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13 years ago: The Kraken emerged

In 2011, we embarked on a quest with a simple yet ambitious mission: to accelerate the adoption of cryptocurrency so that you and the rest of the world can achieve financial freedom and inclusion. It was the dawn of a commitment to security, innovation and transparency. Today, we stand tall as one of the largest,…

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Kraken wins big at two Australian crypto industry award shows

We are delighted to announce that Kraken has been recognized across multiple categories in two recent Australian crypto industry award ceremonies: Finder’s Crypto Trading Platform Awards 2024 and WeMoney’s 2024 Crypto Awards.  Finder, an award-winning financial comparison site, named Kraken Best Overall Crypto Trading Platform for Australian clients during 2024. This determination came after their…

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Trading for MNT, KUJI and HONEY starts July 3

We’re thrilled to announce that Mantle (MNT), Kujira (KUJI), and Hivemapper (HONEY) are now available on Kraken! Funding and trading MNT, KUJI, and HONEY funding starts now and trading will be live on July 3, 2024.  Add your token to your Kraken account by navigating to Funding, selecting the asset, and hitting Deposit.  Make sure…

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Trading for TAO, TRAC and OSMO starts June 25

We’re thrilled to announce that Bittensor (TAO), OriginTrail (TRAC) and Osmosis (OSMO) are now available on Kraken! Funding and trading TAO, TRAC and OSMO funding starts now and trading will be live on June 25.  Add your token to your Kraken account by navigating to Funding, selecting the asset, and hitting Deposit.  Make sure to…

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Trading for TREMP, TNSR, ZEUS and more starts now

We’re thrilled to announce that Wen (WEN), Jeo Boden (BODEN), Doland Tremp (TREMP), Tensor (TNSR), Zeus Network (ZEUS) and Nosana (NOS) are now available on Kraken! Funding and trading WEN, BODEN, TREMP, TNSR, ZEUS and NOS  funding and trading are live. Add these tokens to your Kraken account by navigating to Funding, selecting the asset,…

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Trading for AEVO, ARKM, ENA and more available now

We’re thrilled to announce that Aevo (AEVO), Arkham (ARKM),  AltLayer (ALT), Ether.fi (ETHFI), Ethena (ENA), Maple (MPL), Safe (SAFE) and ZetaChain (ZETA) are now available on Kraken! Funding and trading AEVO, ARKM, ALT, ETHFI, ENA, MPL, SAFE and ZETA funding and trading are live. Add these tokens to your Kraken account by navigating to Funding,…

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Why liquidity is an important metric in crypto markets

Trading volume has long been the default metric cited by analysts, media pundits and aggregators to rank cryptocurrency exchanges. While volume provides a high-level overview of marketplace activity, it can be faked to create the impression there’s more legitimate trading activity on a marketplace than there really is.  The exchange can simply print non-existent trades…

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Trading for Beam (BEAM) starts April 11 – deposit now

We’re thrilled to announce that Beam (BEAM) is now available on Kraken! Important: Kraken will not be supporting the migration of MC tokens to BEAM. If you hold MC tokens and wish to migrate them, please follow the instructions provided in this tutorial and FAQ: Beam Token Migration Tutorial and FAQ. Alternatively, you can directly…