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 🙂 Â
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,...
Kraken is pleased to announce support for Dash (DASH). Dash is the fourth most valuable digital asset by market cap and recently experienced a huge surge in price (6x gain) and trading volume (10x gain). Dash has one of the fastest growing peer-to-peer networks and...
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. 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 of...