Kraken Referral Code

Kraken's referral is worth seven times what this page used to say. The conditions attached to it are specific, and one of them catches people before they start.

Kraken pays $75 in Bitcoin to each side of a successful referral — the referrer and the new customer both. Up to 20 successful referrals qualify, making the programme worth as much as $1,500. Any page quoting $10, including this one previously, is out by a factor of seven and a half.

Three conditions decide whether it pays, and the first is the one that quietly disqualifies people.

Your friend must join via the Kraken mobile app. Not the website. Someone who follows your link on a laptop, opens an account in a browser and funds it has done everything else right and will not qualify. If you are referring deliberately, say this explicitly — it is the single most avoidable failure in the programme.

They must then deposit $200 in fiat currency and trade $200 worth of crypto, both within 30 days of joining. Note that these are two separate requirements: depositing $200 and leaving it there is not enough, and trading is a distinct step. The deposit must be fiat rather than a transfer of crypto in from elsewhere.

The reward arrives as Bitcoin rather than cash, which means its value moves after you receive it. $75 of BTC is $75 at the moment of crediting and something else thereafter — worth bearing in mind if you are treating referrals as income rather than as an accumulation.

Kraken is among the older exchanges still operating, which in this sector counts for something. It traded through the collapse of FTX, Celsius, BlockFi and Voyager without failing, and the pages on this site covering those platforms exist precisely because their referral promises did not survive. Longevity is not a guarantee, but it is a data point that a signup bonus is not.

The 20-referral cap is a hard ceiling. Beyond it there is no further reward.