Payward outlines unified financial infrastructure strategy for Kraken
- —Kraken reports 6.6 million funded accounts and $40–50 billion in assets
- —The $1.5 billion NinjaTrader deal added US futures brokerage infrastructure
- —The $550 million Bitnomial acquisition strengthened Payward's derivatives business
- —Nasdaq will invest $100 million in Payward and launch Nasdaq Equity tokens in Q2 2027
Why it matters: The unified regulated infrastructure model could mark the next stage after the Everything Exchange concept and intensify competition with Coinbase and Binance.
Source: CoinSpot