The Montreal Canadiens have signed recently acquired and then bought out Seattle Kraken forward Joe Veleno to a one-year, $900,000 contract.

An NHL schedule tightly packed with more games over shorter time frames to accommodate the Winter Olympics sees the Kraken run a gauntlet of prior playoff teams both early and late

Kraken’s development lands as Congress advances the GENIUS and CLARITY Acts, signaling a turning point in U.S. crypto policy.

Kraken said Tuesday it rolled out a U.S.-regulated crypto derivatives platform that merges spot and futures trading into a single interface. Kraken Derivatives US allows eligible users to trade futures alongside one of the world’s most liquid cryptocurrency spot markets,

Amid buoyant crypto markets and growing mainstream acceptance of digital currencies, Kraken is racing to establish itself as a one-stop digital asset investing platform.

The debut comes on the heels of acquiring CFTC-regulated futures trading platform NinjaTrader for $1.5 billion.

Kraken unlocks global access to U.S. stocks with 24/5 tokenized trading powered by Solana-based xStocks. Kraken has announced the phased rollout of tokenized U.S. equities for eligible non-U.S. users, a major initiative aimed at democratizing access to global financial markets.