Connect Kraken
Kraken, in the same book as everything else
A read-only key, and your Kraken history joins the ledger: fills, fees and transfers, priced when they happened.
Read only, and refused if the key can trade or withdraw. Kraken is the interesting case, and it is below.
The Kraken card on the Connections screen and its drawer: what Orla reads, what it never does, and the read-only key it asks for. Nothing is saved until Kraken has answered what the key may do, and a key with more than read rights is refused.
What lands in the book
The movements, not just the total
A balance answers what you have. A history answers what you owe in January.
- Spot fills arrive as two legs, what left and what arrived, with the price recorded at the moment it happened.
- Fees arrive as their own line, in the currency Kraken charged them in.
- Deposits and withdrawals arrive as transfers and are matched against your own wallets.
- The first sync reaches back to 1 January of the previous calendar year, then keeps up hourly.
The key you give us
Kraken will not say what a key can do, so we ask in a way that costs nothing
Kraken publishes no permissions, and not knowing is not a reason to accept.
Both probes are built so the worst case is nothing happening, rather than trusting the checkbox you ticked on their site.
The part that gets tax wrong
Moving your own coins is not a sale
Most tools book it as one anyway, and the bill is real.
- A withdrawal to your own wallet is matched to the arrival on the other side by transaction hash.
- Matched, the two legs become one internal move and no gain is calculated.
- Unmatched, it is left out of the disposals rather than counted as a sale.
Questions
The questions people ask before they connect it
Can Orla trade or withdraw on my Kraken account?
No, and Kraken is the interesting case: it publishes no endpoint that reports the rights on a key. So we ask the venue itself with two requests that cannot execute, an order in Kraken's validate mode for a volume of zero and a withdrawal enquiry naming an address that cannot exist on your account. If Kraken refuses on permission the key is read only; if it complains about the request instead, the permission had already been let through and the key is rejected. Anything else, including a timeout, is refused.
Does it import my history or just the balance?
Both, and the history is the point. Fills, deposits and withdrawals become transactions in the ledger, so the capital gains engine can work a cost basis out by lot. The first sync reaches back to 1 January of the previous calendar year, which covers the current tax year and the one before it as well.
Will moving coins to my own wallet look like a sale?
No. The withdrawal is matched to the arrival on the other side, by transaction hash where the venue gives one and by coin, amount and date where it does not, and the pair becomes one internal move. An unmatched withdrawal is left out of disposals rather than counted as a sale of any kind.
Other exchanges
Connect Kraken, and see the year add up
Exchanges connect on every plan, the free one included. A plan counts the rows synced in a month, not the connections.
- Binance →
- Spot fills as two legs, fees on their own line, transfers joined to the wallet.
- Bybit →
- The same rows, with the key's permissions read before it is saved.
- OKX →
- Key, secret and passphrase, with the permission list read before any is saved.
- Coinbase →
- Fills, fees and transfers as transactions, rather than a balance that answers nothing when January comes.
- Hyperliquid →
- No key at all: equity, deposits and daily results from a public address.
See it on your own books
Thirty minutes: we connect an account, drop a real bill in, and close a month together.