Episode 11: Staking Mondays with Brian Hoffman of Kraken

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At Staking Rewards, we are helping investors to navigate the landscape of yield-generating digital assets and finding the best opportunities to earn interest on your crypto.

We are extremely excited to welcome today’s guest - Brian Hoffman, Platform Lead at Kraken.

As one of the largest and oldest Bitcoin exchanges in the world, Kraken is consistently named one of the best places to buy and sell crypto online, thanks to their excellent service, low fees, versatile funding options and rigorous security standards -- but this is only part of the story. They’ve been on the forefront of the blockchain revolution since 2011.

Brain Hoffman is the Product Manager for Crypto Funding at Kraken. He is responsible for coordinating the listing of new crypto assets on Kraken as well as liaising with relevant teams to plan and develop new products for the exchange platform, including most recently Parachain Auctions. He has seven years’ worth of experience building software for peer-to-peer bitcoin trading and previously provided cybersecurity consultancy services for the U.S. Department of Defense, classified government agencies, as well as Fortune 500 companies, including Neiman Marcus, FedEx, and Boeing and Hilton Hotels. He holds an MBA from Carey Business School at John Hopkins as well as a computer science degree from James Madison.