Overview of Opt-in Rewards for German clients

This article is tailored to clients located in Germany. If you are not based in Germany please visit this article!

Supported staked assets have been migrated to the Opt-in Rewards program. Opt-in Rewards (OIR) gives you the option to earn rewards on available and idle account balances you otherwise maintain in your account.

Yes! Opt-in Rewards is available for:

Supported Asset (OIR)

Ticker

Bitcoin

BTC

Cardano

ADA

Cosmos

ATOM

Ethereum

ETH

Injective

INJ

Kusama

KSM

Polkadot

DOT

Polygon

POL

Solana

SOL

Tezos

XTZ

The Graph

GRT

TRON

TRX

In the case of unsupported assets, Opt-in Rewards will no longer be available to assets previously supported. However, we will continuously explore adding new assets for our German clients.

For a step-by-step guide check out this article: How to use Opt-in Rewards

For a complete list of the terms, conditions and details of the Opt-in Rewards program, please see our Terms of Service.

Opt-in Rewards rewards are generally paid out once a week.

The asset rewarded is based on the asset. For example, your rewards for BTC will be in BTC. Rewards will only be added if the reward is greater than the smallest decimal precision.

There may be variance in payout timing due to platform upgrades.

Asset

Flexible Opt-in Rewards APR

Bonded Opt-in Rewards APR

Algorand (ALGO)

1%-4%

N/A

Cardano (ADA)


2%-5%

N/A

Cosmos (ATOM)

6%-10%

14-18%

Ethereum (ETH)*

N/A


3%-6%

Injective (INJ)

3%-6%

4%-11%

Kusama (KSM)

8%-12%

13%-21%

Polkadot (DOT)

7%-11%

14%-20%

Polygon (POL)

1%-3%

3%-6%

Solana (SOL)

3%-5%

8%-10%

Tezos (XTZ)

7%-10%

14%-20%

The Graph (GRT)

4%-6%

8%-13%

Tron (TRX)

1%-4%

4%-6%

*Cannot use ETH restaking

There is no minimum Opt-in Rewards time needed to earn rewards.

You start earning pro-rated rewards for Opt-in Rewards as soon as it is processed by Kraken (which may be within minutes of you Opting-in your funds). Any rewards earned will be credited to your Opt-in Rewards balance on the following payout day.

There are currently no transaction fees for allocation or deallocation to/from the program.

Kraken takes a commission for the following assets: Cardano (ADA), Celestia (TIA), Cosmos (ATOM), Ethereum (ETH), Kusama (KSM), Polygon (POL), Polkadot (DOT), Solana (SOL), Tezos (XTZ), The Graph (GRT) and Tron (TRX).

The APR rates shown above are an estimate of the rewards you could earn on the assets you hold, before our commission.

For example, if you allocate 5,000 ETH, Kraken will retain a commission of 12% of the rewards earned.

Flexible strategies have a 20% commission, and bonded strategies commissions per asset are outlined in the table below:

Kraken Commission

20%

16%

12%

10%

8%

6%

Cardano (ADA)

0 - 70k

70K - 350K

350K - 2M

2M - 10M

10M - 40M

40M+

Ethereum (ETH)

0 - 500

500 - 5K

5K - 25K

25K - 75K

75K - 150K

150K+

Polkadot (DOT)

0 - 15K

15K - 75K

75K - 375K

375K - 1.6M

1.6M - 8M

8M+

Tezos (XTZ)

0 - 40K

40K - 200K

200K - 800K

800K - 3M

3M - 10M

10M+

Kraken Commission

26%

22%

16%

14%

12%

10%

Cosmos (ATOM)

0 - 8k

8K - 40K

40K - 200K

200K - 800K

800K - 2M

2M+

Kusama (KSM)

0 - 3K

3K - 15K

15K - 75K

75K - 300K

300K - 750K

750K+

Polygon (MATIC)

0 - 90K

90K - 450K

450K - 2.25M

2.25M - 9M

9M - 22.5M

22.5M+

Solana (SOL)

0 - 4K

4K - 20K

20K - 100K

100K - 400K

400K - 1M

1M+

The Graph (GRT)

0 - 175K

175K - 875K

875K - 4.375M

4.375M - 17.5M

17.5M - 43.75M

43.75M+

Tron (TRX)

0 - 200K

200K - 1M

1M - 4M

4M - 20M

20M - 100M

100M+

Rewards below five decimal places will only display on exported ledger history, since the Kraken website truncates to five decimal places.

While your assets are held in our Opt-in Rewards program, they are not available for trading and cannot be withdrawn to an external (non-Kraken) account or wallet. You will be able to instantly remove assets at any time, but Kraken reserves up to seven days to process requests. Opt-in Rewards can also impact your equity for margin trading, because some of these assets are collateral currencies and while opted in, will be removed from your trading and equity balances. Your equity balances affect your free margin and margin level for margin trading. 

Opt-in Rewards is available with the Kraken Pro app.

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