Kraken Prime
@KrakenPrimeHQ
Trusted prime brokerage bringing trading, custody, liquidity and financing together.
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Tokenization only becomes valuable when it connects to the infrastructure people already use.
Custody, exchanges, institutional APIs, fintechs, and applications.
Over the past few months:
- @coinbase selected Centrifuge as a Preferred Tokenization Infrastructure
- @KrakenInsto integrated $JAAA into qualified custody
- @okx opened access to $deJTRSY and $deJAAA, arriving on @XLayerOfficial
- @ground_onchain integrated API access to $JTRSY and $JAAA
- @labs_compass made $deSPXA and $deJAAA callable by applications and AI agents
That's the direction we're building toward: tokenized assets that plug directly into the markets they're built to serve.
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@Bfaviero joined @KrakenInsto in building a crypto prime broker: qualified custody, OTC, API trading, lending. he got there by selling in Magna, the token cap-table company he founded. builder to institutional backbone
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HYPE (by @HyperliquidX ) is live in qualified custody!
Institutional clients can now hold HYPE in Kraken Custody, protected by the same controls as every other asset
They can stake, earn yield and borrow against their holdings
More with HYPE coming soon 👀
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Custody at Kraken Institutional isn't passive storage, it's the starting point for staking, yield and financing, all without assets leaving custody.
We're working with @VFXBlockchain to explore how to bring programmable Bitcoin into qualified custody.
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Trust isn't just insurance and licenses. It's whether the system prevents a single point of failure.
With Kraken institutional, qualified custody means:
🔐 No single key holds your assets (HSM + MPC)
🔐No single pool absorbs a failure (segregated, unencumbered)
🔐No single approver moves funds (quorum, human or API key)
🔐$100M insured
Qualified custody everyone on your team can trust:
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Hear from our Head of Institutional Sales @Bfaviero at @StanfordSBA for his read on where institutional demand is moving and what they expect with their access to crypto.
📍Stanford Blockchain Summit, Thursday July 30th
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🚨BASS Speaker Announcement🚨
@Bfaviero Head of Protocol & Institutional Sales of @KrakenInsto
Upshift co-founder @aya_kantor is live now on Stabledash.
Yesterday, we launched our integration with @KrakenInsto to offer custom, permissioned vaults via qualified custody.
Tune in to hear how institutions are coming to DeFi through Upshift vaults.
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Custom vaults with @upshift_fi for every client, every strategy.
One Kraken relationship covers the full institutional stack: custody, prime execution, OTC, staking, lending and now onchain yield.
Listen for more 👇
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" @krakenfx is truly setting the gold standard for this."
"Every single deal that we've looked at has been very custom. The reason for that is because the end user and client has a different geography, user, and asset type that they're looking to service, and then audit and report on it in a different way to a different regulatory body."
@aya_kantor, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of @upshift_fi, says yield is just one piece of the @KrakenInsto deal.
"If you think about this offering with Kraken, this is just the tip of the iceberg. It's really the entire prime stack. How do you enable crypto earn and stablecoin solutions and remittances and asset movement and flow of funds? And Kraken just launched cards. How do you offer that full suite of products to some of these end users, with earn being a subset of that?"
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Welcome pathUSD to Qualified Custody!
Earlier this year, we partnered with @tempo to bring institutional-grade infrastructure to stablecoin payments ecosystem.
Now institutions can:
- Hold pathUSD in QC
- Trade on margin
- Access liquidity
- Borrow
All without ever moving their assets.
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Idle treasury assets shouldn't sit still.
Kraken Institutional and @upshift_fi are bringing custom, permissioned onchain vaults into qualified custody, so eligible clients can put idle BTC, ETH and stablecoins to work without standing up new wallets and counterparties.
Via @TheBlock__:
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Institutional Vaults on Kraken, powered by Upshift.
Eligible @KrakenInsto Institutional clients can now put idle treasury assets to work in permissioned, curated onchain vaults, directly from Kraken's qualified custody, without new wallets or extra counterparties.
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Why did BTC move 4% today?
Could be because core CPI came in flat month over month vs +0.2% expected, with core year over year at 3.5% vs 3.8%. 2 year yields fell 10bps, the biggest move in 10 months.
Softer inflation data pulls forward rate cut expectations, and risk assets are repricing accordingly.
Kraken Institutional stays on top of the global macro environment shaping crypto markets 🌎👀
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Kraken to launch agentic trading as crypto exchanges evolve beyond crypto
MiCA-regulated exchanges, ranked by @DefiLlama:
🥇 Spot liquidity: Kraken ($399M)
🥇 Perp liquidity: Kraken ($207M)
🥇 Market coverage: Kraken (1,704 markets)
Institutions don't have to choose between regulated and liquid with Kraken Institutional.
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Your BTC can do more than sit in cold storage. Kraken Institutional clients can put it to work:
✓ USD loans at 150% LTV
✓ BTC strategies with Bitwise
✓ Covered-call yield on custodied BTC
All within secure, qualified custody 🔐
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Within @KrakenInsto's qualified custody, $JAAA settles instantly, 24/7, and serves as collateral without leaving the custody account.
@KrakenFX's article covers how it works, and what comes after JAAA:
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BTC is largely unchanged after this morning's jobs report, which makes sense
Headline unemployment fell to 4.2% but the drop was driven by people leaving the labor force, not actual job gains
A murky report = no clear rate signal = crypto waits
Trading and asset utility on Kraken Institutional - our eyes are always on the global market 🤝
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Tomorrow's jobs report matters for crypto.
Any sense of a stronger-than-expected economy → markets price in the Fed hiking or holding longer → higher short-term rates. Consensus is +115k NFP (monthly jobs), 4.3% unemployment.
Any meaningful move higher in rate expectations may be bearish for crypto in the near term.
Kraken Institutional team keeps an eye on macro markets. More to come tomorrow.
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Tomorrow's jobs report matters for crypto.
Any sense of a stronger-than-expected economy → markets price in the Fed hiking or holding longer → higher short-term rates. Consensus is +115k NFP (monthly jobs), 4.3% unemployment.
Any meaningful move higher in rate expectations may be bearish for crypto in the near term.
Kraken Institutional team keeps an eye on macro markets. More to come tomorrow.
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In more than 30 years, no AAA CLO has ever defaulted.
$JAAA brings that asset class onchain.
The first tokenized fund in @KrakenInsto's qualified custody, where positions earn the underlying yield and can be used as collateral for borrowing, trading, and treasury strategies.
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Kraken Custody’s 1st RWA (by @centrifuge) is a AAA CLO
CLOs like JAAA may generate yield less sensitive to Fed rate moves than a money market fund
→ Different strategy, different exposure
Kraken Custody offers multiple ways to put your assets to work
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