US Crypto Exchange Kraken Expands to Stocks, ETFs and FX Perpetual Futures
The San Francisco-based crypto exchange Kraken expanded its trading services this week to stocks, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and forex (FX) perpetual futures.
On Monday, the exchange announced that customers in New Jersey, Connecticut, Wyoming, Oklahoma, Idaho, Iowa, Rhode Island, Kentucky, Alabama and the District of Columbia could now trade 11,000 US-listed stocks and ETFs.
Kraken notes those states represent the start of a “phased national rollout” for equities trading, with plans to expand to other states and then international markets like the United Kingdom, Europe and Australia.
Then on Friday, the exchange announced it was launching FX perpetual futures on Kraken Derivatives. The first two offerings to launch…
