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...
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,...
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...
How will the crypto market perform in 2021? Our VIPs shared their outlook for the year ahead in our latest bi-annual survey, out last week. Now, our top internal experts are joining forces to weigh in, providing perspectives based on their years of experience in...
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...
Earn rates as high as 23.61% on your cryptocurrency?! Growth of principal has long been one of the most exciting benefits when buying crypto assets, but as the industry has evolved, obtaining attractive yields is emerging as a new opportunity. Traders and investors can now...
Kraken is pleased to announce its new Ethereum 2.0 staking service has passed a key milestone, with clients depositing over 100,000 ETH (worth more than $60 million) in just four days since launch. The total amount staked on Kraken hit the threshold Tuesday, meaning approximately...
Bitcoin has returned to all-time highs, and with it, cryptocurrencies are again garnering attention from investors and legislators alike. To help educate the public on these pressing trends, Kraken CEO Jesse Powell joined Yahoo Finance Live last Friday to discuss these topics within the context...
Kraken recently announced it will match up to $150,000 in donations to open-source Ethereum developers as the lead sponsor of the latest Gitcoin funding drive. This means that from now until December 17, you can join the Gitcoin community and donate cryptocurrency to the teams...
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...
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...
Kraken is excited to announce it will match $150,000 in donations to open-source Ethereum projects in collaboration with Gitcoin, an Ethereum-based platform for fundraising. The grants will mark Kraken’s first-ever donation to an Ethereum project, a development we feel recognizes the project’s maturity both as...
A $250,000 Bitcoin in 2021? Excitement is in the air, prices recently hit all-time highs and our latest Kraken VIP sentiment survey reflects the many ways professionals are thinking about how the cryptocurrency sector might evolve in the year ahead. In the new survey, Kraken...
We are pleased to announce Kraken has agreed to donate $150,000 to Brink, a new research and development center seeking to educate the next generation of Bitcoin developers. Founded by Chaincode Labs developer John Newbery and Bitcoin Optech contributor Mike Schmidt, Brink aims to address...
Looking for new investments, trade opportunities or ways to earn staking rewards? We’re excited to list 4 new assets starting November 24 at approximately 13:30 UTC. New Trading Assets Keep (KEEP) – The Keep Network is a privacy layer for Ethereum that allows users...
VIP clients are the first to receive Kraken Intelligence reports. If you’d like early access to our latest research, sign up for the latest research or ask your account manager for more details. Kraken Intelligence, our team of in-house research experts, has released its Bitcoin...
Bitcoin Cash will hard fork on November 15 2020 around 12:00 pm UTC as part of a scheduled protocol upgrade. This upgrade is controversial and will likely result in two chains after the fork. The likely split is between two protocols known as “Bitcoin...
Ledger clients whose data was stolen in a breach were targeted in a phishing scam this past week. Below, our expert team at Kraken Security Labs has put together an analysis of the ongoing attack against Ledger clients. This instructive case study could prove useful...