xStocks is moving beyond U.S. equities, starting with Hong Kong listings, after the tokenized-equities framework passed $35 billion in transaction volume.
Kraken Institutional has partnered with Upshift to offer permissioned, custom onchain yield vaults inside its qualified-custody service for eligible clients.
FTX Recovery Trust will begin a roughly $900 million fifth creditor distribution July 31. Eligible claims will receive up to 120% cumulatively.
Kraken has launched USD-settled Bitcoin and Ether options for eligible professional and institutional clients, with portfolio margin and more than 30 collateral currencies.
Kraken parent Payward says it won a $22 million arbitration award against Mazars after the auditor quit a near-finished 2022 audit.
Kraken now lets eligible users post 10 xStocks, including Nvidia, Tesla, Apple, SPY and QQQ tokens, as collateral for futures and margin trading.
Aave founder Stani Kulechov rejected a reported Payward deal valuing Aave at $385 million, turning Kraken's DeFi push into a fight over AAVE economics.
Kraken added self-custodial Solana DEX trading to its main app, giving eligible users access to more than 2,500 tokens through embedded wallets.
Kraken launched CFTC-regulated U.S. perpetual futures on Kraken Pro through Bitnomial, adding BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP and other major assets.
Binance Wallet, Bybit and other crypto apps refunded tokenized SpaceX IPO users after an xStocks allocation shortfall exposed the limits of onchain IPO access.
Binance Wallet opened SPCXx tokenized SpaceX IPO subscriptions from 100 USDC as Binance Stocks added SPCX whole-share limit orders for eligible users.
Kraken became the Official Crypto Exchange Supporter of the FIFA World Cup 2026 as the tournament prepares for 48 teams, 104 matches and six billion viewers.
Kraken and Tempo announced a stablecoin payments partnership, giving Tempo builders exchange liquidity, custody, on/off-ramps and listings support.
Wyoming’s state-issued stablecoin FRNT goes live on Kraken. How it works, freeze/seizure rules, and what a public launch signals for U.S. crypto.