Kraken
Kraken is one of the world's largest and longest-running cryptocurrency exchanges, founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco. Kraken offers Spot and Futures trading, staking and yield through Kraken Earn, NFT marketplace access, OTC services, custody, prime brokerage, and a B2B Embed surface for partners. Kraken exposes a comprehensive set of APIs spanning REST, WebSocket, and FIX across the Spot exchange, Futures exchange (Kraken Futures, formerly Crypto Facilities), institutional services (Custody, OTC, Prime), and partner integration surfaces (Embed, Ramp, OAuth).
Reference-quality API operations across every facet — a rich contract, published governance, transparent operations, and machine-readable commercial terms.
API Evangelist profiles Kraken the way a machine reads it — 389 machine-readable artifacts across 24 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Kraken scores 74.3/100 (exemplar), with a separate agent-readiness read of 80/100 (agent native). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Kraken
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Kraken. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 24
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Kraken Spot WebSocket API v2
Real-time market data and private user data over WebSocket v2 using subscribe/unsubscribe semantics. Public channels include ticker (L1), book (L2), trade, ohlc, instrument, and...
Kraken Spot WebSocket API v1 (Legacy)
Legacy Kraken Spot WebSocket API. Continues to operate alongside v2 but v2 is the recommended path for new integrations. Public channels include ticker, book, trade, ohlc, sprea...
Kraken Futures WebSocket API
Real-time market data and private user feeds for Kraken Futures over WebSocket. Public feeds include trade, book, ticker, ticker_lite, heartbeat; private feeds include fills, op...
Kraken FIX API
FIX 4.4 / 5.0 SP2 protocol access for Kraken Spot and Futures, used by institutional and high-frequency clients. Provides order management (NewOrderSingle, OrderCancelRequest, O...
Kraken NFT API
REST API for Kraken's NFT marketplace surfaces: collections, asset lookups, listings, offers, watchlist, and user portfolio views. The NFT API is consumed alongside the Spot RES...
Kraken Earn API
REST endpoints for Kraken Earn (staking, yield, rewards). Lists strategies, allocates funds to a strategy, deallocates funds, and surfaces allocation status and reward history.
Kraken Embed REST API
B2B integration API enabling partners to embed Kraken trading, custody, and Earn capabilities into their own products. Provides user management, assets, deposits, withdrawals, q...
Kraken OAuth REST API
OAuth 2.0 authorization surface allowing third-party applications to request scoped delegated access to a Kraken account holder's data and trading capabilities.
Kraken Ramp REST API
Fiat on/off-ramp API surface that lets partner applications offer crypto purchase and conversion experiences powered by Kraken liquidity.
Kraken Custody REST API
Institutional custody API providing programmatic access to vaulting, sub-vaulting, wallet generation, transfers, and policy/governance configuration for assets held in Kraken Cu...
Kraken OTC REST API
Over-the-counter execution API for institutional clients to request quotes (RFQ), execute block trades, and retrieve OTC trade history.
Kraken Prime REST + WebSocket + FIX API
Prime brokerage API surface (REST, WebSocket, FIX) for institutional clients consolidating execution, custody, financing, and reporting under a single relationship.
Kraken Account API
Accounts, positions, orders, fills
Kraken Account Data API
Private endpoints returning account-scoped data
Kraken Auth API
API key checks
Kraken Charts API
OHLC candle data and analytics
Kraken Earn API
Staking and yield allocation endpoints
Kraken Funding API
Private endpoints for deposits, withdrawals, and transfers
Kraken History API
Account, execution, order, trigger, and market history
Kraken Market Data API
Public market data (no authentication required)
Kraken Subaccounts API
Subaccount creation and inter-account transfers
Kraken Trading API
Order placement, edit, and cancellation
Kraken Transfers API
Wallet, margin, and subaccount transfers
Kraken WebSocket API
Endpoints that mint tokens for private WebSocket subscriptions
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Postman Collections 2
A runnable collection turns the contract into something a developer can execute in seconds. We profile them because the fastest way to trust an API is to make a real call against it.
Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.
Kraken Futures REST API
POSTMANKraken Spot REST API
POSTMANOpen Collections 2
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Kraken Futures REST API
OPEN COLLECTIONKraken Spot REST API
OPEN COLLECTIONArazzo Workflows 11
Real integrations are rarely a single call. Arazzo describes the multi-step sequences — auth, then create, then confirm — so both a human and an agent can follow the choreography, not just the endpoints.
Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.
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ARAZZOKraken Balance-Aware Spot Buy
Read the account balance and live ticker, then branch on funding before buying.
ARAZZOKraken Cancel and Replace a Spot Order
Inspect an order, cancel it, then place a replacement order.
ARAZZOKraken Allocate Earn Funds and Confirm
Pick an Earn strategy, allocate funds, then poll until the allocation settles.
ARAZZOKraken Fund the Futures Wallet from Spot
Check spot balance, transfer to the futures wallet, then confirm it landed.
ARAZZOKraken Futures Account Snapshot
Pull account balances, open positions, and recent fills for a futures risk view.
ARAZZOKraken Place a Futures Order
Check instrument status and ticker, place a futures order, then confirm it is open.
ARAZZOKraken Preflight and Place Spot Order
Check system status and live ticker, place a spot order, then confirm it.
ARAZZOKraken Reconcile Spot Trade History
Pull trade history, drill into specific trades, then tie them to ledger entries.
ARAZZOKraken Withdraw Funds with Fee Preview
Check balance and withdrawal fees, withdraw to a saved address, then track status.
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MCP Servers 1
Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
kraken-mcp.yml
MCP SERVERGraphQL 1
Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.
GraphQL schemas published by this provider.
Kraken GraphQL Schema
This document describes a conceptual GraphQL schema for the Kraken cryptocurrency exchange API. Kraken's public API is REST and WebSocket based (see the [Kraken REST API docs](h...
GRAPHQLPricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Kraken Plans Pricing
PLANSRate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Kraken Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Kraken Finops
FINOPSFeatures 12
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
Spot Trading
Spot trading on 200+ cryptocurrency pairs with limit, market, stop loss, take profit, stop-loss-limit, take-profit-limit, settle position, trailing stop, and iceberg order types.
Margin Trading
Margin trading on supported pairs with leverage up to 5x for eligible users in eligible jurisdictions.
Futures Trading
Perpetual and fixed-maturity futures on Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other major assets via Kraken Futures.
Kraken Earn (Staking and Yield)
On-chain and off-chain staking plus opt-in bonded yield strategies across supported proof-of-stake and DeFi assets.
NFT Marketplace
Browse, list, bid, and buy NFTs across Ethereum and Solana with gas-free transactions and fiat settlement.
Subaccounts
Logical subaccount creation and inter-account transfers for institutional and family-office structuring.
Embed (B2B Integration)
White-label trading, custody, and Earn primitives that partners can embed into their own consumer or business products.
OAuth Delegated Access
OAuth 2.0 surface enabling third-party apps to act on a user's behalf with scoped permissions.
Co-located Connectivity
Colocation endpoints in London (colo-london.*) for ultra-low-latency access to Spot, Futures, FIX, and WebSocket surfaces.
FIX Connectivity
FIX 4.4 / 5.0 SP2 connectivity for institutional execution and market data flows.
WebSocket v2 with Authenticated Trading
Modern WebSocket v2 surface supporting subscribe/unsubscribe for market data and authenticated request/response trading methods.
Cancel on Disconnect
Automatic cancellation of resting orders when the trading session terminates, protecting algorithmic strategies from runaway risk.
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Event Specifications 1
Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.
AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.
