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what's gemini?

Gemini is a cryptocurrency exchange and custodian founded in 2014 by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss. It operates as a regulated platform under a New York State BitLicense, emphasizing security, compliance, and institutional-grade services. Users can buy, sell, and store major cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum, with features including API support, FIX protocol for trading, and a stablecoin called Gemini Dollar (GUSD) pegged 1:1 to the US dollar. The platform prioritizes transparency and risk management, having completed SOC 2 audits and holding client assets in cold storage. Gemini supports a range of trading pairs and has expanded to offer staking, lending (historically), and custody solutions for institutions. It differentiates itself through its focus on regulatory adherence, making it a trusted option for both retail and professional traders in the US and select international markets. Gemini's infrastructure includes advanced surveillance tools to prevent market manipulation, and it has pioneered approvals for assets like Ethereum and Ethereum Classic. The exchange continues to evolve with global expansions, such as registrations in regions like Australia, while maintaining a commitment to user protections and innovation in the crypto ecosystem.

Snapshot

Gemini partnered with Google for Walmart purchases, launched margin trading, and integrated with Gmail.

2D ago
PARTNERSHIP

Partners with Google to enable Walmart customers to purchase products through Gemini.

3D ago
MARKET ACTIVITY

Launched margin trading with up to 5× leverage for BTC/USD, ETH/USD, SOL/USD, and XRP/USD pairs.

4D ago
TECH EVENT

Integrated with Gmail through multiple new integrations.

1W ago
FINANCIAL EVENT

Donated $21 million to Trump-backed MAGA Inc. PAC ahead of U.S. midterm elections.

2W ago
PARTNERSHIP

Integrated with Morpho's lending network to power its Earn/Loans offerings.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Launched trading and custody support for BNB token.

REGULATORY

Blocked by Philippine ISPs following National Telecommunications Commission order citing lack of authorization from Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, as part of restrictions on approximately 50 unauthorized trading platforms.

3W ago
MARKET ACTIVITY

Introduced USD rails for UK institutional customers.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Integrated into Gate's Simple Earn program offering up to 200% APR for new users.

REGULATORY

Joined 125+ companies in urging U.S. Congress to maintain the GENIUS Act without changes to preserve legal stablecoin rewards and innovation provisions.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Accepted as a payment option alongside USDT for Gate Launchpad #5 (Kodiak token sale) running from December 19, 08:00 to December 21, 08:00 UTC.

1M ago

Gemini Predictions launches and is now live across all 50 US states, allowing users to trade on real-world event outcomes with near instant execution and full transparency.

Stock surges nearly 14% following the announcement that prediction markets can now be offered in the US.

CFTC issues no-action letter to Gemini providing conditional relief from certain recordkeeping and data-reporting requirements for prediction-market and derivatives services, with no enforcement action as long as specified compliance conditions are met.

GEMI now holds US license for prediction markets, valued at $1.5B with 13% short interest.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission approved the application for a derivatives exchange, allowing entry into prediction markets, with the stock rising 15%.

The project became a prediction market stock.

GEMI became a Predictions Market stock overnight.

CFTC grants Designated Contract Market approval for Gemini Titan platform to offer prediction market binary event contracts, with potential expansion into crypto futures, options, and perpetuals.

Tyler Winklevoss appointed to the newly formed CFTC CEO Innovation Council, which will advise on derivatives market structure issues including tokenization, perpetuals, prediction markets, 24/7 trading, and blockchain-based infrastructure.

Gemini adds support for Ripple's stablecoin RLUSD on the XRP Ledger (XRPL).

Platform expands to Australia, adding AUD support for deposits and trading across 70+ cryptocurrencies including its ActiveTrader® platform.

Gemini completes a $425M IPO fundraise in 2025.

GEMI operates as a newly public company and expands aggressively to capture market share in the increasingly competitive crypto exchange landscape.

Spot trading volume on the exchange grew from $33 billion to $49 billion during the period when total CEX spot volume hit a record $13.1 trillion.

Gemini appointed as primary custodian for VanEck's spot Solana ETF (VSOL), which launched November 17, 2025 on Cboe BZX Exchange with $10 million in seeded assets.

Gemini sponsors David Gokhshtein's media brand, which reaches 2.63M audience members with 1.85M show viewers and 2.3M views on X clips.

Platform offers 4% APR on RLUSD and GUSD stablecoins for passive rewards.

A Polymarket trader earned +160k by successfully betting on the exact timing of the Gemini 3.0 launch.

The Gemini credit card provides 4% cashback on gas purchases, with rewards paid in ZEC (Zcash) cryptocurrency.

$GEMI token down 65% from IPO price in 2 months and 80% from launch day high, following an oversubscribed IPO.

Text generation is fully functional, with users able to create customized charts and article content in twenty seconds.

