Kraken

On September 18, 2026 Payward, Kraken's parent, said it was filing the required rules and product terms with the CFTC and SEC through Bitnomial, its US-regulated exchange and clearinghouse, to offer single-stock perpetual futures to eligible US traders. The launch set is 10 US equities including Apple, Nvidia, Tesla, Microsoft and Amazon, trading 24/5 with no expiry or rollovers. Coinbase Derivatives and Kalshi lodged competing applications dated the same day, so the filing stakes Kraken's claim to a new US equity-derivatives revenue line built on the Bitnomial licences.

Source: Crypto Briefing

On Sept 14, 2026 Kraken launched xStocks Vaults, letting eligible clients (EEA and other supported markets; not the US, UK, UAE, Canada or Australia) deposit tokenized SPYx, QQQx and NVDAx into onchain yield strategies. Launch APYs are estimated at 2% for SPYx and QQQx and 1.8% for NVDAx, net of fees. Assets move through Kraken's Ink layer-2 into Veda vault infrastructure, with Sentora running the strategy and Kamino on Solana as the lending market; a 25% protocol performance fee applies. The launch pushes Kraken's tokenized-equity business into DeFi yield ahead of its Nasdaq-backed tokenization plans.

Source: Business Wire (Kraken)