# Kraken

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Kraken is a centralized crypto exchange and financial services company for retail traders and institutions. It helps users buy, trade, hold, and spend crypto and stocks through exchange, derivatives, custody, payments, and prime brokerage products.

Kraken is a centralized cryptocurrency exchange and financial services company offering spot, margin, and derivatives trading in digital assets, along with stocks and ETFs. Retail users trade through the Kraken app and Kraken Pro on web, mobile, and API, while institutions get dedicated execution, custody, and financing. The company also runs self-custody, payments, and market data products.

Customers deposit fiat or crypto into Kraken accounts and trade against order books matched by the exchange, funding them by bank transfer, card, or digital payment methods. Derivatives include perpetual and fixed-maturity futures with leverage. Institutions use prime brokerage with multi-venue routing, an OTC desk for block trades, regulated qualified custody, and validator-based staking.

Kraken Exchange is the flagship, with trading products such as Kraken Futures and Kraken Prime and asset services such as custody and staking. For consumers, a money app covers payments, a debit card, and yield, and for businesses, APIs let other platforms add crypto buying, selling, and trading. A benchmarks business publishes reference rates used by regulated funds and futures markets. Kraken is used by retail investors, active traders, institutions, and fintechs.

- Type: Company
- Sector: Finance
- Status: Active
- Founded: 2011-01-01
- Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/Kraken

## Products

- [Kraken Exchange](https://thegrid.id/profiles/Kraken): Kraken Exchange is a centralized exchange for trading digital assets against fiat currencies and other cryptocurrencies, with market, limit, stop-loss, and take-profit orders matched on its order books. Users fund accounts by bank transfer, payment card, or digital payment methods and trade through the Kraken app and Kraken Pro on web, mobile, and API. Accounts also include stocks and ETFs, staking, portfolio tracking, and transaction history. (Centralised Exchange, Live, Main Product)
- [Kraken Wallet](https://thegrid.id/profiles/Kraken): Kraken Wallet provides self-custody key management for cryptocurrencies and NFTs across multiple blockchains. Users control private keys through seed phrase recovery while connecting to decentralized applications via WalletConnect protocol. The wallet supports multiple address generation from single seed phrases and includes portfolio tracking across fungible and non-fungible tokens with encrypted cloud backup options. (Wallet, Live)
- [Kraken Custody](https://thegrid.id/profiles/Kraken): Kraken Custody provides qualified custodial storage for institutional cryptocurrency holdings through segregated cold storage infrastructure and multi-signature authorization protocols. Institutional clients access custody services for digital assets while maintaining operational control through vault-based permission systems. The platform supports staking operations, collateral management, and withdrawal authorization workflows for regulated entities requiring custodial arrangements. (Custodian, Live)
- [Krak](https://thegrid.id/profiles/Kraken): Krak is a mobile money app for sending, spending, and earning on crypto and cash balances, with payments addressed to other users by their Kraktag. Users send money across borders without fees, split bills, and spend through a Krak debit card that pays cashback. Balances earn a variable APY automatically, and Krak Vaults offer higher-yield onchain strategies. (Peer to Peer & Remittance, Live)
- [Kraken Launch](https://thegrid.id/profiles/Kraken): Kraken Launch facilitates MiCA-compliant token sales through an exclusive Legion partnership, enabling retail access to early-stage token offerings via merit-based allocation. The companion Kraken 360 platform provides the issuer-side infrastructure, coordinating custody, staking, liquidity provision, compliance, and token distribution for protocol teams preparing for token generation events. (Launch Pad, Live)
- [Kraken Futures](https://thegrid.id/profiles/Kraken): Kraken Futures provides cryptocurrency derivatives trading with perpetual and fixed-maturity futures contracts supporting up to 50x leverage on major digital assets. The platform also offers tokenized equity perpetual futures through xStocks integration, providing 24/7 leveraged exposure to U.S. equities, indices, and commodities for eligible non-U.S. clients. (Centralized Derivative Exchange, Live)
- [Kraken Prime](https://thegrid.id/profiles/Kraken): Kraken Prime is a prime brokerage for institutions that combines multi-venue trade execution, integrated custody, and financing in one platform. Orders are routed across multiple liquidity providers with smart order routing, multiple order types, and analytics, while assets stay in regulated, bankruptcy-remote custody. Clients draw a single line of credit across venues, borrow against custodied assets, trade without pre-funding positions, and earn rewards on pledged collateral. (Centralised Exchange, Live)
- [Kraken OTC](https://thegrid.id/profiles/Kraken): Kraken OTC provides bilateral over-the-counter trading for large-volume cryptocurrency transactions outside the public order book. The desk supports spot and options markets with negotiated pricing and deep liquidity for institutional counterparties. Kraken OTC integrates with ICE Chat, connecting to institutional clients across the Intercontinental Exchange network. (OTC, Live)
- [Kraken Ramp](https://thegrid.id/profiles/Kraken): Kraken Ramp is a fiat-to-crypto on/off-ramp API that enables third-party platforms to embed compliant buy and sell flows through a single integration. The API supports various digital assets across multiple blockchains with several payment methods including ACH, SEPA, PIX, Apple Pay, and Google Pay across multiple markets. (On/Off Ramp, Live)
- [Kraken Staking](https://thegrid.id/profiles/Kraken): Kraken Staking is a non-custodial institutional staking platform offering validator infrastructure and delegation services across major proof-of-stake networks. The platform serves institutional clients and high-net-worth individuals with a minimum threshold of $500,000 in staked assets, providing direct validator operation rather than pooled staking delegation. (Staking & Validation Services, Live)
- [CF Benchmarks](https://thegrid.id/profiles/Kraken): CF Benchmarks is a regulated benchmark administrator that publishes real-time and daily settlement cryptocurrency index prices for a range of digital assets. Its reference rates, including the CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate and Ether Reference Rate, are used to price exchange-traded funds and regulated futures and options. The index family also covers staking reward rates and other crypto benchmarks. (Index Platform, Live)
- [Kraken Embed](https://thegrid.id/profiles/Kraken): Kraken Embed lets banks, fintechs, and payment providers add crypto trading to their own apps through modular APIs, backed by Kraken's liquidity and execution. The partner keeps the front end and brand, while Kraken handles asset listings, execution, and market connectivity in the background. Dedicated implementation support lets platforms go live without building trading infrastructure themselves. (Financial Services Platform, Live)

## Links

- [Blog](https://blog.kraken.com)
- [Documentation](https://docs.kraken.com)
- [Main](https://www.kraken.com)
- [Privacy policy](https://www.kraken.com/legal/privacy)
- [Terms of Service](https://www.kraken.com/legal)
- [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/KrakenFX)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/krakenfx)
- [Twitter / X](https://x.com/krakenfx)
- [Telegram](https://t.me/kraken_exchange_official)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/krakenfx/wallet)
- [Discord](https://discord.gg/krakenexchange)
- [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/Kraken)
- [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/krakenfx)
- [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/c/KrakenBitcoinExchange)
- [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/@krakenfx)
- [Twitter / X](https://x.com/CFBenchmarks)
- [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/company/cf-benchmarks)
- [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC77JXC9sWbUHFWeuZ9GYV9Q)
- [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/cf_benchmarks)

## Relationships

- [Ink](https://thegrid.id/profiles/ink): Subsidiary
- [Backed Finance](https://thegrid.id/profiles/backed_finance): Subsidiary
- [xStocks](https://thegrid.id/profiles/xstocks): Subsidiary
- [Magna](https://thegrid.id/profiles/Magna): Subsidiary
- [Breakout](https://thegrid.id/profiles/breakout): Subsidiary

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