Kraken is pleased to announce support for Tether (USDT). Utilizing the Omni Protocol, Tether is built on the Bitcoin blockchain and backed by fiat so that 1 USDT represents 1 US dollar held in reserve by the company behind the Tether project. Adding tether to...
Since launching Monero (XMR) on January 2nd, trade volumes have been steadily increasing and we are ready to enable margin trading for Monero pairs. Which currency pairs and leverages are available? XMR/XBT: 2x,3x XMR/USD: 2x XMR/EUR: 2x What are our XMR limits? XMR limits depend...
Today Kraken set a new record for total daily volume traded across all currencies on the exchange. With about 135,000 bitcoin traded in 24 hours the new record beat the previous record, set in June 2016, by 35%. Kraken continues to grow at an amazing...
Last week Kraken tweeted a poll before the Bitcoin ETF decision asking followers what they thought the outcome would be. We received over 400 votes, with 58% incorrectly predicting approval and 42% correctly predicting that the ETF would not be approved. Did it matter? Perhaps...
Kraken will offer support for trading Melon tokens (MLN) shortly after Melon goes live on March 15 at 11am UTC. Built on the Ethereum network, Melon is a protocol for managing digital assets that is decentralized, modular, transparently auditable, and low cost. MLN tokens cover...
Kraken is pleased to announce the acquisition of the popular charting and trading platform Cryptowatch (https://cryptowat.ch) – used by thousands of traders to chart over 150 markets in real-time and trade up to 22 digital assets through a highly user-friendly interface. Cryptowatch has seen rapid...
Kraken is pleased to launch a new and greatly improved trading platform for our clients that is found here: https://trade.kraken.com/ The trading platform is adapted from the popular charting and trading site Cryptowatch. Kraken has acquired Cryptowatch – you can read more about the acquisition...
A bug was recently discovered with Cloudflare, which Kraken and many other websites use for DoS protection and other services. Due to the nature of the bug, we recommend as a precaution that Kraken clients change their security credentials: Change your password Change your two-factor...
Today Kraken is launching support for trading Monero (XMR). Monero is one of the leading cryptocurrencies that has seen huge 40x market cap growth in 2016 and trades with high volume and liquidity. Monero is built on the core principles of privacy, decentralization, open development,...
Best wishes to all our clients and the crypto community for happy holidays and a great new year! Here’s a look back at some of the major Kraken milestones of 2016. It was a year of major growth for Kraken with four landmark acquisition deals...
We would like to thank The Economist and all thirteen teams that participated in the Kraken investment challenge to optimize a $1 million, 5-year bitcoin-ether portfolio. Read more about the investment challenge in our previous blog post We enjoyed reviewing the variety of approaches taken...
Global digital asset exchange Kraken is pleased to announce the acquisition of the award-winning wallet funding service Glidera (https://www.glidera.io). Chicago-based Glidera is the world’s first non-custodial buying and selling service for wallets that has grown quickly since its launch in 2015 to integrate with 10...
Kraken, in partnership with The Economist, asked MBA programs from around the world the following question: You have $1M to invest across bitcoin and ether. You cannot touch your investment for the next 5 years. How much of that $1M do you invest in each? Why?...
Heed this or perish. Let’s begin with the assumption that within 24 hours your usual mobile phone number will be hijacked by social engineers. They will use your number to gain access to every account you own that utilizes phone-based authentication and account recovery, like...
Zcash (ZEC) trading is coming this Friday, October 28! What is Zcash? Perhaps the most hotly anticipated digital asset of 2016, Zcash has a highly regarded development team and investment from major VC firms (Pantera, Fenbushi, and The Digital Currency Group) and Bitcoin VIPs (Roger...
Kraken now supports trading of ICONOMI tokens (ICN). ICN can be traded for bitcoin and ether with the following two currency pairs added to the Kraken platform: ICN/XBT ICN/ETH ICN holders who wish to deposit their tokens to their Kraken accounts should go to Funding...
The Ethereum foundation is planning a hard fork at block 2463000, expected to be reached on Tuesday October 18th 2016 PDT. The fork introduces changes to help protect against the recent DOS attacks on the network. The fork is expected to go very smoothly with...
Augur (REP) margin trading is now available on Kraken! Read on for the details. What currency pairs and leverages are available? REP/XBT, REP/ETH, REP/EUR: 2x What are the REP limits? The REP limits depend on the verification level of the account as follows: Tier...