It’s been a wild week for the Solana Saga smartphone. It won an award from a prominent YouTuber… for worst phone of the year. And it started flying off the shelves… because buyers discovered it came with crypto perks more valuable than the phone’s sticker price. And now, Solana Labs says, some units of the smartphone that were sold last…
We’re thrilled to announce that Bonk (BONK) is now available on Kraken! Funding and trading BONK funding and trading are live. Add BONK to your Kraken account by navigating to Funding, selecting the asset, and hitting Deposit. Only deposit BONK on Solana. Deposits using other networks will be lost. Got BONK and a Kraken account? ⤵️ BONK is tradeable on…
This most recent Proof of Reserves covered the most widely held cryptocurrencies: BTC, ETH, USDC, USDT, DOT, ADA and XRP. It also included the open margin positions, futures balances and on-chain staked amounts of those assets. In total, approximately 78% of all clients’ cryptoassets held on the platform were covered by this most recent attestation. We pioneered the Proof of…
We’re thrilled to announce that Kraken now supports new margin pairs for Optimism (OP), Synthetic (SNX), Injective (INJ) and Celestia (TIA)! Margin trading is now available for the below pairs for OP, SNX and TIA: Pair basePair nameAvailable leverageLong Position Limit Short Position LimitOPOPUSD2X1400014000SNXSNXUSD2X75007500INJINJUSD3X16001600INJINJEUR2X15001500TIATIAUSD3X30003000 Here’s what you need to know about the assets: Optimism (OP) is a Layer 2 scaling solution…
By Nick Percoco, Kraken Chief Security Officer Financial fraud has been a part of transactional business since the dawn of transactional business. If you were unfortunate enough to have been on the other side of an insurance deal with Hegestratos, he would have had you insure the corn cargo on his ship – then removed the corn, sold the corn,…
We’re thrilled to announce that Polygon Ecosystem Token (POL) is now available on Kraken! Funding and trading POL funding and trading are live. Add POL to your Kraken account by navigating to Funding, selecting the asset, and hitting Deposit. Only deposit POL on Polygon. Deposits using other networks will be lost. Got POL and a Kraken account? ⤵️ POL is…
We’re thrilled to announce that Jito (JTO) is now available on Kraken! Funding and trading JTO funding and trading are live. Add JTO to your Kraken account by navigating to Funding, selecting the asset, and hitting Deposit. Only deposit JTO on Solana. Deposits using other networks will be lost. Got JTO and a Kraken account? ⤵️ JTO is tradeable on…
Wizards of the Coast has instituted a brand-wide prohibition on the use of artificial intelligence tools within its “Magic: The Gathering” franchise after advertisements by the company had gamers crying foul, hurling accusations that the company used AI to create images for the new Tomb Raider Secret Lair card game set instead of human artists. The new policy comes a…
BlackRock and Nasdaq met the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s Division of Trading and Markets Tuesday to discuss the asset manager’s bid to launch a spot Bitcoin ETF. According to a memo released by the SEC, the meeting included BlackRock’s Head of Digital Assets, Robert Mitchnick, along with personnel from the asset manager’s ETF team. Also participating were Nasdaq’s…
The Epic Games Store has made changes to its content policies, allowing the NFT card game Gods Unchained to return to its platform, Fortnite publisher Epic Games announced Tuesday. Gods Unchained, along with other blockchain games like Striker Manager 3, had previously been removed from the Epic Games Store due to receiving “Adults Only” rating scores from the Entertainment Software…
