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What is Kraken?

Kraken is one of the world’s longest-standing digital asset platforms. Globally, Kraken clients trade more than 200 digital assets and 6 different national currencies, including GBP, EUR, USD, CAD, CHF and AUD. Kraken was founded in 2011 and was one of the first exchanges to offer spot trading with margin, parachain auctions, staking, regulated derivatives and index services. In 2022, Kraken launched a custodial NFT marketplace. Kraken is trusted by more than 10 million traders and institutions around the world and offers professional, around-the-clock online support. Kraken markets can be monitored and traded via the web or through the Kraken iOS and Android apps.

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Kraken is the largest Bitcoin exchange in euro volume and liquidity and also trading Canadian dollars, US dollars, British pounds and Japanese yen.


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Kraken
Year Founded
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What do you like best about Kraken?

Pretty good trading fees - the maximum fees is between 0.16% to 0.26% - for the lowest value trading.

Kraken supports fiat money (USD/EUR) - you are able to deposit fiat money and even trade with it in the USD/EUR markets. whenever you want - you also able to withdraw your USD/EUR back to your credit card/bank account.

Proffesional design and user interface - it is very simple but looks very good for my opinion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kraken?

Most of the time, Kraken's support team takes a lot of time to response to our problems.

Withdraw to Mastercard takes longer to Visa card, i have checked it in several accounts in our company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Kraken:

Consider using Kraken if you are willing to trade cryptocurrencies directly from fiat money.

Like i said before - Kraken is a reliable platform - use it if you are a business / trader that searching for crypto trading platform for the long-term of use.

Kraken's API is actually pretty good and convinient to implement in your business / you website/web services. it gives you big and impressive trading data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kraken solving and how is that benefiting you?

Buy and sell cryptocurrencies in the USD/EUR markets - for our company it's much easier and cheaper than trading in BTC/ETH markets.

In our business, we see Kraken platform as a steady and reliable platform. We are customers of Kraken for almost 3 continuous years. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kraken?

Kraken platform supports fiat money - you are able to deposit USD or EUR and even trade with USD/EUR markets (buy crypto assets directly from the fiat money you deposited), you also able to withdraw this fiat money directly to your bank account / credit card.

Kraken stay updated all the time with listing new crypto assets - that is good for Kraken loyal traders. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kraken?

Kraken support section is messy for my opinion, everything is looks the same and the links provided there are not truly helpful.

The convertion rate is a little bit high comparing to other exchanges.

The Kraken platform's design looks old and is still the same for many years. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Kraken:

Consider using Kraken if you are looking for a steady and reliable platform - this platform is running for years and as a customer - I have confidence in this system.

This platform support the core crypto assets on the market, consider using this platform if you need the ability to deposit/withdraw fiat money and trade with it for crypto assets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kraken solving and how is that benefiting you?

Trade crypto assets with 2 different fiat money - USD and EUR (in the USD/EUR markets) - this is one of Kraken's advantages comparing the most of the other crypto trading platforms.

Kraken platform makes it easy on us with the 'History' page - it is very organized and help us track our buy/sell trades. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kraken?

Kraken has everything the most serious crypto trader could look for. The whole design of Kraken just screams hardcore. It has short selling and margin trading which is absolutely huge for those in North America that don't have other options. It also has lower transaction fees than most major exchanges. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kraken?

The worst thing about Kraken has to be either its extremely tough user interface, or its absurd security system. Right off the bat when you go on Kraken everything just looks really complicated. The charts aren't smooth like on other exchanges, the font is very lackluster and the details of everything are just presented very weak. It is as if the platform laid out all its details through a document service where everything looks basic and is in Times New Roman. The security part is extremely frustrating too because it is extremely easy for your account to get locked. It happened with mine where I accidentally typed in the wrong password twice then my account got temporarily locked. I then had to go through support just to have them tell me because I had a "generic username" that bots could easily access it and therefore it will continue to be temporarily locked. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Kraken:

Know what you are doing before attempting to even use the platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kraken solving and how is that benefiting you?

Kraken has allowed for the usage of margin trading for North Americans. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kraken?

