Kraken Futures Historical Market Data — Every Tick, €1 a Day
Every message of the Kraken Futures market-data feed — tick-by-tick trades, Level-2 order-book updates at full depth and quotes, not candles — for 292 instruments (perpetual swaps and futures), captured co-located with nanosecond timestamps and normalized into one schema, with 1-minute OHLCV derived from it. Any instrument-day is €1 — buy as a guest, download instantly.
Every Kraken Futures message type, one schema
Every Kraken Futures print — price, size, side and exchange timestamp — at full resolution, not sampled.
Every Level-2 snapshot and update at the venue's full book depth, plus top-of-book where the venue publishes it — nanosecond venue and receive timestamps, so Kraken Futures liquidity and slippage replay exactly.
Open/high/low/close, volume and VWAP per minute — ready for backtests and Kraken Futures signal research.
Bid-ask spreads in bps and ticks, normalized into one schema across every venue for apples-to-apples Kraken Futures comparison.
How to download Kraken Futures historical data
- Open the Data Shop — it lands on the most-recorded Kraken Futures instrument; every other instrument on this page links straight to its own day calendar.
- Pick a UTC day in the calendar. Each day is one file with every trade, order-book update and quote the venue published — the shop shows the day's candle and file size before you buy.
- Try a free sample day first — one complete day, same schema, no sign-up.
- Check out as a guest — pay by card, no account, no sales call — and the file downloads immediately at €1 per instrument-day. Buying many days? Select them across the calendar or use the scanner bulk-add.
- Need CSV or Parquet instead of the native tick file? Append
?format=to any download — see the formats overview. Coding agents can do all of this through the MCP server.
Most-recorded Kraken Futures instruments
Ranked by archive size. Open any instrument for live analytics, or download its full history.
| Instrument | Type | Coverage | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PF_XBTUSD | Perpetuals | December 2023 – September 2026 | 1.26 TB | Download |
| PF_ETHUSD | Perpetuals | December 2023 – September 2026 | 651 GB | Download |
| PF_SOLUSD | Perpetuals | December 2023 – September 2026 | 520 GB | Download |
| PF_XRPUSD | Perpetuals | December 2023 – September 2026 | 475 GB | Download |
| PF_DOGEUSD | Perpetuals | December 2023 – September 2026 | 378 GB | Download |
| PF_PEPEUSD | Perpetuals | December 2023 – September 2026 | 276 GB | Download |
| PI_XBTUSD | Perpetuals | December 2023 – September 2026 | 266 GB | Download |
| PF_ADAUSD | Perpetuals | December 2023 – September 2026 | 221 GB | Download |
| PF_SUIUSD | Perpetuals | December 2023 – September 2026 | 201 GB | Download |
| PF_ZECUSD | Perpetuals | December 2023 – September 2026 | 177 GB | Download |
| PF_WIFUSD | Perpetuals | January 2024 – September 2026 | 153 GB | Download |
| PI_ETHUSD | Perpetuals | December 2023 – September 2026 | 148 GB | Download |
Market structure & coverage
Kraken Futures historical data spans December 2023 – September 2026 — over 3 years across perpetual swaps and futures. The archive holds 292 instruments over 270 base assets, for 214 TB of recorded market data.
Kraken Futures trading activity — turnover, trades and trend
What our tick archive recorded on Kraken Futures: whole-venue USD turnover and trade counts per window, the month-by-month development and the split by instrument class.
Over the 30 days to 2026-09-18, our tick capture recorded 24,730,046 trades and $32.4B of USD turnover on Kraken Futures across 295 active instruments — an average of $1.1B per day, +93.4 % versus the 30 days before.
