Overview of Bonded Earn

Bonded Earn offers rewards through our Staking and Opt-In Rewards programs with higher APR compared to Flexible Earning or Auto Earn. Bonded Earn is now available in both Kraken and Kraken Pro applications.

Bonded Staking: There are no bonding periods for any Bonded Staking assets

Bonded Opt-In Rewards: Bonding periods refer to the wait time before the deallocation completes. While your assets are allocated via Bonded Opt-in Rewards services, they are not available for trading and cannot be transferred to your external (non-Kraken) account.

Unbonding period refers to the wait time after you deallocate the assets before you can use them for other purposes. 

During the unbonding period, they are not available for trading and cannot be transferred to your external (non-Kraken) account.

Unbonding periods are determined by the underlying protocol and apply even if the asset does not have a bonding period.

Bonded Staking

Bonded Earn offers onchain bonded terms when staking certain assets, such as DOT and ATOM. Staking rewards will typically be paid out to your staking balance each weekly payout interval. If you choose Bonded Staking, your assets will be subject to a wait time after you unstake them before you can use them for other purposes. The wait time (known as the unbonding period) varies by asset.

Staking also impacts your equity for margin trading (where available). Staking in bonded products will remove the staked amount from your trading and equity balances. Your equity balances affect your free margin and margin level for margin trading.

Refer to Overview of Staking on Kraken for more information about staking.

Bonded Opt-In Rewards

Opt-In Rewards gives you the option to earn non-staking rewards on eligible assets available and idle account balances you otherwise maintain in your Kraken trading account.

If you allocate your assets to a Bonded Opt-In Rewards product, your assets will be subject to a wait time after you deallocate them, before they are available for withdrawal or trading. 

For Opt-In Rewards products, rewards will continue to accrue during the unbonding period. 

Refer to Overview of Opt-In Rewards on Kraken for more information.

Note: Geographic restrictions apply for asset and program availability - see for more information.

For asset tickers, please refer to our API documentation.

Geographic restrictions apply for asset and program availability - see for more information.

To ensure Kraken remains compliant and can continue to provide an exceptional experience to European clients in the long term, Kraken will wind down fiat and stablecoin Opt-in Rewards offering in the EEA region by June 30, 2025. Clients will not be able to manually allocate new assets to the impacted Opt-in Rewards products after May 30, 2025 but will continue earning rewards for all assets allocated to these products up until June 30.

For asset tickers, please refer to our API documentation.

Staking

Refer to Overview of Staking on Kraken for detailed breakout of the Bonded Staking fees.

Opt-In Rewards

There are currently no fees for allocating assets to Opt-In Rewards products.

For additional information, please refer to our Overview of Opt-In Rewards on Kraken.