Kraken (@krakenfx) — Twitter Score 629 out of 1000

Kraken is the official account of Payward, Inc., the US-based cryptocurrency and multi-asset exchange, co-founded by Jesse Powell, Thanh Luu, and Michael Gronager. It launched publicly in September 2013 and is one of the longest-operating crypto exchanges, providing spot, futures, margin, OTC, staking, and tokenized equity trading. Kraken's Twitter Score is 629 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranked #164 (top 0.1%) out of 389,587 accounts tracked. Kraken has 1,751,422 followers as of July 2026 and 35,971 posts published since 2013.

Kraken completed a series of major acquisitions in 2025 and 2026. It acquired NinjaTrader, a leading US retail futures trading platform, for $1.5 billion in a deal announced in March 2025 and completed in May 2025, described as the largest-ever crypto-TradFi bridge transaction at the time. In December 2025, it acquired Backed Finance AG, integrating the issuance, trading, and settlement of xStocks tokenized equities, a product that surpassed $10 billion in combined on-chain and exchange trading volume within six months of launch. It also acquired Bitnomial, announced in April 2026 and closed in May 2026 for up to $550 million in cash and stock, securing a full CFTC-licensed US derivatives stack comprising a brokerage, clearinghouse, and exchange, and subsequently launched US perpetual futures trading.

Kraken raised $500 million at a $15 billion valuation in September 2025 from investors including Jane Street, DRW, HSG, Tribe Capital, and Oppenheimer, followed by an $800 million raise at a $20 billion valuation in November 2025 that included a $200 million investment from Citadel Securities. Payward confidentially submitted a draft S-1 registration statement to the SEC in November 2025 for a proposed IPO; as of March 2026, that IPO was reported to be on hold pending improved market conditions. On March 4, 2026, Kraken Financial, the exchange's Wyoming-chartered Special Purpose Depository Institution, became the first digital asset bank to receive a Federal Reserve master account, granting direct access to the Fedwire wholesale payments system.

Kraken settled with the SEC in February 2023 for $30 million in disgorgement, prejudgment interest, and civil penalties over its US crypto staking-as-a-service program, alleged to be an unregistered securities offering, and shut down US staking without admitting or denying the allegations. The SEC filed a lawsuit in November 2023 charging Kraken as an unregistered securities exchange, broker, dealer, and clearing agency; that lawsuit was dismissed in March 2025 without additional penalties or an admission of wrongdoing. In November 2022, Payward settled with OFAC for $362,158.70 over 826 alleged sanctions violations involving approximately $1,680,577 in transactions processed for users apparently located in Iran; the matter was classified as non-egregious and voluntarily self-disclosed.

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Kraken is mentioned by 3,626 accounts, with 12,698 total mentions recorded on this platform.

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Kraken attracts a broad cross-section of crypto market participants and institutional observers. The accounts that follow Kraken include 1,877 founders, 334 angel investors, 1,499 influencers and 185 VCs, among them Balaji, Erik Voorhees, Laura Shin, Toly, Solana and Stani.