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Top reliability score right now
Kraken 88
sourced & dated · never bought
Reliability Score · methodology v1.0 · updated 2026-08-16
Kraken: 88/100
Six components, each with its reason and sources below — the timeline keeps the full incident record visible.
Score over time
Held at 88 since we began tracking on 2026-06-23 (198 daily readings, no change). The line chart appears once the score moves.
Score breakdown
Withdrawal reliability weight 25%
100
No recorded withdrawal halts or freezes within the 24-month decay window.
Proof of reserves weight 20%
80
Quarterly auditor-assisted Merkle-tree PoR with per-client self-verification, covering spot, margin, futures and staked assets (Mar/Jun/Sep/Dec 2025 releases; ~$21.5B client assets verified in Mar 2025).
Regulatory standing weight 20%
80
MiCAR CASP licence (Central Bank of Ireland, announced 2025-06-25) plus MiFID and EMI licences. Resolved actions: SEC suit dismissed with prejudice (Mar 2025, no penalty); SEC staking settlement $30M (2023); ASIC AUD 8M penalty over a margin product (Dec 2024).
Security history weight 15%
100
No recorded security incidents within the 24-month decay window.
Support quality weight 10%
68
Trustpilot 3.4/5 (~7,000 reviews, 2026-06-10) as a complaint-pattern proxy — above the mid-field of the global venues in this comparison.
Operational maturity weight 10%
88
Founded 2011 — the oldest venue in this comparison; second-tier global volume with strong EUR pairs; no platform-wide withdrawal halt documented in 36 months (asset-level pauses only, public status history); ~3h front-end outage during the Nov 2025 Cloudflare incident.
Incident timeline · facts with dates
2024-12-12
Regulatory · sev 2
Australia: Federal Court ordered operator Bit Trade to pay AUD 8M over a margin product offered without a target market determination (2024-12-12).
source2024-06-09
Security · sev 2
2024-06-09: a zero-day balance-inflation bug was exploited by security researchers (~$3M withdrawn) before disclosure; patched in 47 minutes, funds returned 2024-06-20, no client funds at risk per Kraken.
source
How this score is computed — weights, rubrics, decay, neutrality: /exchanges/methodology. All venues: /exchanges.
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Not investment advice. Skontro is not a CASP under MiCAR. Reliability Scores are information, not recommendations: every negative datapoint is dated and sourced, the methodology is public, and no exchange can pay to change a score.