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Global digital asset exchange Kraken is pleased to announce the acquisition of the award-winning wallet funding service Glidera (https://www.glidera.io). Chicago-based Glidera is the world’s first non-custodial buying and selling service for wallets that has grown quickly since its launch in 2015 to integrate with 10 of the top bitcoin wallets. The terms of the deal…
October 27, 2016 | News, Product Zcash (ZEC) trading is coming this Friday, October 28! What is Zcash? Perhaps the most hotly anticipated digital asset of 2016, Zcash has a highly regarded development team and investment from major VC firms (Pantera, Fenbushi, and The Digital Currency Group) and Bitcoin VIPs (Roger Ver, Erik Voorhees, Barry…
October 11, 2016 | News, Product Augur (REP) margin trading is now available on Kraken! Read on for the details. What currency pairs and leverages are available? REP/XBT, REP/ETH, REP/EUR: 2x What are the REP limits? The REP limits depend on the verification level of the account as follows: Tier 1: 200 REP Tier 2:…
Today Kraken is pleased to launch support for trading Augur Reputation Tokens (REP). The Augur team expressed their excitement for this important step in the overall Augur launch, saying We all know that Kraken is one of the top exchanges in the space. This is more important: we are personal fans of the overall Kraken…
Last week the Ethereum hard fork went smoothly with the chain reimbursing DAO investors becoming dominant very quickly. As stated by email and on our blog (http://blog.kraken.com/post/147619017767), ETH balances on Kraken after the fork are tokens of this dominant chain. However, the competing chain that does not reimburse DAO investors remains viable with a significant…
Less than six months after acquiring both Coinsetter and Cavirtex in a landmark deal, we are pleased today to announce the acquisition of CleverCoin, one of the first Netherlands-based bitcoin exchanges. The addition of CleverCoin cements Kraken’s position as the undisputed leading exchange in Europe with the arrival of thousands of new clients, while other…
May 26, 2016 | News Kraken will add The DAO tokens to the growing list of assets supported on its global, cutting edge and low fee trading platform. The DAO tokens will trade under the abbreviation “DAO” with the following trade pairs available at launch: DAO/XBT (bitcoin) DAO/ETH (ether) DAO/EUR (euro) DAO/USD (US dollar) DAO/CAD…
Kraken today became the first and only exchange to offer clients Ether (ETH) Dark Pool trading. The Ether Dark Pool allows clients to discreetly place large ether orders without exposing their intentions to the public, lit order book. The introduction of Kraken’s Ether Dark Pool comes in the wake of ether’s rapid rise in popularity.…
We’ve added a great new feature to margin trading. It is called “Position Settlement” and it essentially gives you the option to “cash out” of margin positions. Even if you think leveraged margin trading is not for you, read on, because this feature opens up new ways to use margin that may benefit you! What…
We have many important updates to share, and we encourage everyone to read the complete list of updates, including a change to trading fees and price precision. Extension of Free Deposits to April 1 Kraken has seen a more than 2x increase in the number of new accounts (not including the migrated accounts) since announcing…
