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Table stakes: Compliance is essential for crypto platforms

Kraken is committed to ensuring that we comply with applicable laws and regulations. Our commitment to compliance, and evolving to keep up with regulatory change, positions us to advance our mission of accelerating global crypto adoption to promote financial freedom. Proactive regulatory adaptation Kraken has been proactive in adapting to regulatory changes. For instance, in…

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SWELL is available for trading!

November 7, 2024 | Asset Listings We’re thrilled to announce that $SWELL is now available for trading on Kraken! Funding and trading Trading for $SWELL will be live as of 14:00 PM UTC today, November 7, 2024. To add an asset to your Kraken account, navigate to Funding, select the asset you’re after, and hit…

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Puffer Finance is available for trading!

October 14, 2024 | Asset Listings, Product We’re thrilled to announce that Puffer Finance ($PUFFER) is now available for trading on Kraken! Funding and trading Trading for $PUFFER is live as of 12:30 PM UTC October 14, 2024. To add an asset to your Kraken account, navigate to Funding, select the asset you’re after, and…

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13 years ago: The Kraken emerged

In 2011, we embarked on a quest with a simple yet ambitious mission: to accelerate the adoption of cryptocurrency so that you and the rest of the world can achieve financial freedom and inclusion. It was the dawn of a commitment to security, innovation and transparency. Today, we stand tall as one of the largest,…

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The Kraken employee value proposition

Kraken is more than just a company — we’re a culture.  We’re building a bridge from a broken legacy system to a future rooted in crypto. We recognize that to get there, traditional structures of work have to evolve, too. In celebration of our 13th anniversary, we built an employee value proposition (EVP): to provide candidates…

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Accelerating new listings at Kraken

Kraken is excited to announce that we’re accelerating our new asset listing process. We’ve created a new listings page to standardize our listing process for project teams and deliver greater transparency into our asset listing roadmap for the crypto community. We’ve also simplified the application form, enabling teams to easily articulate their projects’ key characteristics…

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Simple, secure, powerful: Introducing Kraken Wallet

Your easy-to-use onchain gateway Whether you’re a Kraken client or not, you can use multichain Kraken Wallet as your bridge to the decentralized financial system. Built on our core values of privacy and security, Kraken Wallet provides self-custody of digital assets and data by providing an onchain experience users will love – backed by Kraken’s…

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How Kraken Wallet addresses challenges in mobile crypto security

We believe that the most secure mobile crypto wallet is one that overcomes the inherent constraints of its mobile operating system. For instance, on iOS, Apple’s CryptoKit doesn’t support the secp256k1 elliptic curve, a standard for Bitcoin, Ethereum and many other blockchains. This limitation restricts developers from utilizing the secure element of devices for key…

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Welcoming Art Blocks to our NFT marketplace!

Art Blocks is perhaps most well known for the Chromie Squiggle by Snowfro collection, project #0. A 10,000-piece collection created in October 2020, it has generated over 75,000 ETH ($171M USD) in trading volume. Art Blocks’ three main categories 1. Curated CollectionsThese collections are carefully selected by the Art Blocks team for their innovation, artistic…