Cryptocurrency News & Market Updates
War games: how we built Kraken to handle 10x the load
TL;DR
During the worst moments of the largest volume spike our platform had ever seen (in July 2025), about 11% of requests to our platform failed. That was unacceptable. We now run at an error rate of 0.111%, while carrying more than ten times the load.
We set a standard for load testing: the platform has to survive at least twice the heaviest load we have ever handled in production, on demand, every time we test for it.
Kraken sustains more than 230,000 successful requests per second in production, across five separate full-scale tests with zero incidents.
On February 5, 2026, one of the sharpest selloffs of past twelve months, every major service held with no incidents.
Peak demand is the only real test
No trading platform is judged on an average Tuesday. It is judged on the day Bitcoin sets a record, or the day a token sale opens and everyone arrives in the same minute. Those are the moments that tell you what a platform can actually carry.
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The Bullion Rush: trade gold and silver perps for a share of $20,000 in USDG
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Master Dollar-Cost Averaging with Bitfinex Recurring Buy
On August 11, 2020, a business intelligence company bought 21,454 Bitcoin at roughly $11,650 per coin. Then over the next 6 years, it just kept buying. It bought through euphoric all-time highs, through an 80% market drawdown, through headlines declaring Bitcoin dead (again). Today that company, Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy), holds over 843,000 BTC, more than 4% of all the Bitcoin that will ever exist, accumulated across more than a hundred separate purchases.
Aug 4, 2026 • 5 min read
Introducing Kraken Funded: trade with Kraken’s money, keep 80% of the profits
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