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Nasdaq and Kraken will enable tokenized equities to move between regulated and onchain markets while preserving issuer rights and regulatory compliance.
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Kraken Crypto News
Kraken is a cryptocurrency exchange established in 2011 and headquartered in California. The Kraken exchange hosts trading for a variety of crypto assets, including pairings with multiple different fiat currencies. Kraken Bitcoin trading occurs under the ticker XBT. Kraken offers a number of features, including margin trading for certain assets, with 5x as the leverage limit. Kraken also offers staking along with over-the-counter trading. OTC trading eligibility is based on certain parameters.
Among the Kraken crypto offerings is a futures trading platform, Kraken Futures, which allows maximum leverage of 50x — although customers located in certain regions, such as Kraken U.S. customers and those in Japan, cannot use the platform.
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The new onchain trading engine from the xStocks platform enables trading of more than 70 tokenized equities across Ethereum and Solana.
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Kraken secures Fed payment access, MARA clarifies its Bitcoin treasury plans, Fold cuts $66M in debt, and analysts say NYSE tokenization could attract institutions.
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The crypto exchange added 17 tokenized stock pairs and seven defense and energy equities through its partnership with Ondo Finance.
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In a first for crypto, Kraken’s banking unit gained access to the US Federal Reserve’s payment system, Fedwire, though without full banking privileges such as interest on reserves.
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Chainlink’s protocol enables Coinbase’s cbBTC to move from Base to Monad, boosting Bitcoin-backed liquidity into the layer-1’s DeFi ecosystem.
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The crypto exchange’s new Flexline product lets Pro users borrow against digital assets at fixed rates of 10%–25% APR for terms of up to two years.
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The exchange now allows US customers to trade thousands of stocks and ETFs commission-free alongside crypto, with 24/5 access and instant funding.
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Kraken’s new contracts, built on the xStocks framework, offer up to 20x leverage on tokenized benchmarks tied to US equities and gold.
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Crypto illiquidity is pressuring DeFi lending companies, but Wall Street giants continue to increase their exposure to the world’s largest Ethereum treasury company.
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Blockchain-based versions of US stocks are drawing growing investor activity, with onchain wallets and cross-venue trading expanding rapidly.
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Carlo Kölzer says tokenization is not threatening but is reshaping traditional markets after the company's 360X platform integrates Kraken-backed xStocks.
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The crypto exchange's parent company acquired several platforms in 2025 while confidentially filing for an initial public offering with the SEC.
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The integration gives ICE Chat users direct access to the exchange's OTC crypto liquidity, embedding digital asset trading within established institutional workflows.
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The Wyoming-based crypto exchange said it wanted to give back to the state it calls home, which it chose for its “responsible” approach to crypto regulation.
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