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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,…

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Meet The Kraken Bank Executive Team: COO Michael Giorgio

When is the last time a bank put customer needs, security and open access to all first? David Kinitsky, Kraken Bank CEO, outlined eight reasons why consumers need a customized banking structure that modernizes the products and services we all utilize on a daily basis. To design the blockchain-based system that will be “more secure than…

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Oxidizing Kraken: Improving Kraken Infrastructure Using Rust

Simon Chemouil  –  Director of Engineering, Core Backend For more than two years now, Kraken’s Core Backend team has been using Rust to modernize services originally written in PHP, while building new products, expanding the feature set and supporting the ever expanding increase in cryptocurrency trading activity. Hi 👋! I’m Simon, the Director of Engineering…

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Welcome to Kraken Engineering

At Kraken, Engineering and technology innovation have been the lifeblood of our business since our inception. For more than ten years, Kraken has been committed to building a crypto platform with the highest standards for security, performance and reliability. In that time, our people and systems have had to evolve under the enormous pressures of…

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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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Kraken Donates $100k to Coin Center

February 1, 2021 | News Kraken is excited to announce a $100k donation to Coin Center, one of the leading non-profit advocacy groups focused on the public policy issues facing digital asset technologies. This latest donation is part of Kraken’s ongoing commitment to the excellent work Coin Center does to promote research, educate regulators and…

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Kraken Brings Spot Prices to DeFi with New Chainlink Node

We are excited to announce that we will be making Kraken’s spot prices available to Decentralized Finance applications and developers on Ethereum and other leading blockchains by running our own Chainlink node. As one of the world’s largest and most liquid cryptocurrency exchanges, we feel it is critical to make our cryptocurrency data accessible directly…

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Hosting the Bitcoin Whitepaper

January 26, 2021 | News In solidarity with other leading companies in the cryptocurrency community, we are posting the Bitcoin white paper to our official blog.  We believe that Bitcoin is open-source software, and that maintaining access to this document is essential to educating others about the financial freedoms the technology offers.  We stand opposed…