The company is being sued for an amount of  $ 900,000 The former Kraken employee says that the company did not cancel his salary for the time he worked. The employee whose name is Jonathan Silverman worked as an institutional sales manager in New York since 2017; he indicated that he reached an agreement with the Kraken founder of a salary of $ 150,000 plus a commission of 10% of the annual profits of the trading desk.

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In the lawsuit it is detailed that the trading desk generated more than 19 million dollars in profits during three months in the year 2017, but that never received the commissions. On the other hand a Kraken spokeswoman says that Silverman is lying and also broke a confidentiality agreement.