The Kraken website and trading is now back online, following the recent scheduled downtime necessary to upgrade our infrastructure. All client funds were kept safe and secure during this time. Please take note of some important information, below: Trading All orders have been cancelled prior...
We are performing a system upgrade on Thursday, January 11 at approximately 5:00 UTC (Wednesday January 10 at 9 pm PT). Kraken services will be offline for about 2 hours during the upgrade, possibly longer. Withdrawals in all currencies will be offline for an additional...
Note: In the process of performing final checks ahead of rollout, we discovered a problem in one of the system components. We have been unable to resolve the issue in the last 24 hours and expect to make another attempt after the issue has been resolved,...
We have made significant progress in the last week with the system upgrades and have realized moderate improvement in performance. Unfortunately, we were not able to complete all of the upgrades and the most impactful measures are yet to come. For the time being, systems...
This blaze is on fire. The recent, unexpected explosion in demand has been overwhelming. Each of the past few days has produced 50,000 new account registrations and 10,000 new support tickets — an order of magnitude above where we were just last quarter. Concurrent users,...
Effective Wednesday September 6 around 6 am UTC (Tuesday September 5 around 11 pm PT) we will be changing the allowed decimal place precision for placing orders. We had a lot of feedback from clients after the previous change in precision, with most saying they...
Effective Wednesday August 30 around 6 am UTC (Tuesday August 29 around 11 pm PT) we will be reducing the allowed decimal place precision for placing orders in all trading pairs. Below is a list of all trading pairs showing the new allowed number of decimal...
In order to help mitigate the strain on our platform caused by recent exponential growth, we are delisting some of our illiquid trading pairs and temporarily suspending all advanced order types. These changes will go into effect on Tuesday, August 22 around 6 am UTC...
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) deposits and withdrawals are now online – read on for important details! How many confirmations are required for deposits? 20 confirmations required before BCH deposits are credited We may lower the required number of confirmations in the coming weeks if the BCH...
This post is a follow-up to our previous post on the Bitcoin Cash hard fork with a few clarifications and reminders for our clients. When exactly will the fork happen? The exact time cannot be known in advance because it is based on “median time.”...
On August 1 2017 at 12:20 pm UTC a small community of Bitcoin users is planning a hard fork from Bitcoin to an alternative protocol called “Bitcoin Cash” (BCH). Bitcoin Cash is expected to be a minority chain, with the vast majority of the Bitcoin...
Kraken is pleased to announce support for EOS trading! The EOS platform is designed to scale the mainstream development of decentralized applications for large businesses, and claims to the first platform to do so. Which EOS Pairs are Available For Trading? EOS-Ethereum (EOS/ETH) EOS-Bitcoin (EOS/XBT) EOS-U.S....
Kraken is pleased to announce the addition of new pairs for trading between ripples (XRP) and four fiat currencies (EUR, USD, JPY, and CAD)! The new trading pairs mean that clients who want to buy or sell XRP in exchange for their preferred fiat currency...
We’re proud to announce that on May 5, 2017, Kraken set a new record for trading volume across all digital assets in a 24hr period: $178,521,474. This figure trumps our previous record set on March 17, 2017, by 25%. Keep on Kraken 🙂
The price of bitcoin and the total market cap for digital assets are each shattering previous records. At the time of writing, bitcoin is over $1500, while the digital assets total market cap is nearing the $40,000,000,000 mark. These numbers represent new all-time highs for...
Kraken is pleased to announce that trading for Gnosis (GNO) tokens will launch shortly after GNO tokens are released to ICO auction buyers on Monday May 1, 17:09:49 UTC. Order books will be enabled sometime in the few hours before tokens are released and traders...
Kraken launched support for tether-USD (USDT/USD) trading on March 29 and now adds 2x leveraged margin trading for this pair. Further enhancements to the margin program include higher 5x leverage for other trading pairs: Bitcoin-USD (XBT/USD): 5x Ether-bitcoin (ETH/XBT): 5x Ether-EUR (ETH/EUR): 5x Ether-USD (ETH/USD):...
Kraken is pleased to offer new international wire options to fund accounts with US dollars (USD), British pounds (GBP), and euros (EUR). Deposit details Availability: All service areas except the US, which is already covered by domestic USD payments Start time: immediately Currencies: USD, GBP,...