2025 full-year financial highlights

By Arjun Sethi, Kraken co-CEO Kraken was founded 15 years ago as a high-performance crypto exchange built for professional traders. From the beginning, the company focused on deep liquidity, reliable execution, and infrastructure capable of operating through extreme market volatility. That operating philosophy shaped how...

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New assets and pairs available for margin trading: MON and NIGHT!

We are making new pairs available for margin trading, taking our total to over 240 markets enabled for margin trading on Kraken Pro! Margin trading is now available for two new trading pairs: Pair base Pair name Available leverage Long limit Short limit MON MON/USD...

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Maker fee program update: optimizing liquidity incentives

We are updating the pairs eligible for our maker fee incentive program to optimize liquidity support across our trading pairs. Effective Jan. 2, 2026, 4:00 p.m. UTC, we will be moving 6 trading pairs that have successfully achieved sufficient liquidity and trading volume to the...

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Preventing mobile performance regressions with Maestro

We strive to build the best experience possible for our customers, so making our beautiful, snappy apps is non-negotiable. The hard part is keeping things fast while rapidly moving forward and shipping new features in our big and complex apps.

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Oxidizing Kraken, Part 2: from bet to backbone

Four years ago – in Oxidizing Kraken: improving Kraken infrastructure – I explained how Kraken began transforming its backend by leveraging Rust. Nearly four years later, how did that early bet turn out?

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