Meet The Kraken Bank Executive Team: COO Michael Giorgio

When is the last time a bank put customer needs, security and open access to all first? David Kinitsky, Kraken Bank CEO, outlined eight reasons why consumers need a customized banking structure that modernizes the products and services we all utilize on a daily basis. To...

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Kraken Commits Funding to Ethereum 2.0 Transition with New Gitcoin Giving

Kraken is excited to announce it will match up to $50,000 in donations to open-source Ethereum infrastructure projects as part of Gitcoin’s latest donation drive starting March 10. Over two weeks, Gitcoin, a platform for fundraising built on the Ethereum blockchain, will match user grants...

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OCEAN and EWT trading starts March 3 – Deposit Now

  Ocean Protocol (OCEAN) and Energy Web Token (EWT) trading starts on March 3 at approximately 15:30 UTC.  Deposits for both assets are currently open so you can deposit now and get ready for the launch of trading tomorrow! Note: EWT trading is not available...

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Meet The Kraken Bank Executive Team: CEO David Kinitsky

First revealed last September, Kraken is quietly hard at work gearing up to launch Kraken Bank. This exciting new venture is helping to shape the landscape for both Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency services – and the banking industry – well into the future.  While we...

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Institutional Clients: Get Free Real-Time USD Transfers Through Signature Bank

  Institutional clients at Kraken now have a new way to transfer USD that is free, near-instant and available 24/7. The new funding option is available through our integration with the Signet™ payment platform offered by Signature Bank.  Fees Deposits: $0 Withdrawals: $0 Available currencies...

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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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Oxidizing Kraken: Improving Kraken Infrastructure Using Rust

Simon Chemouil  –  Director of Engineering, Core Backend For more than two years now, Kraken’s Core Backend team has been using Rust to modernize services originally written in PHP, while building new products, expanding the feature set and supporting the ever expanding increase in cryptocurrency...

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Welcome to Kraken Engineering

At Kraken, Engineering and technology innovation have been the lifeblood of our business since our inception. For more than ten years, Kraken has been committed to building a crypto platform with the highest standards for security, performance and reliability. In that time, our people and...

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Kraken Security Labs Finds Flaws in Safepal S1 Hardware Wallet

Kraken Security Labs, our expert team of security researchers, identified vulnerabilities within the Safepal S1 hardware wallet. While we were not able to steal cryptocurrency from the wallet, we demonstrate certain weaknesses that may make future compromise possible.  At Kraken, we try to discover attacks...

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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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The Deep Dive on DeFi

The rise of Decentralized Finance (DeFi) has not only brought a newfound wave of innovation to the broader crypto ecosystem, but also the opportunity for savvy investors to generate staggering returns.  Like all markets, especially those in a state of adolescence, DeFi’s reward isn’t without...

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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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