Kraken Institutional

Solutions for institutional trading firms

Access deep liquidity, market-leading EUR/USD pairs and fast, reliable APIs.

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Over a decade of experience building crypto-native solutions for institutional traders

Deep liquidity

Highly liquid order books across spot and stablecoins. Depth enhanced by Kraken's diverse client base.

Comprehensive listings

Over 270 ERC-20 listings and 25 stakeable assets.

Speed and stability

Low latency digital asset trading. Baseline round-trip latency of 2.5ms with 99.9% uptime and over a million requests per minute.

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Features

Designed for institutions

Subaccounts

Trade and manage multiple trading strategies separately, by adding subaccounts.

Real-time market data

Historical and real-time market data for research and backtesting. L3 and enriched data available.

API integration

Connect via API, WebSockets, REST and FIX 4.4, with the option for IP whitelisting.

Full suite of institutional-grade Kraken products

Spot trading

Trade highly liquid spot and stablecoin orderbooks via Kraken Pro or API.

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Futures for institutions

Gain crypto exposure without owning the underlying asset – available in some geographies.

Why Futures

How top trading firms scale performance with Kraken

Case study

From setup to scale, fast

Da Vinci scaled its market-making with Kraken’s low-latency FIX API, AWS colocation and tailored liquidity programs. The result was top-tier execution, improved capital efficiency and a top 3 ranking on Kraken by trading volume.

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Why Kraken?

Market share

We have been at the forefront of crypto for over a decade, with over 9 million clients in 190 countries. We are #1 in Europe with over 35% market share.

Security expertise

Kraken is secured by industry-leading security and cryptography experts.

24/7/365 support

Our award-winning, always-available Account Management team has deep expertise in crypto products and services.

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