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Kraken Adds JTO, GRASS, and WLFI to Margin Trading Options

(46 days ago) · 1 source · Summarized by CryptoBipto

Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has announced the addition of three new assets for margin trading: JTO, GRASS, and WLFI. These tokens are now available as new trading pairs on the platform's margin trading service.

WHY IT MATTERS

When a crypto exchange like Kraken adds new tokens to its margin trading service, it means traders on that platform can now borrow money to make bigger bets on those tokens. Think of margin trading like buying a house with a mortgage — you put down a fraction of the total cost and borrow the rest. If the value goes up, your gains are amplified, but if it goes down, your losses are amplified too, and you could lose more than you put in. For beginners, it is important to understand that margin trading is a high-risk activity and that an exchange listing a token for margin trading is simply a business decision, not a signal about the token's quality.

Kraken, one of the larger cryptocurrency exchanges, has expanded its margin trading offerings to include three additional tokens. JTO is the governance token of the Jito protocol, which operates on the Solana blockchain.

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  • blog.kraken.com

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