Kraken Spot WebSocket API v2
Public WebSocket API for the Kraken cryptocurrency exchange (Spot v2). Provides real-time market data through subscribe/unsubscribe semantics over JSON. Channels documented here...
ASYNCAPISemantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Kraken Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 3
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
JSON Schema 117
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
Account
JSON SCHEMAAccountsResponse
JSON SCHEMAEditOrderFuturesRequest
JSON SCHEMAInstrument
JSON SCHEMAInstrumentsResponse
JSON SCHEMASendOrderRequest
JSON SCHEMATicker
JSON SCHEMATickersResponse
JSON SCHEMAAsset
JSON SCHEMABookData
JSON SCHEMABookEnvelope
JSON SCHEMACandle
JSON SCHEMAInstrumentEnvelope
JSON SCHEMAOHLCEnvelope
JSON SCHEMAPair
JSON SCHEMAPingRequest
JSON SCHEMAPongResponse
JSON SCHEMAPriceLevel
JSON SCHEMASubscribeBookRequest
JSON SCHEMASubscribeInstrumentRequest
JSON SCHEMASubscribeOHLCRequest
JSON SCHEMASubscribeRequestBase
JSON SCHEMASubscribeTickerRequest
JSON SCHEMASubscribeTradeRequest
JSON SCHEMASubscriptionStatusResponse
JSON SCHEMATickerEnvelope
JSON SCHEMATicker
JSON SCHEMATradeEnvelope
JSON SCHEMATrade
JSON SCHEMAUnsubscribeBookRequest
JSON SCHEMAUnsubscribeInstrumentRequest
JSON SCHEMAUnsubscribeOHLCRequest
JSON SCHEMAUnsubscribeRequestBase
JSON SCHEMAUnsubscribeTickerRequest
JSON SCHEMAUnsubscribeTradeRequest
JSON SCHEMAAccountTransferRequest
JSON SCHEMAAccountTransferResponse
JSON SCHEMAAddOrderBatchRequest
JSON SCHEMAAddOrderBatchResponse
JSON SCHEMAAddOrderRequest
JSON SCHEMAAddOrderResponse
JSON SCHEMAAmendOrderRequest
JSON SCHEMAAmendOrderResponse
JSON SCHEMAAssetInfoResponse
JSON SCHEMAAssetInfo
JSON SCHEMAAssetPair
JSON SCHEMAAssetPairsResponse
JSON SCHEMABalanceExResponse
JSON SCHEMABalanceResponse
JSON SCHEMACancelAllAfterRequest
JSON SCHEMACancelAllAfterResponse
JSON SCHEMACancelAllResponse
JSON SCHEMACancelOrderBatchRequest
JSON SCHEMACancelOrderBatchResponse
JSON SCHEMACancelOrderRequest
JSON SCHEMACancelOrderResponse
JSON SCHEMAClosedOrdersRequest
JSON SCHEMAClosedOrdersResponse
JSON SCHEMACreateSubaccountRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateSubaccountResponse
JSON SCHEMADepositAddressesRequest
JSON SCHEMADepositAddressesResponse
JSON SCHEMADepositMethodsResponse
JSON SCHEMADepositStatusRequest
JSON SCHEMADepositStatusResponse
JSON SCHEMAEarnAllocateRequest
JSON SCHEMAEarnAllocationsResponse
JSON SCHEMAEarnSimpleResponse
JSON SCHEMAEarnStatusResponse
JSON SCHEMAEarnStrategiesRequest
JSON SCHEMAEarnStrategiesResponse
JSON SCHEMAEarnStrategy
JSON SCHEMAEditOrderRequest
JSON SCHEMAEditOrderResponse
JSON SCHEMAFundingTxn
JSON SCHEMALedgerEntry
JSON SCHEMALedgersRequest
JSON SCHEMALedgersResponse
JSON SCHEMAOHLCResponse
JSON SCHEMAOpenOrdersRequest
JSON SCHEMAOpenOrdersResponse
JSON SCHEMAOpenPositionsRequest
JSON SCHEMAOpenPositionsResponse
JSON SCHEMAOrderBookResponse
JSON SCHEMAOrderBook
JSON SCHEMAOrderInfo
JSON SCHEMAPosition
JSON SCHEMAQueryLedgersRequest
JSON SCHEMAQueryLedgersResponse
JSON SCHEMAQueryOrdersRequest
JSON SCHEMAQueryOrdersResponse
JSON SCHEMAQueryTradesRequest
JSON SCHEMAQueryTradesResponse
JSON SCHEMARecentSpreadsResponse
JSON SCHEMARecentTradesResponse
JSON SCHEMAServerTimeResponse
JSON SCHEMASystemStatusResponse
JSON SCHEMATickerResponse
JSON SCHEMATicker
JSON SCHEMATradeBalanceRequest
JSON SCHEMATradeBalanceResponse
JSON SCHEMATradeInfo
JSON SCHEMATradeVolumeRequest
JSON SCHEMATradeVolumeResponse
JSON SCHEMATradesHistoryRequest
JSON SCHEMATradesHistoryResponse
JSON SCHEMAWalletTransferRequest
JSON SCHEMAWalletTransferResponse
JSON SCHEMAWebSocketsTokenResponse
JSON SCHEMAWithdrawCancelRequest
JSON SCHEMAWithdrawCancelResponse
JSON SCHEMAWithdrawInfoRequest
JSON SCHEMAWithdrawInfoResponse
JSON SCHEMAWithdrawRequest
JSON SCHEMAWithdrawResponse
JSON SCHEMAWithdrawStatusRequest
JSON SCHEMAWithdrawStatusResponse
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JSON Structure 117
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Futures Rest Account Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFutures Rest Accounts Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFutures Rest Edit Order Futures Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFutures Rest Instrument Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFutures Rest Instruments Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFutures Rest Send Order Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFutures Rest Ticker Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFutures Rest Tickers Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREKraken Asset Structure
JSON STRUCTUREKraken Book Data Structure
JSON STRUCTUREKraken Book Envelope Structure
JSON STRUCTUREKraken Candle Structure
JSON STRUCTUREKraken Instrument Envelope Structure
JSON STRUCTUREKraken Ohlc Envelope Structure
JSON STRUCTUREKraken Pair Structure
JSON STRUCTUREKraken Ping Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREKraken Pong Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREKraken Price Level Structure
JSON STRUCTUREKraken Subscribe Book Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREKraken Subscribe Instrument Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREKraken Subscribe Ohlc Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREKraken Subscribe Request Base Structure
JSON STRUCTUREKraken Subscribe Ticker Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREKraken Subscribe Trade Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREKraken Subscription Status Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREKraken Ticker Envelope Structure
JSON STRUCTUREKraken Ticker Structure
JSON STRUCTUREKraken Trade Envelope Structure
JSON STRUCTUREKraken Trade Structure
JSON STRUCTUREKraken Unsubscribe Book Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREKraken Unsubscribe Instrument Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREKraken Unsubscribe Ohlc Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREKraken Unsubscribe Request Base Structure
