Top gainers and losers on Kraken

Kraken’s ticker gives each pair’s last price and the opening price of the current UTC day. It does not give the price 24 hours ago. Rather than present a figure the source does not provide, this page reports the change Kraken does provide: from 00:00 UTC to the moment of collection.

That makes the time of day matter. Shortly after midnight UTC the changes are small, because little time has passed. Late in the UTC day the figures approach a full day’s move. For a window that always spans 24 hours, use the top crypto gainers table, check declines on the top crypto losers, or browse the crypto heatmap.

The spread is the distance between the highest price a buyer is offering and the lowest price a seller is asking, as a percentage of the midpoint. Buying at the ask and selling at once at the bid loses exactly that percentage, before fees.

On the most traded pairs the spread is a few thousandths of a percent. On small pairs it can reach whole percentage points. A pair showing a 9% gain with a 3% spread has a far smaller realisable move than the headline suggests.

Kraken lists some assets that Coinbase Exchange does not, so a few names appear only here. Volume on this page is Kraken’s 24-hour amount multiplied by its 24-hour volume-weighted average price. Kraken symbols XBT and XDG are shown as BTC and DOGE.