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Kraken Acquires Crypto Derivatives Trading Platform and Index Provider, Crypto Facilities, in Nine-figure Deal (Official Press Release)

SAN FRANCISCO, February 4th, 2019 – Kraken, consistently rated the most secure digital asset exchange and leader in euro volume since 2013, today announced the acquisition of Crypto Facilities, a world-leading, regulated cryptocurrency trading platform and index provider.  The combination creates a global leader in cryptocurrency spot and futures trading. London-based Crypto Facilities offers individuals…

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Preparation for the EOS MainNet launch

May 30, 2018 | News On June 2 2018, EOS will go from Ethereum to the EOS MainNet chain, with the token snapshot scheduled for 22:00 UTC (3:00 pm PT). In preparation for the MainNet launch, we will take EOS funding offline starting from June 1 2018 at 00:00 UTC (5:00 pm PT on May…

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Kraken Launches EOS Trading

July 1, 2017 | Product Kraken is pleased to announce support for EOS trading! The EOS platform is designed to scale the mainstream development of decentralized applications for large businesses, and claims to the first platform to do so. Which EOS Pairs are Available For Trading? EOS-Ethereum (EOS/ETH) EOS-Bitcoin (EOS/XBT) EOS-U.S. Dollar (EOS/USD) EOS-Euro (EOS/EUR) How…

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Kraken to Open Gnosis (GNO) Trading

April 28, 2017 | Product Kraken is pleased to announce that trading for Gnosis (GNO) tokens will launch shortly after GNO tokens are released to ICO auction buyers on Monday May 1, 17:09:49 UTC. Order books will be enabled sometime in the few hours before tokens are released and traders can start placing buy orders…

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ETF Postmortem

March 15, 2017 | News Last week Kraken tweeted a poll before the Bitcoin ETF decision asking followers what they thought the outcome would be. We received over 400 votes, with 58% incorrectly predicting approval and 42% correctly predicting that the ETF would not be approved. Did it matter? Perhaps we should have asked whether…

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Happy holidays and happy new year!

Best wishes to all our clients and the crypto community for happy holidays and a great new year! Here’s a look back at some of the major Kraken milestones of 2016. It was a year of major growth for Kraken with four landmark acquisition deals and many new exciting digital assets added to the platform.…

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Winners of Kraken’s investment challenge announced

We would like to thank The Economist and all thirteen teams that participated in the Kraken investment challenge to optimize a $1 million, 5-year bitcoin-ether portfolio. We enjoyed reviewing the variety of approaches taken across proposals. The videos and papers have already generated organic conversation among viewers that will help encourage beginners to learn more…