Kraken has launched Payward Services, a new B2B infrastructure platform designed to give financial firms a single integration point for stablecoin payments, tokenised asset markets, staking, lending and digital-asset trading.
The platform is said to draw on 15 years of operating experience at Kraken and marks the company’s formal entry into the enterprise-grade crypto-infrastructure market.
Payward Services aims to address surging demand for real-time, always-on financial products as global markets shift toward instant settlement, borderless value transfer and tokenised instruments.
Kraken noted that many firms currently rely on fragmented multi-vendor systems that increase complexity by duplicating controls, dispersing liquidity and trapping capital across disconnected providers.
The new platform instead brings custody, liquidity, compliance, risk management, funding rails and settlement into a unified system designed to support everything from stablecoin payment flows to futures, perpetuals and prediction markets.
Kraken explained that a wide range of companies already rely on elements of its infrastructure, and Payward Services packages these capabilities into modular, scalable components.
Through a single integration, partners can access real-time stablecoin settlement, tokenised markets, staking programmes and global fiat and crypto on- and off-ramps.
The company said the operational benefits include faster funding cycles, fewer reconciliation points, automated risk controls and improved capital efficiency as assets move more fluidly between trading, custody and payments functions.
