ESMA says unauthorised crypto-asset service providers must stop serving EU clients after 1 July. Kraken is framing the deadline as a counterparty and audit risk issue for institutions.
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Kraken just announced that eligible customers in the U.S. and over 100 countries can now trade nearly 2,500 Solana-based tokens directly inside the Kraken app.
The exchange’s first support for a Canton-native asset opens a path to broader connectivity with the institutional settlement network.
Fortune magazine placed Kraken in its CeFi category, citing its banking charter, $1.5bn NinjaTrader acquisition, and over $2bn in average daily volume in Q1’26.
Kraken secures FIFA category sponsorship covering 16 host cities across Canada, Mexico and the USA, with activations starting on the eve of the tournament.
Payward will send engineers into federal agencies on two-year assignments and plans to recruit Tech Force participants back into its own teams afterward.
Kraken just launched a cash-settled perpetual contract tied to SpaceX, using a synthetic pricing engine built for a market with no public stock feed.
Crypto exchange Kraken says eligible clients can register for SpaceX’s IPO via its tokenized equities product, with 24/7 trading from day one of listing.
Kraken says it is the first platform to list Canada’s QCAD stablecoin, launching rewards for holders just weeks after Bill C-15 gave stablecoins formal status.
Kraken said that payments blockchain Tempo selected it as its first US centralized exchange partner, giving clients access to Kraken’s full institutional stack.
Kraken has launched a fixed-rate lending product targeting sophisticated clients across 40 US states, with a $75,000 minimum loan size and terms up to two years.
Crypto exchange Kraken adds three Hyperliquid earning options with up to 2.2% APY, available across the US, UK, EU, Australia, and other markets from day one.
Kraken affiliate, Payward Services, will let eligible Kraken customers and xStocks Alliance clients participate in US-listed IPOs at the offering price.
Kraken parent Payward and Franklin Templeton used the Bermuda Digital Finance Forum to demo their collaboration with a tokenized gold ETF share dropped into eligible attendees’ accounts.
Kraken just launched Kraken Prop, a prop trading firm integrated into the broader Kraken Pro brand. The prop firm offers up to $200,000 in funding.
The yield product sits inside the Krak app, routes BTC through onchain lending markets via a non-custodial wallet, and is available in the US, EEA and Canada.
UK fintech hiring is expected to increase by nearly 14% in 2026, after expanding by 28% in 2025, with payments infrastructure leading the demand.
The exchange raised maximum leverage on its two flagship perpetual contracts from 50x to 100x for non-EU, non-US traders, with tiered notional caps that scale down as position size grows.
The US crypto exchange made PROS trading live on Monday, though app-based buying remains gated behind liquidity conditions.
Kraken’s parent company is buying the only US firm to hold all three core CFTC licenses, giving it an exchange, clearinghouse and brokerage in a single transaction.
German exchange operator is buying a 1.5% fully diluted stake in the crypto platform’s parent company through a secondary transaction, deepening a partnership first announced in December 2025.
The crypto exchange is using Beeks Exchange Cloud to power a managed colocation offering aimed at both institutional and individual traders, bringing crypto venue infrastructure closer to traditional low-latency market norms.
The Krak Metal Mastercard requires a 30-day average balance of at least £50,000 or €50,000 across Kraken’s platforms, offering 2% cashback and fee-free foreign exchange spending.
The crypto exchange now routes altcoin-to-altcoin and cross-asset trades through two liquid markets, executing as a single transaction with one consolidated taker fee.
The crypto exchange’s latest transparency report shows requests from 74 countries, with over 13,000 accounts affected and the FBI again the most active individual agency.
The crypto exchange’s tokenized stock platform has grown from 60 assets at launch to 100, surpassing $25 billion in transaction volume. Kraken now plans to more than quintuple the catalog by the end of 2026.
The exchange boosted 17 stablecoin pairs to 10x leverage and lifted BTC, ETH, gold token, and DeFi pairs to 5x in what it calls its largest single leverage expansion.
The crypto exchange’s European derivatives arm now offers equity index, commodity and FX futures alongside 290+ crypto perpetuals through a single interface, regulated under CySEC.
The deal, Kraken’s sixth acquisition in a year, brings vesting, airdrop, and governance tooling in-house as the exchange prepares for a planned IPO.
The crypto exchange has launched leveraged derivatives for European customers, offering up to 10x leverage on more than 150 markets through its Cyprus-regulated entity.
Bybit already works with several prop firms. So will it go further and launch prop trading or stick to being a third-party provider?
Kraken said it will give its users access to Eurex-listed derivatives, assuming regulatory approvals go through.
Kraken has fully integrated a prop trading function, following its purchase of Breakout in September.
Talks on the merger purportedly fell apart after IG and Kraken could not come to an agreement on what to do with tastytrade.
Kraken paid $100m to buy Small Exchange from IG Group. It is hard to see them using it for anything but perpetual futures and – potentially – event contracts.
Kraken is the first big, legitimate player to enter the prop space. They could end up becoming one of the biggest players in the space.
The deal will see Capitalise.ai’s founders and dev team move to Kraken, where they’ll operate in the crypto firm’s Pro team.
Dance is the latest in a series of senior executives to move from the retail broker sector to the cryptocurrency trading industry.
It is very hard to see how Kraken could buy NinjaTrader in cash. This deal is about equity issuance and a potential IPO.
Kraken will be able to offer futures and get a license in the US, while NinjaTrader can now offer its products in the UK, EU, and Australia.
