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Payward
Payward, Inc. is the parent company behind Kraken and a portfolio of financial products spanning trading, custody, payments, lending, onchain finance, and benchmarks. It builds open, programmable financial rails that connect crypto, tokenized assets, and traditional markets, serving customers and institutions across 190+ jurisdictions worldwide.
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Payward is a collection of companies powering the open financial system, operating across assets, geographies, and time zones. Its portfolio includes Kraken, xStocks, NinjaTrader, CF Benchmarks, and Breakout, spanning trading, custody, payments, lending, onchain finance, and financial benchmarks. The platform is built for global scale, with an interoperable infrastructure stack connecting crypto, tokenized assets, and traditional markets using shared systems and liquidity, enabling faster and more efficient product launches. Payward maintains a significant regulatory footprint of 100+ licenses and registrations spanning crypto assets, securities and derivatives, payments, money transmission, banking, and lending, along with formal governance and oversight structures to support regulated growth across jurisdictions, products, and customer types. It serves a broad range of clients including retail and institutional traders, and financial market participants globally.Grant Funding
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2026
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$200M