JSON STRUCTUREKraken Unsubscribe Ticker Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREKraken Unsubscribe Trade Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Account Transfer Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Account Transfer Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Add Order Batch Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Add Order Batch Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Add Order Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Add Order Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Amend Order Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Amend Order Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Asset Info Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Asset Info Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Asset Pair Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Asset Pairs Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Balance Ex Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Balance Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Cancel All After Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Cancel All After Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Cancel All Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Cancel Order Batch Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Cancel Order Batch Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Cancel Order Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Cancel Order Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Closed Orders Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Closed Orders Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Create Subaccount Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Create Subaccount Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Deposit Addresses Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Deposit Addresses Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Deposit Methods Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Deposit Status Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Deposit Status Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Earn Allocate Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Earn Allocations Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Earn Simple Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Earn Status Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Earn Strategies Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Earn Strategies Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Earn Strategy Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Edit Order Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Edit Order Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Funding Txn Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Ledger Entry Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Ledgers Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Ledgers Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Ohlc Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Open Orders Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Open Orders Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Open Positions Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Open Positions Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Order Book Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Order Book Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Order Info Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Position Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Query Ledgers Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Query Ledgers Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Query Orders Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Query Orders Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Query Trades Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Query Trades Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Recent Spreads Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Recent Trades Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Server Time Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest System Status Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Ticker Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Ticker Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Trade Balance Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Trade Balance Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Trade Info Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Trade Volume Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Trade Volume Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Trades History Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Trades History Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Wallet Transfer Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Wallet Transfer Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Web Sockets Token Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Withdraw Cancel Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Withdraw Cancel Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Withdraw Info Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Withdraw Info Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Withdraw Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Withdraw Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Withdraw Status Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Rest Withdraw Status Response Structure
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Examples 71
Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
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Security Posture 4
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Use Cases 9
What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.
