Competition summary

Founded in 2011 and based in San Francisco, Kraken is the world's largest global Bitcoin exchange in euro volume and liquidity. Along with bitcoin and euros, hundreds of thousands of traders, institutions and authorities trust Kraken to facilitate trading in US and Canadian dollars, British pounds, Japanese yen, and a variety of digital assets like ether.

Kraken was the first digital asset exchange to have trading price and volume displayed on the Bloomberg Terminal, one of the first exchanges to offer leveraged bitcoin margin trading, the first to pass a cryptographically verifiable proof-of-reserves audit, is a partner in the world's first cryptocurrency bank, and is consistently rated the best and most secure digital asset exchange by independent news media.

They invited teams from universities across the world to submit a proposal to solve an investment issue, outlined below. Kraken will select the best three proposals, and the People's Choice winner rests in your hands.

Prizes

First place team receives $10,000

Second place receives $5,000

Third place receives $3,000

People’s Choice receives $3,000

*The case competition challenge and resulting selection of winners are based solely on the opinion of the challenge sponsor. The Economist does not endorse the opinions contained in the content of the challenge or the participants’ written and video submissions.

Read Kraken's feedback about the winners selection.