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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,…
July 20, 2021 | News We are excited to announce that Bifrost secured the fifth parachain slot on Kusama – Congratulations! Slot 5 Winner Bifrost (BNC) – Bifrost provides staking liquidity to anyone accessing its network. This means token holders can stake any cryptocurrency, such as DOT or ETH, on the Bifrost platform and receive…
July 19, 2021 | Uncategorized In 10 years, Kraken has grown from an aspiration into a global company. Our 2,000 “Krakenites” serve more than 7 million clients around the globe. To celebrate, we’ve launched #10yearsofKraken on social media. Keep an eye on our official Twitter handle @krakenfx and our Instagram account as we take a…
July 13, 2021 | News We are excited to announce that Khala secured the fourth parachain slot on Kusama – Congratulations! Slot 4 Winner Khala (K-PHA) – Phala Network is a Kusama parachain that tackles the issue of trust in the computation cloud. This blockchain is a trustless computation platform that enables massive cloud processing…
VIP clients are the first to receive Kraken Intelligence reports. If you’d like access to our newsletter or want to start trading, get the resources crypto investors worldwide trust. The crypto markets were brimming with excitement to start 2021. But as we enter the dog days of summer, bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are flatlining, sentiment…
July 6, 2021 | News We are excited to announce that Shiden secured the third parachain slot on Kusama – Congratulations! Slot 3 Winner Shiden (SDN) – A smart contract platform for decentralized applications (dapps) on the Kusama network. Shiden is built to support “layer 2” solutions, which refers to secondary frameworks built on top…
June 29, 2021 | News We are excited to announce that Moonbeam’s Moonriver Network secured the second parachain slot on Kusama – Congratulations! Slot 2 Winner Moonriver (MOVR) – A smart contract blockchain that supports Ethereum decentralized applications, Moonriver is intended to operate on Kusama as a parachain and provide a full EVM implementation, a…
We are excited to announce that Acala’s Karura Network secured the first ever parachain slot on Kusama – Congratulations! Slot 1 Winner Karura (KAR) – Described as a Decentralized Finance (DeFi) hub and stablecoin platform for the Kusama network, Karura will operate on Kusama as a parachain and aims to host several different functions on…
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…