Whole-venue totals from every trade print in our own co-located tick capture (365 recorded days in the last 365, window ending 2026-09-18) — not venue-reported volume. Averages are over recorded days only.
| Month | Turnover (USD) | Trades | Avg / day | Days | vs previous month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 (month to date) | $17.1B | 13.9M | $950.0M | 18 | — |
| Aug 2026 | $25.5B | 19.0M | $823.4M | 31 | +38.7 % |
| Jul 2026 | $18.4B | 15.1M | $593.7M | 31 | −19.2 % |
| Jun 2026 | $22.8B | 21.0M | $758.8M | 30 | +49.0 % |
| May 2026 | $15.3B | 13.4M | $492.8M | 31 | −9.0 % |
| Apr 2026 | $16.8B | 14.3M | $559.4M | 30 | −16.7 % |
| Mar 2026 | $20.1B | 20.0M | $649.6M | 31 | −5.1 % |
| Feb 2026 | $21.2B | 25.3M | $758.0M | 28 | +14.0 % |
| Jan 2026 | $18.6B | 21.1M | $600.6M | 31 | −19.6 % |
| Dec 2025 | $23.2B | 19.9M | $747.0M | 31 | −8.5 % |
| Nov 2025 | $25.3B | 27.6M | $844.0M | 30 | −27.2 % |
| Oct 2025 | $34.8B | 26.6M | $1.1B | 31 | — |
Kraken Futures — USD turnover and trade counts summed per calendar month (UTC) from our tick archive. Days = UTC days with recorded activity; a partial month shows no month-over-month change.
| Instrument class | Turnover · 30d (USD) | Share | Trades · 30d |
|---|---|---|---|
| Perpetual swaps | $32.3B | 99.8 % | 24.7M |
| Dated futures | $67.0M | 0.2 % | 37.9K |
Kraken Futures — share of USD turnover by instrument class over the 30 days to 2026-09-18, from our tick archive.
Kraken Futures — USD turnover per day, last 30 days
Summed over every recorded instrument of the venue, from the trade prints in our tick archive.
| UTC day | Turnover (USD) | Trades | vs previous day |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-18 | $1.7B | 1.1M | +107.6 % |
| 2026-09-17 | $830.4M | 756.3K | -15.8 % |
| 2026-09-16 | $986.2M | 870.0K | -14.8 % |
| 2026-09-15 | $1.2B | 934.5K | +8.9 % |
| 2026-09-14 | $1.1B | 829.0K | +130.5 % |
| 2026-09-13 | $461.4M | 502.7K | +19.3 % |
| 2026-09-12 | $386.9M | 411.7K | -69.6 % |
| 2026-09-11 | $1.3B | 985.9K | +45.4 % |
| 2026-09-10 | $875.9M | 757.9K | -13.4 % |
| 2026-09-09 | $1.0B | 835.2K | +7.8 % |
| 2026-09-08 | $938.2M | 805.9K | +35.8 % |
| 2026-09-07 | $691.1M | 762.3K | -0.2 % |
| 2026-09-06 | $692.2M | 741.3K | +39.4 % |
| 2026-09-05 | $496.4M | 541.2K | -56.5 % |
| 2026-09-04 | $1.1B | 755.0K | -17.9 % |
| 2026-09-03 | $1.4B | 849.2K | +54.6 % |
| 2026-09-02 | $898.5M | 682.1K | -17.1 % |
| 2026-09-01 | $1.1B | 708.5K | +15.6 % |
| 2026-08-31 | $937.1M | 662.0K | +18.3 % |
| 2026-08-30 | $792.2M | 595.9K | +98.3 % |
| 2026-08-29 | $399.4M | 377.7K | -63.1 % |
| 2026-08-28 | $1.1B | 851.2K | +6.2 % |
| 2026-08-27 | $1.0B | 784.1K | +23.6 % |
| 2026-08-26 | $825.1M | 680.0K | -37.1 % |
| 2026-08-25 | $1.3B | 969.7K | -8.8 % |
| 2026-08-24 | $1.4B | 1.0M | +12.3 % |
| 2026-08-23 | $1.3B | 860.6K | -7.5 % |
| 2026-08-22 | $1.4B | 1.3M | -54.3 % |
| 2026-08-21 | $3.0B | 1.6M | +72.2 % |
| 2026-08-20 | $1.8B | 1.1M | — |
USD turnover and trade counts summed over every recorded Kraken Futures instrument per UTC day, from the trade prints in our tick archive — the same series as the live analytics chart on the exchanges overview.
