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Kraken Adds 3 DeFi Tokens – COMP, KAVA, KNC

Riding the surge of interest in yield farming, cryptocurrency exchange Kraken is listing three tokens from the world of decentralized finance.

Updated May 9, 2023, 3:09 a.m. Published Jul 14, 2020, 4:12 p.m.
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Riding the surge of interest in yield farming, cryptocurrency exchange Kraken is listing three tokens from the world of decentralized finance (DeFi).

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  • , and Kyber Network (KNC) will be listed by Kraken starting July 15, the company announced Tuesday in a blog post.
  • COMP is the governance token that kicked off DeFi's recent boom. Following its June 15 debut, the token was promptly added by Coinbase and others.
  • Kava is a DeFi platform backed by Binance, Huobi and OKEx.
  • Kyber Network is a decentralized exchange (DEX) whose KNC token became the runaway hit of early 2020. The firm recently announced the creation of a new type of yield farming, in which it would share trading fees with KNC token holders.
  • In addition to the three DeFi tokens, Kraken announced it will also list , a token that powers a blockchain-based data storage network.

Read more: Kyber Network Is Bringing Yield Farming to DEXland

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