Funding for Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Bitcoin SV (BSV) has now been enabled. Deposits for BCH require 15 confirmations before being credited and BSV requires 30. If you generate an address for BCH the same address will be generated for BSV allowing you to split your coins when depositing to Kraken. We will continue to monitor the situation.
Posted Nov 22, 2018 - 09:12 UTC
Update
Kraken will be crediting all clients who held BCH at the time of the hard fork with an equal balance of Bitcoin SV (BSV). As previously stated, the Bitcoin ABC chain will continue to be represented by the current ticker symbol of BCH. Kraken has launched three Bitcoin SV (BSV) trading pairs, BSV/BTC, BSV/USD, & BSV/EUR. As for funding, we are currently monitoring both the BSV and BCH networks and will not enable deposits or withdrawals in either token until we think it is safe to do so. Funding may be enabled sometime this week, though it could take longer. For more details, please see our new blog post: https://blog.kraken.com/post/1928/
Posted Nov 19, 2018 - 00:40 UTC
Verifying
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) funding remains offline while we monitor the outcome of the hard fork update. Please note that, as previously announced, the BCH ticker symbol on Kraken now refers to the Bitcoin ABC chain of Bitcoin Cash. All current balances of BCH now represent tokens on the Bitcoin ABC chain. At this time we do not have an estimated timeframe for bringing BCH funding back online.
Posted Nov 16, 2018 - 18:05 UTC
In progress
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) funding has been taken offline in preparation of the upcoming hard fork update. Until funding is brought back online, BCH withdrawals cannot be sent, nor will any funds sent to a BCH deposit address be credited. After the hard fork, we will monitor the situation closely and bring funding back online only once we believe it is safe to do so. BCH trading remains online. We do not currently have an estimated timeframe for bringing BCH funding back online, but we will provide updates once we have more information to share.
Posted Nov 15, 2018 - 15:36 UTC
Scheduled
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is scheduled to upgrade through a hard fork at approximately 4:40 PM UTC on 2018-11-15. Deposits and withdrawals will be taken offline approximately one hour before the fork. We will only bring funding back online once we consider it safe to do so; we do not know in advance how long this may take. BCH trading will remain online during this time. Further information on the fork can be read on our blog post here: https://blog.kraken.com/post/1917/
Posted Nov 14, 2018 - 18:20 UTC
This scheduled maintenance affected: Digital Currency Funding (Bitcoin Cash (BCH)).