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FLOW Trading And Staking Are Coming for the US and Canada!

We made FLOW available for trading and staking to the majority of our clients around the globe earlier this year. We’re delighted to announce that we’re now rolling these functions out for U.S. and Canadian residents on Tuesday, October 19! What Is FLOW? FLOW is the token for Flow, a blockchain pioneered by Dapper Labs…

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Kraken Daily Market Report for October 06 2021

BTC $55111. ↑7.0% $812.9M ETH $3585.4 ↑2.0% $370.0M USDT $1.0004 ↓0.01% $248.1M ADA $2.2171 ↓0.8% $70.7M USDC $0.9999 ↓0.01% $62.3M DOT $32.566 ↑3.6% $58.9M SOL $155.44 ↓5.7% $52.2M DOGE $0.2517 ↓0.08% $33.9M XTZ $7.8876 ↓0.7% $30.6M XRP $1.0796 ↓0.4% $26.5M LINK $26.821 ↓1.5% $24.8M LTC $181.88 ↑4.6% $19.2M ATOM $35.250 ↓4.2% $18.9M ALGO $1.8354 ↓6.1% $15.9M AXS $127.73 ↓4.1% $12.7M SC $0.0188 ↑2.4% $12.2M OMG $14.591 ↓6.0% $9.73M XMR $288.5 ↑6.6% $9.53M BCH $617.97 ↑3.6% $8.73M XLM $0.3406 ↑6.8% $7.06M MATIC $1.2633 ↓4.1% $6.82M FIL $70.992 ↑0.19% $6.48M DYDX $22.615 ↓0.4% $6.36M MINA $4.59 ↓2.3% $5.75M DAI $1.0003 ↓0.03% $5.75M KSM $332.83 ↓1.4% $5.49M UNI $25.178 ↓1.9% $5.16M EOS $4.8036 ↑1.5% $5.1M TRX $0.0953 ↓0.9% $4.26M FLOW $19.298 ↓4.9% $3.83M AAVE $309.15 ↑0.3% $3.5M DASH $186.62 ↑2.0% $2.91M MOVR $312.00 ↑1.0% $2.86M ETC $54.305 ↓0.14% $2.79M OCEAN $0.7931 ↑5.5% $2.79M KAVA $6.2381 ↓2.8% $2.73M KEEP $0.4214 ↑3.1% $2.33M QTUM $13.410 ↑1.0% $2.33M ICX $2.2180 ↓3.7% $2.0M SNX $10.22 ↓2.5% $1.92M NANO $5.3298 ↓4.0% $1.89M MLN $133.27 ↓2.7% $1.77M CRV $2.7678 ↓5.2% $1.74M CQT $1.4280 ↑2.0% $1.71M GRT $0.7239 ↓4.4% $1.67M YFI $32100. ↑0.23% $1.6M ZEC $124.95 ↑1.3% $1.59M STORJ $1.3154 ↓1.8% $1.41M BADGER $25.826 ↑8.4% $1.35M WAVES $26.957 ↓2.2% $1.31M ENJ $1.629 ↓4.3% $1.31M MANA $0.7649 ↓2.1% $1.09M REN $1.1275 ↓6.8% $1.04M COMP $303.94 ↓1.9% $1.04M PAXG $1765.5 ↓0.11% $990K…

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Kraken Commits to Funding Open-Source Rust Bitcoin Development

September 24, 2021 | News Kraken is thrilled to announce a commitment to fund Bitcoin’s open-source Rust development ecosystem. In memory of late Bitcoin Rust contributor and former Kraken employee, Tamás Blummer, our internal Tamás Blummer Memorial Fund aims to accelerate the development of Bitcoin Rust libraries. A pioneering entrepreneur involved in several Bitcoin companies,…

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Testing Crypto Payments & Staking at Kraken

By: Brett McLain, Director of Engineering – Crypto, Fiat, Staking If you’re interested in cryptocurrencies, payments, or staking and want to help build the financial system of the future, the funding engineering team @ Kraken is hiring! When Kraken launched almost a decade ago, only four cryptocurrencies were supported: BTC, LTC, XRP and NMC.  Today,…

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Kraken Staking Rewards Top $100 Million

July 27, 2021 | Uncategorized We are thrilled to announce that, year-to-date, Kraken has paid out more than $100 million in rewards to our clients via our first-in-class staking service.  Recognized as the global leader in secure, on-chain staking, Kraken has seen the total number of assets staked on our platform rise from $1 billion…

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Kraken Breaks New Ground with First-of-its-Kind Parachain Auction Platform

Clients looking to support their favorite Kusama projects can now, for the first time, participate in Parachain Slot Auctions (or ‘Parachain Auctions’ for short) directly from the Kraken platform.  Key points to note:1. Parachain auctions are not available to residents of the US, Canada, Japan and Australia. 2. Only verified Intermediate accounts and higher are…

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NFTs: How Licensing Technology Furthers Art’s Revolution

Humans have always loved making and displaying art. Deep within a cave in modern-day Spain lies a Neanderthal hand stencil that scientists have radiocarbon dated to 64,000 years – it’s the oldest known example of art anywhere in the world.  Over the past 60,000 years, human creative expression has expanded into a plethora of mediums,…

Markets

Out With The Old, In With The New: Market Structure Analysis

February 19, 2021 | Kraken Intelligence VIP clients are the first to receive Kraken Intelligence reports. If you’d like early access to our latest research, sign up to trade with us today or ask your account manager for more details. Retail investors have more information and more tools at their fingertips than ever before.  But…

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Flow (FLOW) Trading Starts January 27

Update: For FLOW unlocking schedule please refer to our updated Support Centre article. We are pleased to announce that Flow (FLOW) trading will launch Wednesday January 27 at approximately 15:30 UTC.  At launch, only FLOW tokens that have been earned through staking rewards can be traded. Clients who purchased FLOW in the ICO and claimed…