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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.…

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On the imminent Ethereum (ETH) hard fork

The Ethereum foundation is planning a hard fork at block 2463000, expected to be reached on Tuesday October 18th 2016 PDT. The fork introduces changes to help protect against the recent DOS attacks on the network. The fork is expected to go very smoothly with the DOS-protected fork quickly becoming the dominant chain while the…

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Kraken enables Augur (REP) margin trading

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:…