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We believe the next evolution of financial infrastructure won't just be driven by humans clicking buttons or developers writing API wrappers. It will be driven by autonomous AI agents.
Customers now expect financial services to operate continuously, without the delays and frictions associated with legacy systems. For businesses, this shift presents a clear opportunity, and significant operational complexity.
By Thomas Perfumo, Kraken Chief Economist Bitcoin just minted its 20 millionth coin. With only 1 million left to mine – and those spread across more than a century of halvings to come – the supply of Bitcoin is, for all practical purposes, effectively fixed....
xStocks will power the permissionless infrastructure layer supporting Nasdaq's issuer-sponsored equity tokens, enabling transfers seamlessly between regulated capital markets and decentralized blockchain ecosystems in eligible jurisdictions
A borderless market requires a borderless way of working. Kraken’s fully asynchronous model keeps work advancing across regions while reinforcing trust, accountability and real connection.
Unifies billions of dollars in onchain tokenized equity liquidity across Ethereum and Solana, connecting traditional market depth with DeFi functionality
A token that doesn't move isn't a market. On the metrics that define real usage — unique holders, transaction volume, and multi-venue flow — xStocks is the clear leader in tokenized equities.
The window between "we're ready to launch" and "we've launched well" is where most of the real work happens.
Trade U.S. stocks and ETFs within Kraken's unified multi-asset trading environment
Historic milestone enables direct access to the U.S. payments system, strengthening Kraken’s institutional offering
You already know how to make crypto work for you. But there's a good chance your paycheck is still landing in a traditional bank, sitting there, doing nothing, while the bank quietly puts it to work for themselves.
Dogfooding at Kraken goes beyond everyday usage. It is reinforced through structured, hands-on experience.
We are updating the pairs eligible for our maker fee incentive program to optimize liquidity support across our trading pairs.
Kraken Pro expanded its edge with realized P&L insights, new futures integration with Insilico, VIP private sessions, the launch of Kraken Flexline, xStocks on margin, trading incentives, enhanced UI personalization, and expanded market listings — all designed to give traders more clarity, flexibility, and control...
This integration brings Kraken’s fiat ↔ crypto infrastructure to Onramper’s aggregation platform.
Over the course of three panels, our teams sat alongside investors, founders, and builders for some of the most grounded conversations we've had in a long time. What does it actually take to launch, scale, and last?
Crypto holders have long faced a frustrating trade-off: hold your assets for the long term, or sell them to access liquidity. Kraken Flexline solves this.
New xStocks perpetual futures contracts give eligible traders (non-U.S. clients in over 110 countries) 24/7 leveraged access to tokenized representations of major equity indices, gold-backed ETFs, and leading public companies.
Kraken Pro now supports margin trading on xStocks, giving active traders the ability to amplify exposure to tokenized equities using the same battle-tested margin infrastructure that powers our crypto markets.
