Kraken Digital Currency Exchange Raises $5 Million in Funding

Kraken Digital Currency Exchange Raises $5 Million in Funding

Digital currency exchange Kraken has just received a significant amount of capital - $5 million, in fact - in a funding round led by Hummingbird Ventures out of Europe. SecondMarket CEO Barry Silbert and Trace Meyer also contributed to the funding round. As one of the top-10 digital currency exchanges by volume, Kraken has gained an enormous amount of attention over the course of the past few months with their slick interface and ability to trade more than bitcoin. Other alt-currencies like litecoin, dogecoin, namecoin, and ripple can be traded on the platform. A result of their....


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