Patrick Sutton

Simply put, nobody is building and shipping faster than @krakenfx & @inkonchain right now. If you want to be part of a community that isn't just keeping pace, but setting the pace, you know where to find us.

AI will shape the next generation of financial & economic infrastructure. The stronger the policy foundation, the stronger America’s ability to lead in the next era of technology & financial infrastructure. Kraken & @Payward support @WhiteHouse’s work to advance a clearer national framework. Read more: blog.kraken.com/policy/payward…

AI is moving beyond the application layer. It is becoming a foundational infrastructure layer, alongside compute, networking, and financial rails. Once a technology reaches that layer, the stakes change. The @WhiteHouse is right to frame AI policy at the national level, because infrastructure questions cannot be solved through fragmented approaches. It no longer just affects products. It begins to shape the architecture of markets, capital formation, and national competitiveness. That is why the policy debate around AI needs to be framed correctly. The issue is not whether AI will matter. That is already settled. The real question is whether the infrastructure beneath it is built inside a coherent U.S. framework, or fragmented across jurisdictions in ways that slow deployment, increase time to market, and push capital formation elsewhere. That is the core issue @WhiteHouse is beginning to address with a national framework. At small scale, fragmentation can look manageable. At national scale, it becomes a chokehold on system performance. It introduces coordination overhead across model deployment, data governance, and capital allocation. It acts as a tax on iteration speed, a compounding variable in the economic and geopolitical advantages the U.S. can seize now. That is why clarity matters. Not as a talking point. As a structural input. A clear national framework reduces unnecessary overhead. It creates a single operating surface for builders. It allows tighter coordination between research, productization, and distribution. It gives companies more certainty around where to invest, how to scale, and what can be built in the United States with conviction rather than hesitation. This is how countries retain talent. This is how they concentrate capital. This is how they build enduring platforms instead of importing them later. But this is where the conversation is still incomplete. AI does not just reshape software. It reshapes how economic activity is executed. Agents were not built to press buttons. They were built to interact with APIs, coordinate across systems, and execute tasks programmatically. As agents become the primary interface to the digital world, they will need native ways to transact, hold value, and settle outcomes. That is where crypto becomes inseparable from AI. Wallets become the identity layer for agents. Smart contracts become the execution layer. Blockchains become the settlement layer. You cannot have autonomous agents operating at scale without programmable, global, permissionless financial infrastructure. Traditional systems were designed for humans. Agents require systems designed for software. This is why AI and crypto converge at scale. One produces intelligence. The other provides coordination, ownership, and settlement. Together, they form the foundation of autonomous economic systems. A national AI framework that does not account for this convergence risks solving only half the problem. Because the next generation of infrastructure is not just intelligent. It is autonomous, transactive, and global by default. Countries that recognize this early will not just lead in AI. They will define the financial architecture that AI runs on. Countries that do not will build models on top of systems they do not control. blog.kraken.com/policy/payward…

Back to the basics... For years, Bitcoin has been one of the biggest beneficiaries when the global money printers flow. After all, Bitcoin’s deterministic supply is neither subjective nor loose nor squishy. That relationship has evolved, but history suggests these gaps do not stay open forever. Some cool research from Payward Company @CFBenchmarks dives into these fundamental dynamics. x.com/CFBenchmarks/s…

The house is full. The Hackathon is coming. $75k prize pool 60 builders together 3 project tracks 2 weeks to go 1 goal: build apps that will power a better financial system, with xStocks.

@inkonchain Marked safe from buying land in the metaverse

Grateful Ink chain launched after the metaverse era.

Reminder: Kraken is performing a system upgrade today at 08:00 UTC. The Kraken Spot Exchange Website and API will be unavailable for approximately 15 minutes. More details and real-time updates at status.kraken.com.

DeFi Earn Hits $125M Milestone $125M into DeFi Earn and the pace is only picking up. We launched DeFI Earn with a simple thesis: make DeFi yield accessible to every @KrakenFX customer. The numbers tell us we're on to something, and we're just getting started. x.com/veda_labs/stat…

Crypto is maturing in the right places.

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Equities shouldn’t feel different from crypto. @marklg at #MergeSãoPaulo 🇧🇷 on how tokenized equities unlock access to U.S. capital markets globally. x.com/xStocksFi/stat…

I will say it again, 10 years ago we hadn’t proper DEXs for swapping and now we can trade tokenised US equities. Even get rewarded by just holding them. xTechnology

@coopernicus01 I’m starting to think you’re faking it that you have a new gig

strong start at work btw: messed up directions on entering my name and now my email is coop.cooper@companyname.

@grok @Collingbourne @krakenfx Good grok

@Collingbourne @krakenfx Vastly more convenient. Traditional banks: 3-5 business days, weekdays 9-5 only. Kraken instant USD withdrawals (via RTP): seconds to minutes, 24/7/365 including holidays. Your money moves when you say, not when the bank allows. Total game changer.

Waiting 3-5 business days for your own money is a 1970s problem. 365 days a year. Friday night. Sunday morning. December 25. Your money moves when you tell it to. Instant USD withdrawals are now live on Kraken for US clients. 🦅 See for yourself ⤵️ app.kraken.com/IKVW/balance

Kraken DeFi Earn has surpassed over $125M in deposits. Here's what the data is telling us: 📈 $125M in TVL (up 3364% since launch) 👥 30,000+ users and growing 🏆 4.6% APY while best trad savings earn 3.2 - 4% 🚫 ZERO marketing incentives @krakenfx is offering a best-in-class savings product built on @veda_labs vault rails. No caps, no minimum deposit requirements or strings attached.

@leodotfi @xStocksFi @marklg

@xStocksFi @_PatrickSutton @marklg Wow I wonder who took this incredible picture

“Same access. Just as much choice. Tokenized equities, just like crypto.” — @marklg live at #MergeSãoPaulo 🇧🇷

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100 xStocks are now live via @krakenfx. The tokenized equity ecosystem continues to expand across crypto infrastructure, AI compute, and frontier tech.