Kraken Reacts to Market Selloff

Kraken works hard to maintain a secure and fair exchange for all clients and to ensure traders are always freely able to execute orders – even amid the more volatile moments common to the growing digital asset market.  The digital asset market remains unique among financial...

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Kraken Backs Launch of Venture Capital Fund

Kraken is supporting the launch of a new independent initiative to actively invest in early stage cryptocurrency and fintech startups.  Kraken Ventures, a global investment operation with a presence in Austin, Berlin, Hong Kong, London, New York, and San Francisco will provide the necessary resources...

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Kraken Deploys System Upgrades After Surge in Crypto Interest

On January 29, there was unprecedented demand for Kraken services that far exceeded our surge prediction modeling.  For context, $56 billion was traded on our platform in January of this year – more than all the volume transacted for the full year of 2019. This...

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Kraken Donates $100k to Coin Center

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...

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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...

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Hosting the Bitcoin Whitepaper

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...

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Industry News

Setting the record straight

It is hard to put a price on vindication. An arbitrator did. But if this were only about a lawsuit, I would not be writing this letter.

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