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Kraken Debuts Krak Crypto and Fiat Payments App to Compete Against PayPal & Cashapp Across 110 Countries

Crypto exchange Kraken has debuted a peer-to-peer payments app to compete with the likes of CashApp and Vemno.  The San Francisco, California-based company released Krak on Thursday, allowing users to send and receive payments in more than 300 currencies—including crypto—to over 110 countries. Kraken’s main platform allows users to buy, sell and bet on the future price of hundreds of digital coins and tokens. 

Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi said that the app was built to compete with a financial system “stuck in the past. With Krak, we’re taking a bold step toward rebuilding what we consider to be the most important layer of the global economy: How people move and use money,” he added. 

The exchange said in an announcement that sending payments using fiat money—U.S. dollars, pounds, or euros—would be done internally, without users needing to register a bank account. Clients instead have a username called a “Kraktag,”—similar to how payment apps like Cash App, WISE, and PayPal work. Users can also earn yield with Paxos’ USDG stablecoin, the exchange added. The debut comes as Kraken, one of the biggest crypto exchanges in the world, offers new products, including stocks and exchange-traded fund trading in certain U.S. states.
Kraken also in March announced it was buying futures trading platform NinjaTrader for $1.5 billion. Users can also earn yield with Paxos’ USDG stablecoin, the exchange added.  The debut comes as Kraken, one of the biggest crypto exchanges in the world, offers new products, including stocks and exchange-traded fund trading in certain U.S. states.  Kraken also in March announced it was buying futures trading platform NinjaTrader for $1.5 billion.
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