Kraken News & Analysis Today

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  • Tempers flared in crypto after the weekend crash: the DeFi exchange Hyperliquid is calling out the big CEXs — crypto exchange Binance, Coinbase, Kraken — for not telling the full story on liquidations. Hyperliquid founder Jeff Yan says last Friday’s wipeout, when Bitcoin slid from $122,000 to $107,500 and more than $19B in leveraged positions got blown out (impacting 1.5M+ traders, per CoinGlass), exposed a transparency gap. Hyperliquid ran tens of billions in volume without downtime, while several centralized platforms stumbled and some traders couldn’t close positions.

  • Japanese giant SoftBank and Cathie Wood’s Ark Investment are holding early-stage discussions about taking part in Tether’s record-breaking fundraising, Bloomberg reports.

  • Coinbase has found itself in a direct showdown with U.S. banks, with stablecoins at the center of the conflict. The controversy revolves around the rewards that exchanges like crypto exchange Coinbase and Kraken pay to users who hold USDC and other stablecoins.

  • Crypto exchange FTX, in cooperation with FTX Digital Markets Ltd (FTX DM), has entered into an agreement with global fintech firm Payoneer, making it the third official distribution provider for FTX customer asset recoveries and the second for FTX DM’s liquidation process in The Bahamas.