce that Kraken now supports new margin pairs for Optimism (OP), Synthetic (SNX), Injective (INJ) and Celestia (TIA)! Margin trading is now available for the below pairs for OP, SNX and TIA:  Pair basePair nameAvailable leverageLong Position Limit Short Position LimitOPOPUSD2X1400014000SNXSNXUSD2X75007500INJINJUSD3X16001600INJINJEUR2X15001500TIATIAUSD3X30003000 Here’s what you need to know about the assets: Optimism (OP) is…

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Kraken Pro presents: Futures Market Masters 2023

Show off your trading skills and win big. $100k big. It’s time — our 30-day futures trading contest has launched. Show off your futures trading skills and win a share of the $100,000 USD prize pool. Enrolment for the competition is now closed. When is the competition? The competition will run until November 28th, 2023.…

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Bivu Das joins Kraken as UK Managing Director

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Bivu Das as our new UK Managing Director. Bivu brings nearly two decades of commercial enterprise and fintech strategy development experience to Kraken. His arrival coincides with the UK making important strides to become a globally recognised crypto hub. Bivu will oversee our extensive network of regulatory,…

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Extending Super-Volume Rebate Tiers for Kraken Derivatives

September 19, 2023 | Derivatives We’re always looking for ways to improve your trading experience. That’s why we introduced Super-Volume Rebate Tiers, offering maker rebates for high-volume futures traders. Introducing Super-Volume Rebate Tiers We are pleased to announce all futures contracts will be eligible for rebates for clients with $250M+ 30-day trading volume.  Please review…

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Announcing Kraken’s liquidity pool for futures

Enhanced risk management We are always looking for ways to help our clients participate in crypto markets with greater confidence. So we are pleased to introduce our liquidity pool for futures, designed to minimize the need to unwind futures positions and improve the experience of Position Assignment System (PAS) participants. The liquidity pool provides additional…

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Trading for Sui (SUI) starts now!

May 3, 2023 | Asset Listings, Product We’re thrilled to announce that Sui (SUI) is now available on Kraken! Funding and trading SUI funding and trading are live. Add SUI to your Kraken account by navigating to Funding, selecting the asset, and hitting Deposit.  Already have SUI and a Kraken account? Click below to get…

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Kraken Derivatives goes Pro

We are excited to announce that futures trading is now available in our new Kraken Pro web interface. With this upgrade, we are providing an all-in-one crypto experience that unlocks powerful trading opportunities for our clients. Kraken Pro web users can now leverage the capital efficiency of futures to gain long and short exposure, trade…