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Bitcoin Cash and a Critical Alert for Bitcoin Margin Traders

On August 1 2017 at 12:20 pm UTC a small community of Bitcoin users is planning a hard fork from Bitcoin to an alternative protocol called “Bitcoin Cash” (BCH). Bitcoin Cash is expected to be a minority chain, with the vast majority of the Bitcoin community remaining on the chain that activates Segregated Witness and,…

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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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Kraken adds USD, GBP, and EUR funding options!

April 18, 2017 | Product Kraken is pleased to offer new international wire options to fund accounts with US dollars (USD), British pounds (GBP), and euros (EUR). Deposit details Availability: All service areas except the US, which is already covered by domestic USD payments Start time: immediately Currencies: USD, GBP, EUR Payment type: International SWIFT…

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Kraken opens Dash (DASH) trading

April 12, 2017 | Product Kraken is pleased to announce support for Dash (DASH). Dash is the fourth most valuable digital asset by market cap and recently experienced a huge surge in price (6x gain) and trading volume (10x gain). Dash has one of the fastest growing peer-to-peer networks and supports both “private” and “instant”…

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Monero (XMR) Margin Trading Now Available

March 23, 2017 | Product Since launching Monero (XMR) on January 2nd, trade volumes have been steadily increasing and we are ready to enable margin trading for Monero pairs. Which currency pairs and leverages are available? XMR/XBT: 2x,3x XMR/USD: 2x XMR/EUR: 2x What are our XMR limits? XMR limits depend on the verification level of…

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Kraken launches Monero trading

January 2, 2017 | Product Today Kraken is launching support for trading Monero (XMR). Monero is one of the leading cryptocurrencies that has seen huge 40x market cap growth in 2016 and trades with high volume and liquidity. Monero is built on the core principles of privacy, decentralization, open development, scaleability, and fungibility. You can…

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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.…