We are very excited to announce the launch of the Kraken iOS app! Read on for screenshots and a quick tour! Account: Add your Kraken API key to view your balances and open orders at a glance. We recommend that you create a special API...
The total cost to buy and sell bitcoins at an exchange involves more than you might think. It depends not only on trades fees, but also on deposit and withdrawal fees, conversion fees, and slippage from spread and depth. This can make it difficult to...
Kraken has launched with bitcoin-stellar trading. Stellars are the currency for the new Stellar decentralized payment network. (The name of the currency was later changed to lumens.) Like Bitcoin, Stellar runs on a decentralized protocol for confirming transactions. But Stellar transactions are confirmed by a...
Depositing bitcoins (and other digital currencies) just got even more convenient. Deposit addresses can now be displayed as QR-codes for fast, easy, and reliable integration with wallet clients on mobile devices. To generate the QR code, simply click the “QR Code” button next to the...
Kraken sponsored two events that are part of the MIT Bitcoin Project. The first was for the MIT Bitcoin Club on July 29th. Dan Matuszewski, Director of Trading Operations at Kraken, talked to the club about how to trade bitcoins. The second event was round...
2014 is considered by some to be the year of multi-sig, and we are happy to announce that Kraken supports payments to multi-signature Bitcoin addresses (addresses beginning with a ‘3’). Multi-sig features are built right into Bitcoin at the protocol level, offering a powerful free...
The first thing to understand about two-factor authentication is that you need it. For email or financial accounts, where security is of the utmost importance, two-factor authentication is essential because it greatly reduces the chance that the account will be compromised. The second thing to...
Last week Kraken was voted the best Bitcoin exchange in a poll conducted on Reddit. Voters were asked to consider the following criteria in making their vote: Security Volume Customer Service Difficulty in withdrawals/deposits Knowledge of the owners Spread Out of 207 replies to the...
Popular Bitcoin industry publication CoinTelegraph has performed the most in-depth review of major bitcoin exchanges to date. Kraken is the winner based on an extensive evaluation in 13 categories. Consistently high rankings across multiple categories helped Kraken achieve the top spot. Kraken’s scores were the...
Responding to a large and growing client demand, Bloomberg launches with Bitcoin prices for the over 320,000 users of its industry-leading terminal for multi-asset data, news and analytics. At launch, Kraken holds the honor of being the only exchange providing complete Bitcoin market data to...
The Bitcoin trading news website TheBlogChain performed an extensive independent review of the industry’s top exchanges. Kraken scored an “A” rating, and received the highest rankings in the industry for legitimacy, customer service, and particularly for security. In summary, the review stated, “Kraken is...
The recently discovered “Heartbleed” OpenSSL vulnerability may have affected many HTTPS sites on the internet, including kraken.com. When exploited, this vulnerability can leak random information that may contain usernames, passwords, and API keys. Most of our servers were patched before the vulnerability was publicly announced,...
Dogecoin is best known for its fun and friendly approach to marketing, and for its highly active community of users. Its creator Billy Marcus hoped to reach a broader demographic than Bitcoin and relied heavily on the DOGE internet meme. By early 2015, almost 100...
Kraken announced today that it raised 5 million dollars in its series A investment round. The round is led by Hummingbird Ventures. Other investors include Trace Mayer and Barry Silbert. Kraken CEO Jesse Powell said that the investment capital will be used to strengthen Kraken’s...
Kraken announced today that it passed a cryptographically verifiable “proof of reserves” audit. The audit is carried out by Stefan Thomas, who verified that the total amount of bitcoins held by Kraken exceed the amount required to cover the balances held by customers. The process...
Only five months after launch, Kraken moves into the #1 volume spot for trading between bitcoins and euros. The bitcoin-euro market had cooled slightly after the buying frenzy in late 2013, but as the volume shows, traders’ interest in Kraken continues to grow!
Namecoin is the first fork of Bitcoin and creates a flexible distributed data storage network. The most prominent use case of Namecoin is a decentral record for the top level domain .bit, which is censorship-resistant and independent of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and...
Oct 9th, 2013 – Kraken announced today an exclusive partnership with Fidor Bank. Fidor is Germany’s first Web 2.0 online bank and is regulated by the German Financial Supervisory Agency BaFin. The partnership is the first of it’s kind and represents a new level of security for...