Digital Currency Exchange Kraken Acquires Bitcoin Buying Service
San Francisco-based digital currency exchange has acquired wallet funding service Glidera. The acquisition of Glidera, the terms of which were not disclosed, is the latest for Kraken, which has spent the past year snapping up other startups in the exchange space. In January, Kraken announced that it had bought New York-based exchange Coinsetter, which itself had moved to acquire CAVirtex in April 2015. In June, the exchange expanded its European footprint when it announced the purchase of CleverCoin, based in the Netherlands. As part of the integration of the two services, Glidera – which....
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Integrating the Glidera services into Bitcoin wallets is very straightforward. Significant acquisitions occur in the cryptocurrency world on a regular basis. Kraken, one of the leading global digital asset exchanges, acquired wallet funding service Glidera. This allows for the future integration of Bitcoin buying and selling option form within Bitcoin wallet solutions. In fact, Glidera’s services are present in 10 of the world’s leading Bitcoin wallets to date. Kraken has been on an aggressive M&A spree all throughout 2016. Of are, the company acquired three different major Bitcoin....
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