Kraken replaces 176 trading pairs: deadline November 6

If you have a limit order sitting on a smaller altcoin at Kraken, review it before Friday, November 6. At 3 p.m. German time the exchange switches 176 trading pairs into what it calls cancel-only mode. From that moment Kraken accepts no new orders on those pairs, and anything still open in the book is deleted over the following days. Balances are not affected, so your coins stay in the account. The only thing lost is the order itself: the price at which you wanted to buy or sell.

The good news first, because it applies to most readers: not a single one of the major euro pairs is on the list. Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Solana, Cardano and Dogecoin keep their euro order books unchanged. The ones affected are smaller assets, and there are a great many of them. If you trade only the heavyweights, the rest of this article is background. If instead you trade second-tier assets in euros or use exotic quote currencies, you have a concrete task before Friday.

176 native trading pairs give way to synthetic pairs

Kraken announced the change on October 27 in its status area and published the full list in its help centre. The substance of the move is technical and sounds more harmless than it is for order books: the exchange is replacing 176 native trading pairs with synthetic ones. The assets themselves all remain tradable on Kraken. What changes is only the way the pair comes about.