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FLOW Trading And Staking Are Coming for the US and Canada!

We made FLOW available for trading and staking to the majority of our clients around the globe earlier this year. We’re delighted to announce that we’re now rolling these functions out for U.S. and Canadian residents on Tuesday, October 19! What Is FLOW? FLOW is the token for Flow, a blockchain pioneered by Dapper Labs…

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DYDX Trading Starts September 14 – Deposit Now

September 9, 2021 | News We are excited to announce that Kraken is now supporting dYdX (DYDX).  Deposits and withdrawals are available starting now.  Trading will begin at approximately 15:30 UTC on September 14. Note: Trading is not available to residents of the USA, Canada, Australia and Japan. What is dYdX? (DYDX) dYdX is a…

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BAND, INJ, MIR and 1INCH trading starts August 10 – Deposit Now

Kraken is supporting four new assets: Band Protocol (BAND), Injective Protocol (INJ), Mirror Protocol (MIR) and 1inch Network (1INCH) Deposits for all four assets are available starting now  Trading will begin on August 10 at approximately 15:30 UTC for all assets  Note: Trading is not available to residents of the USA, Canada, Australia and Japan.…

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The new Kraken app is here!

You asked and we delivered.  With the new Kraken app, getting crypto just got a whole lot easier. We’ve streamlined the buying and selling process, added more convenient payment methods, and wrapped it all in a sleek, user friendly design.   The app is now available in the US and the rest of the world* for…

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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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Kraken Brings Spot Prices to DeFi with New Chainlink Node

We are excited to announce that we will be making Kraken’s spot prices available to Decentralized Finance applications and developers on Ethereum and other leading blockchains by running our own Chainlink node. As one of the world’s largest and most liquid cryptocurrency exchanges, we feel it is critical to make our cryptocurrency data accessible directly…