These additions aim to further bridge the gap between traditional finance and digital assets, offering investors a unified platform to manage their portfolios.
What’s new?
1. Seamless asset transfers with ACATS
We now support the Automated Customer Account Transfer Service (ACATS), allowing users to transfer eligible stock and ETF holdings from other brokerages into their Kraken accounts directly within the platform. This feature helps streamline the process of consolidating investments, enabling users to manage both equities and crypto assets in one place. Click here to learn more.
2. Explore income opportunities with Fully Paid Securities Lending (FPSL)
Our FPSL program allows eligible Kraken users to lend certain fully paid stocks in exchange for interest payments when those securities are borrowed. By giving Kraken permission to loan out their shares, investors can generate additional income, enhancing the overall yield of their portfolios.1 We’ve made substantial upgrades to our UX, making the experience more intuitive and transparent with a clear view of what assets are on loan, estimated returns and lifetime earnings. Click here to learn more about the program.
3. Extended trading hours
Recognizing the need for flexibility, Kraken has extended its trading hours for equities.2 Users can now trade stocks and ETFs from 4:00 a.m. ET to 8:00 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, providing more opportunities to react to market developments outside of regular market hours and manage investments at times that may be more convenient.
4. Enhanced market depth information
Kraken has improved its equities platform by offering deeper market insights. Users can access comprehensive market depth data, allowing for more informed trading decisions and a better understanding of market liquidity.
Expanding our unified trading experience
Since our initial rollout in April 2025, we have offered commission-free trading on over 11,000 U.S.-listed stocks and ETFs. With these latest enhancements, we further solidify our position as a comprehensive platform where users can seamlessly manage stocks, ETFs, cryptocurrencies, cash and stablecoins.3
To ensure the platform is as useful to as broad an audience as possible, we offer features like fractional trading, enabling investors to purchase less than whole shares of high-priced stocks.
Better TradFi, built on crypto rails
Our expansion into equities is about more than just adding new assets, it’s about redefining the investment landscape. By integrating traditional financial instruments with digital assets, we offer a holistic approach to investing. This move aligns with our vision of a borderless, always-on trading environment powered by crypto infrastructure.
Experience the future of investing with Kraken
Discover how Kraken’s enhanced equities platform can simplify and enrich your investment journey. Manage your entire portfolio – stocks, ETFs and crypto – on one secure and intuitive platform.
Currently available in the U.S. only; may not be available in all states. Brokerage services are provided by Kraken Securities LLC, member FINRA/SIPC. Please view the firm’s profile, registration and background of our registered reps on https://brokercheck.finra.org/ . Digital asset services offered by Payward Interactive, not a member of FINRA/ SIPC and not FDIC insured. This is not an offer, solicitation, inducement or advice to buy or sell securities, or open a brokerage account in any jurisdiction where Kraken Securities is not registered. All trading involves risk, including loss of your investments. View full disclosures at: Equities Disclosures and Crypto Risk Disclosures .
1 Lending income is not guaranteed.
2 Extended hours trading involves additional risks, including lower liquidity, increased volatility, and wider spreads. Learn more about these risks here .
3 Although the term “stablecoin” is commonly used, there is no guarantee that the asset will maintain a stable value in relation to the value of the reference asset when traded on secondary markets or that the reserve of assets, if there is one, will be adequate to satisfy all redemptions.
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