Today Kraken is pleased to launch support for trading Augur Reputation Tokens (REP). The Augur team expressed their excitement for this important step in the overall Augur launch, saying We all know that Kraken is one of the top exchanges in the space. This is...
Last week the Ethereum hard fork went smoothly with the chain reimbursing DAO investors becoming dominant very quickly. As stated by email and on our blog (http://blog.kraken.com/post/147619017767), ETH balances on Kraken after the fork are tokens of this dominant chain. However, the competing chain that...
Kraken today became the first and only exchange to offer clients Ether (ETH) Dark Pool trading. The Ether Dark Pool allows clients to discreetly place large ether orders without exposing their intentions to the public, lit order book. The introduction of Kraken’s Ether Dark Pool...
We’ve added a great new feature to margin trading. It is called “Position Settlement” and it essentially gives you the option to “cash out” of margin positions. Even if you think leveraged margin trading is not for you, read on, because this feature opens up...
You can now access the full power of the Ethereum network from Kraken’s platform! We have added a data field for ether withdrawal addresses that is capable of interacting directly with the Ethereum blockchain, including existing DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations) and existing smart contracts. Support...
Today Kraken launched with ether trading. Ethers are the currency of the Ethereum network, which is a decentralized platform for executing programmable smart contracts. Out of the gate it was Kraken’s highest volume launch to date, with over 3 million ethers traded in the first...