Kraken has scheduled maintenance for its Spot Exchange website and API on Thursday, October 29, 2026, starting at 08:01 UTC. The exchange estimates about 15 minutes of downtime, followed by a staged return to normal market operation.
The maintenance is scheduled to begin at 08:01 UTC on October 29, 2026, and is expected to take about 15 minutes.
Kraken says it will upgrade systems supporting the Spot Exchange website and API. The duration is an estimate, and the precise service-restoration time may shift slightly.
If you use the API for automated trading, check the schedule against your system’s time zone and review Kraken’s status page as the maintenance window approaches.
The Kraken Spot Exchange website and API will be unavailable, and Kraken advises users not to place or cancel orders during the window.
Kraken warns that the Spot Exchange website and API will be unavailable during the work. Deposits and withdrawals initiated during the maintenance may be delayed. The notice says sign-in and other non-trading features will remain operational.
If a strategy or third-party integration submits orders through the API, consider reviewing its schedule and handling for temporary unavailability in advance. This is a practical precaution, not a separate instruction from Kraken.
After maintenance, Kraken plans to move markets through cancel-only mode, then post-only mode, before restoring full functionality.
The return to trading will be staged: markets will first enter cancel-only mode, then post-only mode, and finally return to full functionality. The end of the estimated maintenance window therefore may not mean that every order type is immediately available.
Check Kraken’s live status and the current market mode before resuming automated trading or submitting API orders.
It is scheduled for Thursday, October 29, 2026, at 08:01 UTC. Kraken estimates about 15 minutes, but the actual restoration time may vary slightly.
Kraken advises against placing or canceling orders during the maintenance because the Spot Exchange website and API will be unavailable.
Yes. Kraken says deposits and withdrawals initiated during the maintenance window may be delayed.
Check Kraken's status updates. After maintenance, markets are expected to pass through cancel-only and post-only modes before returning to full functionality.
Kraken Prime maintenance is scheduled for October 29, 2026, from 23:00 to 23:10 UTC. During that window, the Kraken Prime web interface and REST, WebSocket, and FIX APIs may be temporarily unavailable.
The maintenance window is scheduled for October 29, 2026, from 23:00 to 23:10 UTC.
Kraken describes the work as a routine platform upgrade. The announcement was posted on October 27, 2026. At the time of publication, the scheduled window is still in the future.
The listed window is ten minutes long. It is the announced schedule, not a guarantee that access will be restored at precisely 23:10 UTC.
Kraken says the Kraken Prime web interface and REST, WebSocket, and FIX APIs may be temporarily unavailable.
If an integration relies on one of these interfaces, account for the possibility of temporary loss of access during the announced window. The notice does not say that the maintenance affects the regular Kraken Exchange, deposits, withdrawals, or other Kraken products.
Review processes that depend on Kraken Prime and monitor Kraken's official status updates.
These are precautions for planning integrations, not a claim that an outage is guaranteed or that products not listed by Kraken will be affected.
Kraken lists October 29, 2026, from 23:00 to 23:10 UTC.
Kraken lists the REST, WebSocket, and FIX APIs, along with the Kraken Prime web interface.
That is not confirmed. Kraken says the services may be temporarily unavailable but does not specify whether any disruption would be continuous or how long it might last.