Kraken is one of the most established cryptocurrency exchanges. They are known for their security and as a result were selected to be the MT gox trustee. They have the highest volume of BTC/Euro of any exchange which gives them incredibly high volume and liquidity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kraken?

I love the exchange, but I wish I could buy more coins there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Kraken:

Kraken is the exchange with the highest volume of BTC/Euro. This is a huge advantage in terms of liquidity and getting orders filled quickly and at the best price. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kraken solving and how is that benefiting you?

Being the highest volume BTC/EURO is a major advantage for me and my company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kraken?

Multiple cryptocurrencies to trade from.

2FA enabled, which is very important for security purposes.

Deposit fees are relatively low and trading fees are between 0.0% and 0.26%. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kraken?

Very bad mobile user experience. The website is not responsive and it's pretty much unreadable on smartphones.

The website has serious design issues which will ultimately negatively impact user growth & retention.

Trading options are limited because of few trading pairs available for trade.

It could be very expensive to deposit US dollars. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kraken solving and how is that benefiting you?

I Kraken to take advantage of price variations on markets. There's instances where certain coins are cheaper to trade acquire on Kraken. It makes perfect sense to acquire them on Kraken and then transfer on other exchanges/platforms Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kraken?

Kraken was one of the first platforms I've used for trading cryptocurrency. I liked how it feels professional to use and looks like a safe trusted platform. The security aspect was pretty solid, with 2FA and different level of identity authentication and different daily limits and fees. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kraken?

The fees could be a little high and the transactions did not go through very quickly. There was a lag and a lack of volatility and volume when I was using the platform, so a maker deal would not succeed every time. The authentication and limit setup took a while, and it involved many security measures including providing social security to get a higher limit. I didn't feel very comfortable doing that, but on the other side of the same coin, that allowed for more security. There were also a lot of trading pairs, not just between USD and other cryptocurrencies, but even between some other fiat currencies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Kraken:

I later found out that Kraken is largely facing the European audience, so a lot of their trading pairs included European currencies, but it is still a very nice platform to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kraken solving and how is that benefiting you?

I was able to trade cryptocurrency on with the Kraken platform. They offers many services on top of buying and selling. They offer margins too, so it is a relatively professional site for people to get into cryptocurrency trading. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kraken?

The best bitcoin exchange is needed for serious and professional bitcoin traders. Bitcoin security must be impeccable. Banking relationships must be sound and reliable. The trading engine must be fast. Order types must be advanced. And profits must be able to be multiplied with Bitcoin margin trading so you can leverage long bitcoin positions or short bitcoin positions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kraken?

Bitcoin is on it's way out. Hopefully they are going to transition to the new chain money optimization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Kraken:

Make sure they are going to trade in the new chain currencies. Don't get stuck with too much bitcoin. A long position is not something you want to be in with bitcoin right now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kraken solving and how is that benefiting you?

This allows us to use bitcoin as a payment option. With Kraken you can just exchange your coins as well as taking a long or short position. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kraken?

I've tried a number of image optimization services and options. Kraken is the best of them all. I love how they have the option to retroactively optimize images. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kraken?

I don't have any complaints about Kraken at all, to be honest. Great service, excellent interaction with WordPress (which is how I use it), reasonable cost, and their website interface is super easy to navigate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kraken solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's dramatically increased the loading time of a number of website projects. It's incredibly convenient for my clients, as we have image uploads set to automatically optimize images. Very easy to use, with a powerful impact. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kraken?

The integration with trade.kraken.com is fairly straight-forward; though using the features does take a bit of getting used to. However, with a simple 5:1 margin ability - the effort is worth it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kraken?

Kraken could benefit from the addition of some of the more advanced trade types, such as trailing stops and price-based stop-limit margin orders. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kraken solving and how is that benefiting you?

I've benefited from the ability to trade on margin. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kraken?

Kraken prides itself on being one of the most secure crypto exchanges for good reason. They have the highest volume of BTC/Euro of any exchange. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kraken?

They should list more coins. Currently there are only about 20 listed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Kraken:

Great liquidity for BTC to Euro as it has the highest volume in that trading pair. They would be better off if they listed more coins though. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kraken solving and how is that benefiting you?

Kraken has the highest BTC / Euro volume so this is a major advantage providing high liquidity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.