Kraken has launched buying and selling in additional than 7,000 US-listed shares for purchasers within the European Financial Space (EEA), increasing its conventional finance providing alongside cryptocurrencies and tokenized equities.
The crypto trade stated Tuesday that eligible EEA prospects can commerce US shares by way of Kraken Professional and its cell app below the corporate’s Markets in Monetary Devices Directive II authorization.
The shares can be found alongside greater than 600 crypto belongings and over 700 xStocks, that are tokenized variations of publicly listed equities.
The setup permits prospects to carry typical shares and tokenized representations of the identical belongings inside a single platform.
The service is offered by Payward Europe Digital Options, Kraken’s Cyprus-based funding agency. Kraken stated eligible prospects can commerce US-listed shares commission-free, topic to relevant situations. Kraken stated it plans to increase its built-in equities providing to extra markets within the coming months.
Kraken launched xStocks in 2025, providing tokenized publicity to US equities and exchange-traded funds. The corporate stated xStocks has since generated greater than $38 billion in complete transaction quantity.
As of Monday, xStocks is the second-largest tokenized inventory issuer by market capitalization, with about $609 million, behind Ondo Finance, with about $974 million, in keeping with Token Terminal knowledge. Binance’s bStocks is at the moment the third-largest issuer, with about $544 million.
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