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...
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...
Today Kraken is pleased to launch support for trading Augur Reputation Tokens (REP). The Augur team expressed their excitement for this important step in the overall Augur launch, saying We all know that Kraken is one of the top exchanges in the space. This is...
We have received many reports lately of clients falling victim to phishing sites appearing in the ads, above the organic search results, of all of the major search engines. Unfortunately, it seems to be easier to get an ad up than it is to have...
When will ETC funding be available? The ETC funding gateway is expected to come online on Thursday July 28th sometime before 12pm UTC. Edit: ETC funding is now live! If I deposit ETH will Kraken credit my ETC too? If you have not yet split your...
Last week the Ethereum hard fork went smoothly with the chain reimbursing DAO investors becoming dominant very quickly. As stated by email and on our blog (http://blog.kraken.com/post/147619017767), ETH balances on Kraken after the fork are tokens of this dominant chain. However, the competing chain that...
The Ethereum community has elected to do a hard fork in order to resolve the DAO exploit. The MainNet block on which the hard fork will occur is set at 1920000, which should be reached on July 20 or 21 depending on your time zone. In...
Less than six months after acquiring both Coinsetter and Cavirtex in a landmark deal, we are pleased today to announce the acquisition of CleverCoin, one of the first Netherlands-based bitcoin exchanges. The addition of CleverCoin cements Kraken’s position as the undisputed leading exchange in Europe...
Today Kraken set a new trade volume record with nearly 100,000 BTC in 24 hour volume traded across all currency pairs. The new record marks a 264% increase over the last record, set on November 3rd 2015, when over 37,600 BTC were traded. Kraken has...
Kraken has received many requests from our clients and others in the community for assistance in disputing accepted or rejected amounts with MtGox claims. Any claimants with remaining disputes must file an application for an appraisal of their bankruptcy claim with the Tokyo District Court....
We have been alerted to multiple phishing attempts in the past 24 hours which appear to have been targeted at BitcoinTalk users. Anyone who received an email with the subject Mtgox.Claim assessment process should delete it and not click on the link it contains! This...
Kraken will add The DAO tokens to the growing list of assets supported on its global, cutting edge and low fee trading platform. The DAO tokens will trade under the abbreviation “DAO” with the following trade pairs available at launch: DAO/XBT (bitcoin) DAO/ETH (ether) DAO/EUR...
We are pleased to share major news from Tokyo’s court-appointed trustee in the investigation of claims from MtGox creditors. During a scheduled and long-awaited Creditor’s Meeting in Tokyo, Trustee Nobuaki Kobayashi announced today that 24,750 creditors have filed claims to date. The total amount claimed...