Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi criticizes UK crypto promotion rules requiring clear risk warnings, saying they hinder retail investors by slowing fund movement (Nikou Asgari/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3e5cfd5a-f1b6-4213-aac5-81da088306da
Kraken Officially Splits into Two Combat Units: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/10/kraken-officially-splits-into-two.html
Kraken, the software arm of π¬π§ Octopus Energy, extends into distribution network territory. Essential Energy π¦πΊ is the first DSO customer.
https://kraken.tech/press-releases/essential-energy-kraken-build-next-generation-network-billing
Kraken opens trading of 60 tokenized US securities to its EU users, powered by Backed Finance's xStocks; rwa.xyz says tokenized shares' market value is ~$421M (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-0β¦
Source: cryptocurrency exchange Kraken quietly closed a $500M funding round at a $15B valuation, including from co-CEO Arjun Sethi's Tribe Capital (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/09/25/kraken-ipo-ceo/
Sources: Kraken is in advanced talks to raise $200M to $300M from a strategic investor at a valuation of ~$20B, after recently raising $500M at a $15B valuation (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-26/kβ¦
Kraken acquires Small Exchange, a US-licensed futures exchange, from the IG Group, for $32.5M in cash and $67.5M in Kraken parent's Payward stock (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-16/β¦
British renewable energy startup Octopus Energy spins off its AI arm, Kraken, in what could create a stand-alone entity worth $15B (Yusuf Khan/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/octopus-energy-to-sβ¦
The US starts publishing GDP data on nine public blockchains including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana, with the help of Coinbase, Kraken, and Gemini (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-28/us-puts-gdp-data-on-thβ¦