What developers build with this provider.
Algorithmic Spot Trading
Build and operate automated trading strategies against Kraken Spot using REST for order management and WebSocket v2 for low-latency market data and execution streams.
Cross-Exchange Arbitrage
Use real-time order book and ticker feeds with low-latency colocation endpoints to power arbitrage strategies across Kraken and other venues.
Derivatives Market Making
Run market-making strategies on Kraken Futures using batched order entry, WebSocket fills, and FIX for high-volume connectivity.
Treasury and Custody Operations
Manage corporate or fund treasury balances using Kraken Custody and programmatic transfers, deposits, and withdrawals.
Staking-as-a-Service
Offer staking and yield products to end users via Kraken Earn allocation/deallocation endpoints, exposed through your own product.
Embedded Crypto Brokerage
Partners (fintechs, neobanks, wallets) use Kraken Embed to add trading, conversion, and custody capabilities to their own apps without building exchange infrastructure.
NFT Portfolio Management
Use the NFT API to power portfolio dashboards, valuation feeds, and collection-level analytics.
AI Agent Trading
Use the Kraken CLI's built-in MCP server (or the community oilst/kraken-mcp) to let LLM agents place orders, manage positions, and stream market data with tool-calling.
Tax and Reporting Pipelines
Pull trades history, ledgers, deposits, and withdrawals to drive tax-lot accounting, regulatory reporting, and audit pipelines.
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Integrations 5
Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.
Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.
Crypto Facilities (Kraken Futures)
Kraken Futures uses the Crypto Facilities REST v3 and WebSocket v1 protocols, with public GitHub example clients in multiple languages.
Kraken Wallet
Self-custody wallet that signs transactions locally; integrates with dApps and uses Kraken-published OAuth helpers.
Model Context Protocol
The Kraken CLI ships an embedded MCP server so any MCP-compatible agent runtime (Claude, Gemini, Cursor) can drive Kraken accounts.
TradingView
Kraken markets are available as a charting source on TradingView, and Kraken Pro embeds TradingView charts in its web client.
CCXT
Kraken Spot is supported as a first-class exchange adapter in the CCXT cryptocurrency exchange library.
Solutions 4
Packaged solutions the provider offers on top of the raw API surface.
Packaged solutions this provider offers.
Kraken
The simplified Kraken consumer app for buying, selling, sending, and staking crypto with a fixed 1.0% / 1.5% spread on instant and custom orders.
Kraken Pro
The advanced trading platform with full Spot, Margin, and Futures surfaces, volume-tiered maker/taker fees from 0.25%/0.40% down to 0.00%/0.10% at $10M+ 30-day USD volume.
Kraken Institutional
Institutional offering bundling Custody, OTC, Prime brokerage, colocation, FIX, and dedicated relationship management.
Kraken Embed
B2B integration platform letting partners offer Kraken trading, custody, and Earn primitives inside their own products.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Kraken — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 4
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Agent Surfaces 4
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 18
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 20
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
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Access & Security 6
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 4
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 5
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 2
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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