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 218 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 – present | 1.28 TB | Download |
| PF_ETHUSD | Perpetuals | December 2023 – present | 664 GB | Download |
| PF_SOLUSD | Perpetuals | December 2023 – present | 525 GB | Download |
| PF_XRPUSD | Perpetuals | December 2023 – present | 479 GB | Download |
| PF_DOGEUSD | Perpetuals | December 2023 – present | 382 GB | Download |
| PF_PEPEUSD | Perpetuals | December 2023 – present | 280 GB | Download |
| PI_XBTUSD | Perpetuals | December 2023 – present | 268 GB | Download |
| PF_ADAUSD | Perpetuals | December 2023 – present | 224 GB | Download |
| PF_SUIUSD | Perpetuals | December 2023 – present | 206 GB | Download |
| PF_ZECUSD | Perpetuals | December 2023 – present | 183 GB | Download |
| PF_WIFUSD | Perpetuals | January 2024 – present | 154 GB | Download |
| PI_ETHUSD | Perpetuals | December 2023 – present | 150 GB | Download |
Kraken Futures tick size, lot size and contract rules
The trading rules Kraken Futures publishes for its most-recorded instruments — tick size, lot size, minimum order, contract size and funding interval.
| Instrument | Tick size | Lot size | Min order · notional | Contract size | Funding | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PF_XBTUSD Perpetual · linear · stats | 1 | 0.0001 | 0.0001 · — | — | 1 h | 2022-03-22 |
| PF_ETHUSD Perpetual · linear · stats | 0.1 | 0.001 | 0.001 · — | — | 1 h | 2022-03-22 |
| PF_SOLUSD Perpetual · linear · stats | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 · — | — | 1 h | 2022-03-22 |
| PF_XRPUSD Perpetual · linear · stats | 0.0001 | 1 | 1 · — | — | 1 h | 2022-03-22 |
| PF_DOGEUSD Perpetual · linear · stats | 0.00001 | 1 | 1 · — | — | 1 h | 2022-06-20 |
| PF_PEPEUSD Perpetual · linear · stats | 0.0000000001 | 1000 | 1000 · — | — | 1 h | 2023-05-25 |
| PI_XBTUSD Perpetual · inverse · stats | 0.5 | 1 | 1 · — | 1 USD | 1 h | 2018-08-31 |
| PF_ADAUSD Perpetual · linear · stats | 0.00001 | 1 | 1 · — | — | 1 h | 2022-03-22 |
| PF_SUIUSD Perpetual · linear · stats | 0.0001 | 1 | 1 · — | — | 1 h | 2023-05-03 |
| PF_ZECUSD Perpetual · linear · stats | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 · — | — | 1 h | 2022-08-24 |
| PF_WIFUSD Perpetual · linear · stats | 0.0001 | 1 | 1 · — | — | 1 h | 2024-01-22 |
| PI_ETHUSD Perpetual · inverse · stats | 0.05 | 1 | 1 · — | 1 USD | 1 h | 2018-08-31 |
Exchange-published instrument rules as synced on 2026-10-10: tick size = smallest price step, lot size = smallest quantity step, minimums as order quantity in base units · notional in quote currency, contract size per contract, funding = settlement interval of the perpetual. Every day file carries the same fields in its first line. Venues change these rules — check the venue before trading.
Market structure & coverage
Kraken Futures tick data has been recorded since December 2023, with new days added daily — over 3 years of history across perpetual swaps and futures. The archive holds 218 instruments over 198 base assets, for 193 TB of recorded market data. Each day is one complete tick file — not a snapshot or candle feed — at €1 per instrument-day, self-service, with no subscription.
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 2026-10-08, our tick capture recorded 27,532,382 trades and $28.7B of USD turnover on Kraken Futures across 220 active instruments — an average of $956.5M per day, +0.8 % 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 2026-10-08) — not venue-reported volume. Averages are over recorded days only.
