Kraken Expanded Maker Protection to More Contracts
The cryptocurrency exchange applied new trading safeguards to 61 additional perpetual contracts.
Updated on Oct. 11, 2026 in Economic Indicators
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Kraken has expanded its Maker Protection system to 61 additional perpetual futures contracts. This security feature enforces a temporary hold on orders to give traders with resting positions more time to react to market movements.
Why it matters
The system aims to improve market fairness by preventing rapid-fire order execution that could disadvantage traders with existing limit orders. By expanding this protection, the exchange is standardizing its trading environment across a broader range of derivatives.
The Maker Protection rule applies a 20-millisecond hold to selected futures markets to manage order timing. While 61 perpetual contracts were added to the system, the platform's ten most liquid linear perpetual markets remain excluded.
The players
Kraken
Kraken is a global cryptocurrency exchange that facilitates spot and futures trading for various digital assets.
The details
Under this rule, a cancellation request made during the hold window automatically converts a held limit placement into an immediate-or-cancel order. Consequently, the order may still execute at the original release time even if the system reports a successful cancellation response.
Timeline
October 8, 2026: Kraken expanded the Maker Protection system to additional contracts.
Macro View
This expansion follows the broader industry trend of implementing artificial latency windows to protect market participants from predatory high-frequency trading strategies. Such measures mirror the evolution of pre-trade risk management protocols now common across traditional and digital asset exchanges.
Traders utilizing these specific futures markets must account for the 20-millisecond delay when planning automated strategies. Users should note that spot trading is entirely unaffected by these changes to the derivatives order matching process.
The takeaway
Traders should review their algorithmic execution logic to ensure compatibility with the new hold windows on perpetual contracts. Understanding how the system treats cancellation requests during these micro-windows is essential to avoiding unintended order executions.
Further reading
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Source note: This article includes information reported by CryptoSlate.
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