Derivatives Platform Maintenance

Scheduled Maintenance Report for Kraken

Completed

The platform is back online and post-only has been removed.
Posted Aug 20, 2026 - 07:17 UTC

Verifying

The platform is in post-only mode while checks are being performed. Orders can be placed or cancelled, but no executions or liquidations can occur until post-only is removed.
Posted Aug 20, 2026 - 07:07 UTC

In progress

Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Posted Aug 20, 2026 - 07:00 UTC

Scheduled

The Derivatives platform will be unavailable for approximately 15 minutes on Thursday (August 20th) at 07:00 UTC as we perform site maintenance. There will be a period of 'post-only' once the platform is back online and checks are being completed.

Changes in release:
- Coarsening tick_size on multiple contracts as listed below:
Contract Current tick New tick
PF_DASHUSD 0.001 0.01
PF_DOGEUSD 0.000001 0.00001
PF_SOONUSD 0.00001 0.0001
PF_TRXUSD 0.000001 0.00001
PF_XRPUSD 0.00001 0.0001
Posted Aug 19, 2026 - 11:55 UTC
This scheduled maintenance affected: Kraken Derivatives (User Interface, Single Sign-On, REST API, Websocket API, Cross-Exchange Transfers) and Kraken MTF (User Interface, Single Sign-On, REST API, Websocket API, Cross-Exchange Transfers).