Why buy Kraken Futures data here
Four things every page on this site is built on — and the reason the numbers above exist at all.
We record everything
The complete public feed of each venue as it was published: every Level-2 snapshot and update at the venue's full book depth, every trade with its aggressor side, every quote, funding, mark-price and liquidation event — for every instrument the venue lists, every UTC day since we added the venue. Nothing sampled, no top-N cut, no on-demand capture.
Institutional grade
Captured co-located at the venue with the exchange timestamp and our receive timestamp in integer nanoseconds, an event-id chain that makes any gap visible, and one normalized schema across 35+ venues — the same capture our own high-frequency trading engine and enterprise feeds run on.
€1 per instrument-day
Any instrument-day is €1, series-day bundles start at €1 — no subscription, no minimum order, no tiers to unlock. Credit packs lower the effective price and never expire, and every venue has free full-day samples to test against first.
Self-service for everyone
Pick the days in the Data Shop, pay by card as a guest and download immediately — no sales call, no enterprise contract, no KYC. Coding agents buy the same files through the MCP server, and the free Agent Skill teaches them the format.
Kraken Futures historical data — FAQ
What Kraken Futures historical market data can I download?
Tick-by-tick trades, Level-2 order-book depth, 1-minute OHLCV/VWAP and bid-ask spreads for 292 Kraken Futures instruments across perpetual swaps and futures. Each file is one instrument for one UTC day.
How far back does Kraken Futures data go?
Kraken Futures coverage runs December 2023 – September 2026. Availability varies per instrument — check the per-instrument calendar on the analyze page.
Do you provide Kraken Futures order-book and L2 depth data?
Yes — every file carries the full Level-2 book as the venue published it: one snapshot, then every incremental update at the venue's full depth, plus top-of-book where Kraken Futures publishes a separate stream, alongside the raw trade stream — one schema across all venues.
Do you record every Kraken Futures instrument, or only the top pairs?
Every instrument Kraken Futures lists, every message it publishes, every UTC day since we added the venue — 292 instruments so far. No top-N cut, no sampling, no capture on demand; the archive is the complete feed, recorded co-located with nanosecond timestamps.
What format are the Kraken Futures data files in?
One zstd-compressed text file per instrument per UTC day, in the schema documented in the market-data specification. Grab free samples on the downloads page.
Can I download Kraken Futures data as CSV or Parquet?
Yes — every free sample and every purchased tick day also exports as gzipped CSV or Parquet at no extra cost: trades and liquidations (derivatives, 2026 onward) in both formats, plus top-of-book (BBO) quotes as CSV. Timestamps are integer microseconds UTC and the columns load straight into pandas, polars or DuckDB — see the formats overview.
How much does Kraken Futures historical data cost?
€1 per Kraken Futures instrument-day — no subscription, no minimum order, no account needed: buy as a guest, download instantly, or use credit packs that never expire. Free full-day samples first on the downloads page; details on pricing.
How much volume does Kraken Futures trade per day?
Over the 30 days to 2026-09-18 our tick capture recorded $32.4B of USD turnover on Kraken Futures, about $1.1B per UTC day across 295 active instruments. That is +93.4 % versus the 30 days before. Over the last 365 days (365 recorded days) the archive holds $268.6B of Kraken Futures turnover. The figures are summed from every trade print in the archive, not from venue-reported volume.
How many trades per day happen on Kraken Futures?
24,730,046 trades in the 30 days to 2026-09-18 — about 824.3K per UTC day, with an average trade size of $1,309. Every one of these prints is in the Kraken Futures instrument-day files, with nanosecond exchange timestamps and the order-book state around it.
What was the busiest Kraken Futures trading day in the archive?
2025-10-10, with $3.0B of USD turnover over 1,782,911 trades (365-day window ending 2026-09-18). The busiest full month was Oct 2025 at $34.8B. Any of these days can be downloaded per instrument from the shop.