Whether you’re looking for a seamless, flexible user experience or a performant API for programmatic trading, Kraken Futures offers a wide range of products on a robust, low latency, high-performance trading platform.
Why trade cryptocurrency futures?
Crypto futures are an agreement between two counterparties to buy and sell a specific amount of an underlying crypto at a specific future price on a specific date and time
They allow you to gain exposure to a wide range of cryptocurrencies without ever having to own them
Individuals and organizations that do own cryptocurrencies can use futures to hedge exposure against market movements
The Kraken Futures multi-collateral advantage
Gain exposure to a wide range of assets without owning them outright. With a variety of collateral options, you have superior flexibility when opening new positions or maintaining existing positions. And no matter what crypto you trade, you can choose to convert any profits into a currency of your choice.
The multi-collateral wallet allows you to use a variety of collateral types to manage all of your positions, without needing to move funds around. For example, you can open a position on DOT/USD, use USDT as collateral and convert any profits to bitcoin.
Kraken Futures offer leverage, allowing you to amplify your buying or selling power.
Flexibility in risk management
New margin mode functionality allows you to trade using isolated margin to limit your downside per contract, or use cross margin to utilize all of your collateral across all positions.
Trade a range of currency pairs
Gain exposure to a variety of pairs using your multi-collateral futures wallet with 7 different collateral options.
Bitcoin miners: Hedge volatility with Kraken Futures
Use futures to hedge against spot market volatility and protect mining profits – no matter which way the underlying market moves.
Kraken Futures is a trading name of Payward Brokers PTE. Ltd. (a company incorporated in Singapore with registered number 201917834G) and Payward Global Trading Pte. Ltd. (a company incorporated in Singapore with registered number 201913551K), subsidiaries of the Payward Group (known as Kraken). You should consider whether you understand how futures function and review our futures risk disclosure page. This information is not directed at clients that are ineligible for futures trading nor is it to be distributed to or used by any person in any country or jurisdiction where such distribution or use would be contrary to local law or regulation.
