Kraken

Kraken (legally named Payward, Inc.) is a US-based cryptocurrency exchange founded in 2011. Beyond cryptocurrencies, in most US states the exchange facilitates the trading of stocks, futures, and ETFs. Kraken was the first cryptocurrency company to obtain a bank charter. In 2025 it began allowing the trading of tokenized equities by non-US customers. In 2025 it had $207 billion in quarterly trading volume, and was ranked the world's fourteenth-largest crypto exchange.