Kraken Launches Ramp API For Integrated Crypto Access
Kraken is making a play to become the behind-the-scenes infrastructure for anyone building crypto features into their apps. The company has launched Kraken Ramp, an API designed to let platforms embed crypto buy and sell flows directly into their products without sending users elsewhere.
The idea is to offer a single, developer-friendly API that unifies fiat-to-crypto and crypto-to-crypto transactions. Kraken says Ramp is built on the same infrastructure that underpins its exchange, with licensed rails, strong security controls and fraud-prevention systems baked in. The service supports more than four hundred assets across over one hundred blockchains, all accessible through a unified API and SDK.
Payment flexibility is a core part of the pitch. Ramp integrates more than twenty-four payment methods, including cards, ACH, PIX, SEPA, Apple Pay and Google Pay. It also plugs into Kraken’s liquidity pools, which the company claims provide tight spreads and reliable execution.
Kraken is positioning Ramp as a tool for fintechs, banks, wallets, protocols, exchanges, marketplaces, GameFi developers and wider Web3 projects. The appeal is straightforward. Kraken handles compliance, licensing, fraud controls and payment operations, allowing partners to focus on product design and user growth. The company calls it a way to build on a brand trusted by institutions and long-time market participants.
Ramp fits into Kraken’s broader strategy to create what it calls frictionless, global access points for crypto. The company says developers can integrate the API immediately to enable on-and-off off-ramps between fiat and digital assets for users around the world.
The usual warnings apply. The company notes that crypto markets are volatile, regulatory protections vary widely, and tax obligations may arise. The service is pitched as infrastructure, not investment advice, and Kraken stresses that it will not take steps to raise the value of any asset a user buys.
