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Meet Kraken’s New Managing Director for Australia – Jonathon Miller

On January 14th, Kraken acquired Australia’s longest-running crypto service provider Bit Trade. Bit Trade offers a multi-cryptocurrency spot exchange as well as an over-the-counter (OTC) service that provides deep liquidity to professional institutions and traders. With this acquisition, Kraken will focus on being the premier crypto service in Australia with the best AUD liquidity, trading…

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The Weekly Hash – January 20 – 24

January 27, 2020 | News Check out the most important happenings this past week in the world of crypto, brought to you by the experts at Kraken. This digest is prepared for informative purposes only and does not represent an investment recommendation or investment advice. Please see our full disclaimer at the bottom for more…

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The Weekly Hash – January 13 – 17

January 20, 2020 | News Check out the biggest happenings in the past week of the crypto industry, brought to you by the experts at Kraken. This digest is prepared for informative purposes only and does not represent an investment recommendation or investment advice. Please see our full disclaimer at the bottom for more information.…

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The Weekly Hash – December 30 – January 4

January 6, 2020 | Uncategorized Check out the latest happenings in the world of crypto, brought to you by the experts at Kraken. This digest is prepared for informative purposes only and does not represent an investment recommendation or investment advice. Please see our full disclaimer at the bottom for more information. See below all…

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The Weekly Hash – December 23 – 27

December 30, 2019 | Uncategorized Check out all the important happenings of the past week in the world of crypto, brought to you by the experts at Kraken. This digest is prepared for informative purposes only and does not represent an investment recommendation or investment advice. Please see our full disclaimer at the bottom for…

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Bitcoin Volatility Report for November 2019

December 9, 2019 | Kraken Intelligence Kraken Intelligence, our team of in-house research experts, has released the Bitcoin Volatility Report for November, 2019. Key Takeaways Bitcoin’s volatility fell to a 2-month low of 43.6% before advancing to a final November print of 51.2%, a -32.5% decline month-over-month. Monthly trading volumes dropped -13% and the price…

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A Quick Primer on Funding Rates

Funding rates are a new concept that only exist in perpetual futures contracts. Because they are critical to the operation of a healthy perpetual futures contract, we thought a quick primer on funding rates would be useful. To try out our Futures Platform with a demo account or a real one, click here.Quick Summary: The…

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Interchange founders Dan Held and Clark Moody on Kraken Acquisition

Earlier today, Kraken announced that we have acquired Interchange – a leading portfolio reconciliation tool for institutional traders. As part of the acquisition, we’re excited to bring over the Interchange team, including co-founders and crypto veterans Dan Held and Clark Moody. Below Dan and Clark get into why this acquisition made so much sense to…

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The Markets Series – Part 1: Markets & Orderbooks

For several years, we’ve found that the crypto industry invites plenty of misunderstanding of basic market structure. This often results in confusion, frustration, and heated debate. We get it. Markets are complicated and not all of us have the fortune to dedicate ourselves to studying them. So we’ve created The Markets Series, an easy introduction…

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The Weekly Hash – July 15-19

July 22, 2019 | Uncategorized Check out all the important happenings this week in the world of crypto, presented by the experts at Kraken. This digest is prepared for informative purposes only and does not represent an investment recommendation or investment advice. Please see our full disclaimer at the bottom for more information. See below…