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Kraken is thrilled to announce that Miha Grčar, a pioneer of the cryptocurrency exchange sector, will officially be joining our team as Head of Business Development. For the better part of the last decade, Miha has helped Bitstamp gain recognition as a licensed financial institution in Europe, experience that will prove integral as he helps…
The Financial Crime Enforcement Network’s (FinCEN) rules already prohibit financial institutions from opening accounts for homeless, unhoused and refugee populations who don’t have physical mailing addresses. Now, FinCEN has proposed a new rule that would prohibit those who are fortunate enough to have accounts from even sending money to these people, if that money is…
December 17, 2020 | Product We’re pleased to announce that The Graph (GRT) trading is now available! Note: GRT trading is not available in the US and Canada at this time. What is The Graph (GRT)? GRT is an Ethereum (ERC-20) token that powers The Graph, which is a decentralized protocol for searching and indexing…
Kraken CEO Jesse Powell has made it his mission to ease the adoption curve for new cryptocurrency investors and traders – and that vision is having an industry-wide impact. In fact, Coindesk, one of the market’s leading publications, has recognized Jesse by selecting him as one of its “Most Influential” people for 2020. The list,…
Kraken is excited to announce new investments and forthcoming features designed to bring the benefits of Bitcoin’s Lightning Network to our global exchange. Building on Bitcoin’s blockchain technology, the Lightning Network will help the world’s largest cryptocurrency scale to process millions of transactions per second, a leap forward enabling trades to be completed at a…
We’re excited to list 2 new trading assets and one new staking asset starting December 15 at approximately 13:30 UTC. New Trading Assets Decentraland (MANA) – Decentraland is a decentralized virtual world built on Ethereum that people create buildings and games in. You can own digital land and wearables (clothing for your avatar) by purchasing…
Kraken is pleased to announce our support of the Flare network and Spark (FLR) token airdrop for XRP holders. The first thing to understand about this airdrop is that it is unusual because there is a very large gap of time between the snapshot of XRP balances and the launch of the Flare network and…
December 10, 2020 | 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. Kraken Intelligence, our team of in-house research experts, has released its Market Recap & Outlook…
December 4, 2020 | Product We are pleased to announce the launch of a new feature that has been requested by many of our API traders – Cancel Only Mode. API traders frequently update their orders, adding or canceling orders in response to changes in price or the order book. Since their trading strategy depends…
Kraken is excited to announce that clients can stake their Ethereum (ETH) on Kraken to receive rewards of approximately 5% to 17%. The network reward is variable and 17% is currently the highest possible yearly yield. ETH staking launches Friday December 4 at approximately 13:30 UTC. Staking is enabled on the Ethereum network as part…
