Payward is partnering with @Ledger to connect Ledger’s security infrastructure with Payward’s global financial rails. Kraken customers will be able to use Ledger signers directly in Kraken, while Ledger Wallet™ will leverage @PaywardServices infrastructure to power buy, sell, and swap flows and offer tokenized equities through xStocks to its global userbase.

Would you look at the time? ⏱️ Payward Pulse: Episode 5 is here. → Nasdaq Ventures invests $100M in Payward → Plans to bring onchain perps to the US starting on @HyperliquidX → @xStocksFi Vaults go live → Kraken becomes an 𝕏 Cashtag launch partner Catch up 👇

Nasdaq Ventures is investing $100M in Payward as we advance tokenization together with the @Nasdaq Equity Token (NET) framework. Equities on-chain only works if it's built to institutional standard from day one. We're building it with the company that's run public market infrastructure for decades. →

Payward and the London Stock Exchange are partnering to advance the tokenization of UK equity markets. In the coming weeks, the 100 largest London-listed equities will go live as xStocks, bringing 24/7, programmable onchain access to investors in more than 110 countries.

Payward has joined @AnthropicAI's Project Glasswing, and are actively incorporating Claude Mythos 5, Anthropic's most capable model for finding and fixing software vulnerabilities, into our defensive cybersecurity work.

Q1 2026: Payward Financial Highlights live. Q1 was a solid quarter against a genuinely tough backdrop. ✔️ Adjusted Revenue of $507 million, up 3% year-over-year ✔️ Assets on Platform: $40 billion, up 11% year-over-year ✔️ Funded Accounts: 6.1 million, up 47% year-over-year ✔️ Futures DARTs: Up 51% year-over-year ✔️ Adjusted EBITDA: $18 million — profitable, and still investing We grew revenue. We grew our asset base. We grew our client count. We remained profitable. We continued investing in strategic M&A, as well as in the products and infrastructure that drive the business forward.

📣 Payward and @FTDA_US announced a strategic collaboration to advance tokenized assets and institutional digital finance. This collaboration will accelerate adoption of tokenized investments, integrate BENJI and co-design a new suite of tokenized yield products. @DavidLRipley @DigitalFinForum @SALTConference @Krakenfx @xStocksFi Read more:

$30,000,000,000 The industry standard for tokenized equities, measured. xStocks leads with: ❎ +120,000 unique onchain holders ❎ +60% total volume in the category ❎ Dozens of DeFi integrations ❎ Live on 6 chains and growing

Today at @SALTConference: Payward (parent of @Krakenfx and @xStocksFi) and @FTDA_US announced a strategic collaboration to bring traditional financial products onchain, and to build a new generation of tokenized investments together. Watch the announcement live 📺

We're acquiring Reap. Card networks. Banking rails. Blockchains. One platform. Stablecoin-powered. @reapglobal expands @PaywardServices with globally regulated card issuance and stablecoin payments. Financial infrastructure for the next era of global payments.

Protecting clients isn't just a regulatory obligation. It's how we operate. @Payward supported Operation Atlantic — a coordinated global effort that identified $45M+ in suspected criminal proceeds and 20,000+ potential victims 👇

We're acquiring @Bitnomial. The first fully CFTC-licensed derivatives exchange built from the ground up for crypto. Not retrofitted. Not adapted. Built for this. Pair that with Kraken's global client base, @NinjaTrader's reach, and Payward's liquidity - and regulated crypto derivatives just got a serious upgrade in the US.

Payward is committing $25M to $ORBS, part of a $125M round w/ ARK, Pantera, Coinfund & others. "Capital deployed at that convergence has the potential to scale non-linearly, and we're excited to support a strategy designed to capture that asymmetry" — @arjunsethi

A historic moment for crypto. Kraken Financial has been granted a Federal Reserve master account, making us the first digital asset bank with direct access to the U.S. payments system. A major step toward connecting crypto infrastructure with the core rails of global finance.

Kraken x Magna 🤝 We’re excited to announce that we have acquired @magna_digital to bring vesting, claims, staking, custody & token ops into a broader end-to-end stack. For builders, this means institutional-grade lifecycle infrastructure, not just liquidity.

Announcing Payward’s FY 2025 financial results—and alongside them, a clearer articulation of Payward’s role as the unified infrastructure layer powering Kraken and a growing family of products, including @NinjaTrader, @breakoutprop, @xStocksFi, and future products yet to be launched. Payward enables each product to be purpose-built for a specific customer segment, regulatory regime, and use case, while operating on shared foundations: ∙ One global liquidity pool ∙ One risk & margin engine ∙ One collateral & settlement system ∙ One compliance & licensing framework Beginning in 2025, Payward has taken on a more explicit role as the infrastructure layer supporting multiple product surfaces and interfaces. Last was a year defined by execution: shipping across the entire product suite, launching, scaling, and integrating at a pace that reflected both operational maturity and long-term conviction. Growth was driven by strong core product momentum and meaningful contributions from recent acquisitions. 📈 FY 2025 highlights: ∙$2.2B adjusted revenue (+33% YoY) ∙$531M adjusted EBITDA (+26% YoY) ∙$2.0T platform transaction volume (+34% YoY) ∙$48.2B assets on platform (+11% YoY) ∙ 5.7M funded accounts (+50% YoY) ∙ Futures DARTs up 119%, driven by NinjaTrader and Breakout integration FY 2025 established a new baseline for Payward’s scale, earnings power, and long-term ambition. Learn more 👇