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by pedalpete 1306 days ago
Along with Coinbase, my understanding is they are one of the more reputable exchanges. Looks like they are the 3rd largest exchange now behind Binance and Coinbase. https://coinmarketcap.com/rankings/exchanges/

The founder moved from CEO to Chairman earlier this year. He's always said they never have traded with customer funds, though they have offered leverage to customers, I'm not sure how that was accomplished, or what backed it.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/11/kraken-jesse-powell-crypto....

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> though they have offered leverage to customers, I'm not sure how that was accomplished, or what backed it.

Margin's pretty easy to offer on crypto exchanges. Most of the ones I've seen will do a market sell as soon as your positions become illiquid. I doubt the computation involved in doing that for all accounts perfectly is tractable though.

Interesting. So the max that can be lost is 100%? Seems like a feature that would benefit from being explained better, if that is how it works.
Yeah but they can get in real trouble if they market gapped over and went straight to 0 or illiquid