// Director · Asset Listings · Kraken
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I'm Peter Dimitrakos — Director of Asset Listings at Kraken. 15+ years in financial markets, now at the frontier of crypto: evaluating projects, navigating market structure, and deciding what goes live for millions of clients.
“Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age.” — A Cypherpunk's Manifesto, 1993
From traditional markets to the crypto frontier.
My path runs from traditional markets to the front line of crypto. I started in financial markets in 2009, fell down the Bitcoin rabbit hole around 2012, and from 2014–2017 founded and ran my own crypto mining pool. In 2018 I joined Kraken, one of the longest-standing crypto exchanges in the world.
I started on the institutional side as a Senior Manager in Institutional Sales & Account Management — helping build the team from the ground up and owning relationships with Kraken's largest and most demanding clients as the business scaled. In 2024 I moved into Asset Listings, where I'm now Director — judging token projects on their fundamentals, legals and market structure, and deciding what goes live for a global client base.
I'm hands-on with the technical side, too — a power user who runs his own setups and likes to take new tools apart to see what makes them tick. It's curiosity more than profession, but it's also an edge: staying close to the tech sharpens how I read the whole industry — separating signal from noise, and sensing where it's all headed.
The path so far.
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2024 — PRESENT
Director, Asset Listings / Kraken
Leading Kraken's asset-listings function. I own the end-to-end review of digital-asset projects — fundamentals, legal and regulatory risk, tokenomics and market structure — and decide what gets listed for a global client base.
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2018 — 2024
Senior Manager, Institutional Sales & Account Management / Kraken
Helped build the institutional team from the ground up — owning relationships with Kraken's largest and most sophisticated clients and growing the institutional book as the exchange scaled worldwide.
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2014 — 2017
Mining Pool / Founder & Operator
Founded and ran a crypto mining pool — coordinating hashpower, block rewards and payout infrastructure for a community of miners. A ground-level education in how proof-of-work networks and their incentives actually work.
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~2012
Into Bitcoin & Crypto
Fell down the Bitcoin rabbit hole around 2012 — mining, reading, experimenting. Early enough to learn the space from first principles, long before it went institutional.
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SINCE 2009
Financial Markets
Where it all began, back in 2009 — learning how value moves, how risk is priced, and how institutions earn trust. The grounding under everything since.
Let's talk markets — or tech.
Listings, partnerships, a project you think should be on Kraken, or just to talk markets and crypto — my inbox and DMs are open.