| Month | Turnover (USD) | Trades | Avg / day | Days | vs previous month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2026 (month to date) | $7.1B | 7.2M | $883.8M | 8 | — |
| Sep 2026 | $29.0B | 26.1M | $965.1M | 30 | +13.4 % |
| 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 | — |
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 | $28.7B | 99.9 % | 27.5M |
| Dated futures | $35.4M | 0.1 % | 45.0K |
Kraken Futures — share of USD turnover by instrument class over the 30 days to 2026-10-08, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-08 | $1.4B | 1.4M | +44.2 % |
| 2026-10-07 | $997.3M | 1.0M | +60.3 % |
| 2026-10-06 | $622.0M | 733.6K | -21.1 % |
| 2026-10-05 | $788.8M | 867.2K | +32.7 % |
| 2026-10-04 | $594.4M | 630.7K | +73.0 % |
| 2026-10-03 | $343.6M | 519.2K | -72.6 % |
| 2026-10-02 | $1.3B | 1.1M | +21.7 % |
| 2026-10-01 | $1.0B | 929.8K | -3.3 % |
| 2026-09-30 | $1.1B | 1.0M | +12.6 % |
| 2026-09-29 | $946.8M | 1.0M | -6.9 % |
| 2026-09-28 | $1.0B | 1.2M | +41.5 % |
| 2026-09-27 | $719.0M | 825.7K | +44.6 % |
| 2026-09-26 | $497.2M | 655.1K | -46.5 % |
| 2026-09-25 | $929.3M | 1.1M | -3.9 % |
| 2026-09-24 | $967.3M | 1.0M | -11.9 % |
| 2026-09-23 | $1.1B | 1.2M | -6.5 % |
| 2026-09-22 | $1.2B | 1.3M | -36.1 % |
| 2026-09-21 | $1.8B | 1.3M | +138.1 % |
| 2026-09-20 | $772.1M | 849.1K | -6.7 % |
| 2026-09-19 | $827.6M | 819.2K | -52.0 % |
| 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 | — |
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.
Agents: /llms.txt · MCP server /mcp · every page as markdown via Accept: text/markdown
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 218 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 – present. Each day is one complete tick file — not a snapshot or candle feed — at €1 per instrument-day, self-service, with no subscription. 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 — 218 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 2026-10-08 our tick capture recorded $28.7B of USD turnover on Kraken Futures, about $956.5M per UTC day across 220 active instruments. That is +0.8 % versus the 30 days before. Over the last 365 days (365 recorded days) the archive holds $269.6B 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?
27,532,382 trades in the 30 days to 2026-10-08 — about 917.7K per UTC day, with an average trade size of $1,042. 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 2026-10-08). The busiest full month was Sep 2026 at $29.0B. Any of these days can be downloaded per instrument from the shop.
What is the tick size of the top Kraken Futures instruments?
The smallest price step per instrument — PF_XBTUSD (perpetual): 1; PF_ETHUSD (perpetual): 0.1; PF_SOLUSD (perpetual): 0.01; PF_XRPUSD (perpetual): 0.0001; PF_DOGEUSD (perpetual): 0.00001; PF_PEPEUSD (perpetual): 0.0000000001. The smallest quantity step (lot size) — PF_XBTUSD (perpetual): 0.0001; PF_ETHUSD (perpetual): 0.001; PF_SOLUSD (perpetual): 0.01; PF_XRPUSD (perpetual): 1; PF_DOGEUSD (perpetual): 1; PF_PEPEUSD (perpetual): 1000. The instrument-specifications table on this page lists every row. Values as synced from the venues on 2026-10-10; exchanges change these rules, so check the venue before trading.
What is the minimum order size for the top Kraken Futures instruments?
Minimum order quantity and, where the venue publishes one, minimum notional — PF_XBTUSD (perpetual): 0.0001 BTC; PF_ETHUSD (perpetual): 0.001 ETH; PF_SOLUSD (perpetual): 0.01 SOL; PF_XRPUSD (perpetual): 1 XRP; PF_DOGEUSD (perpetual): 1 DOGE; PF_PEPEUSD (perpetual): 1000 PEPE. Values as synced from the venues on 2026-10-10; exchanges change these rules, so check the venue before trading.
What is the funding interval of the top Kraken Futures instruments perpetuals?
Funding settles PF_XBTUSD (perpetual): every 1 h; PF_ETHUSD (perpetual): every 1 h; PF_SOLUSD (perpetual): every 1 h; PF_XRPUSD (perpetual): every 1 h; PF_DOGEUSD (perpetual): every 1 h; PF_PEPEUSD (perpetual): every 1 h. Every funding-rate update is part of the recorded perpetual day files (message type 9), so the full funding history replays from the archive. Values as synced from the venues on 2026-10-10; exchanges change these rules, so check the venue before trading.