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We are pleased to announce the launch of margin trading for Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Ripple (XRP). The addition expands our margin offering to 8 assets, including Bitcoin (XBT), Ethereum (ETH), Ethereum Classic (ETC), Augur (REP), Monero (XMR), and Tether (USDT). Which currency pairs and leverage amounts are available? Bitcoin CashBCH/XBT – 2xBCH/USD – 2x,…
NOTE: BSV was delisted from Kraken on April 22, 2019 and trading on all BSV pairs ceased on April 29, 2019. The recent Bitcoin Cash hard fork resulted in two (for now) viable chains: Bitcoin Cash (following the Bitcoin Cash ABC protocol and roadmap published by bitcoincash.org) Bitcoin SV (following the Bitcoin Cash SV protocol…
We are pleased to announce that Kraken will list Tezos (XTZ). XTZ trading starts Tuesday October 16! Trading and funding start timeThe approximate launch time globally is: PT: Tuesday October 16 at 8:00 amET: Tuesday October 16 at 11:00 amUTC: Tuesday October 16 at 3:00 pmCEST: Tuesday October 16 at 5:00 pmHKT: Tuesday October 16…
We are pleased to announce that Kraken will list two new digital assets – Cardano (ADA) and Quantum (QTUM). Trading and funding start timeTrading and funding in the two assets will launch simultaneously. The approximate launch time globally is: PST: Friday September 28 at 6:00 amEST: Friday September 28 at 9:00 amUTC: Friday September 28…
Customer service is deeply important to Kraken. It is core to our brand and company culture. Security first and customer service second. We must set a positive example for this industry, and do things better than the services we seek to replace. If we take care of our clients, they’ll take care of us. —…
The title is a nod to a recent article in which a reporter covering market structure for Bloomberg News inexplicably fails to comprehend basic market concepts such as arbitrage, order books and currency pegs. More troubling, however, was the applause from other “journalist” lemmings as they followed in walking their reputations off a cliff. It…
May 15, 2018 | News Last night at the Coin Center annual dinner in New York City, Jerry Brito announced Kraken’s donation of $1,000,000, and our pledge to match any additional gifts during the month of May, up to another $1,000,000. The great work that Coin Center does is extremely important and referenced by governments…
Introduction Since 2011, Kraken has been a leader in the industry, actively developing and driving multiple self-regulatory organizations (DATA, JADA), and working with regulators to enact fair and effective rules to govern the evolving blockchain industry. In fact, had we not laid off half the team in 2014, our legal bills would have bankrupted the…
February 20, 2018 | Product Previously, in order to help mitigate strain on our platform caused by exponential growth, we delisted some of our trading pairs and suspended all advanced order types (you can read our blog post about it here: https://blog.kraken.com/post/1234). Since then we have made many infrastructure improvements to better handle load and…
August 21, 2017 | News In order to help mitigate the strain on our platform caused by recent exponential growth, we are delisting some of our illiquid trading pairs and temporarily suspending all advanced order types. These changes will go into effect on Tuesday, August 22 around 6 am UTC (Monday August 21 around 11…
