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Kraken
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Kraken is a San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange, one of the longest-operating platforms in the industry, letting users buy, sell, and trade a wide range of digital assets.
$9.38B
+$8.25
40.98%
30 days ago
$20.14
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Kraken was founded in 2011 by Jesse Powell, making it one of the longest continuously operating cryptocurrency exchanges in the industry, having launched not long after Bitcoin's own early years and survived numerous subsequent boom-and-bust cycles in cryptocurrency prices and industry sentiment that have led to the failure of many other exchanges and crypto companies founded around the same era, a longevity the company has emphasized as evidence of its risk management and operational stability relative to some higher-profile competitors that have collapsed. Kraken has emphasized risk management and regulatory compliance in its public positioning that gained additional relevance following the high-profile 2022 collapse of FTX, which drew renewed industry and regulatory attention to counterparty risk and reserve management practices across cryptocurrency exchanges generally. The company offers spot trading across a very wide range of cryptocurrencies, along with margin trading, futures, staking, and other more advanced trading products for its user base, which spans both retail cryptocurrency investors and institutional trading clients. Kraken has explored a public listing in various forms, reflecting its position as one of the more established and longer-operating companies in the cryptocurrency exchange industry, and has raised substantial private funding over its history, reaching a valuation in the billions of dollars, competing with Coinbase, Binance, and other major cryptocurrency exchanges globally.
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