Crypto trader pakpakchicken (Chicken Genius) deposits 77 ETH (~$218K) to the platform.

App downloads catch up to ChatGPT levels, and users spend more time in the app than ChatGPT users.

New users receive $200 bonus when signing up for the Gemini Credit Card during the holiday promotion.

Gemini Credit Card launches 12-day promotional campaign offering 5% cashback on all purchases.

Gemini can only create new slides but cannot edit multiple slides in a single request, showing functional limitations compared to competitor Claude's more advanced presentation design capabilities. (1993080220497461721)

Market share grows from 23% to 30% following Gemini 3 launch.

Users report Gemini 3 becomes unusable after 9am Eastern, indicating significant performance degradation during daytime hours.

Gemini launches new Google Chrome browser integration with an embedded button that enables direct interaction with links and PDFs without copy-pasting.

Gemini app deploys G3 for thinking mode while fast mode uses G2.5, G3 requires waitlist access in Gemini Code, and G3 is default in Antigravity.

Scenario.gg now supports Gemini 3.0 for visual content generation.

Nano Banana Pro goes live on Gemini app and web, displaying reasoning traces during generation.

Replit integrates Gemini 3 into its newly launched Design mode feature.

Gemini 3 reaches State of the Art performance on SWE Bench Verified benchmark with standardized testing methodology.

Gemini becomes official partner of PubKey and hosts a livestream event on 11/20 at 10AM EST raising funds for Project K9 Hero.

Gemini 3 adds new reasoning and tool use capabilities including thinking_level for task requirements, thought signatures for stateful tool use, and larger context window for managing drift. LangGraph, LangChain, and Deep Agents launch support for Gemini 3 today.

A trader moved their entire liquid net worth from NVDA to GOOG approximately one month ago based on conviction in Gemini 3.

Multiple users report technical failures with Gemini 3 after its launch.

Replit announces Design, a new AI design experience focused on beautiful UIs, powered by Gemini 3.0.

Gemini 3 becomes available on anycoder via Hugging Face, featuring new UI and built-in support for Gradio, Steamlit, transformers.js, ComfyUI, and React apps.

Antigravity development platform launches today as VS Code fork with integrated Gemini 3 Pro, Gemini 2.5 Computer Use, and Nano Banana for rich media generation.

Gemini 3 pricing announced at $2 per 1M input tokens and $12 per 1M output tokens. Launch is preview only, not generally available on Day 1.

Polymarket projects Gemini 3.0 launches today. Gemini's full suite of models and tools work while ChatGPT and Claude remain down.

G3MINI serves as the name for Gemini 3 flash lite, a new variant of Gemini 3.

Gemini 3 release or major announcement expected this week with significant anticipation about its capabilities.

Natalie Brunell appears at Gemini HQ in NYC for livestream on 11/18 at 4pm EST to discuss her new book "Bitcoin is for Everyone" with free book giveaways.

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan asks Gemini 3 for help.

Gemini team meets with FlowTraders in Amsterdam, and FlowTraders commits to appear on Gemini's livestream to discuss crypto and markets.

Warren Buffett receives early access to Gemini 3.

2M ago

Gemini launches the American Business Card offering 1.5% bitcoin cashback on business expenses with no annual fee.

Mizuho maintains positive outlook calling it a 'hidden gem' despite 57% share decline since IPO.

Gemini provides institutional-grade crypto custody services for Cypherpunk Technologies' treasury.

Gemini is developing prediction market contracts.

Gemini announces plans to launch a small business credit card during Q3 earnings call, expanding beyond its existing consumer Bitcoin rewards credit card. Q3 results show $159.5M net loss, steeper than analyst expectations, with stock falling 7-12%.

Gemini reports first post-IPO earnings with 52% revenue increase, but stock drops to all-time low.

Gemini receives AA rating in November 2025 Exchange Benchmark, placing it among 8 top-tier exchanges alongside Binance, Coinbase, Kraken, and others.

Performance update shows Gemini now up 100% in 10 days in OpenArena competition.

The Winklevoss twins transfer 250 BTC to Gemini hot wallets.

LINKS by LinksDAO now trading on Gemini with deposits and withdrawals enabled.

Gemini enables shielded withdrawals directly to the Orchard pool with no on-chain records revealing wallet addresses or amounts.

OpenServ AI agents launch on Hyperliquid with Gemini up 74% in a live trading competition.

Gemini partners with Ripple, Mastercard, and WebBank to launch the Gemini XRP Credit Card with RLUSD settlement on the XRP Ledger for fiat credit card payments. The initiative enables faster, compliant, and more transparent settlement within traditional finance.

Gemini launches XRP perpetual trading in the EU with up to 100x leverage available.

Gemini launches in Australia with AUD trading support, allowing users to deposit and trade with Australian dollars.

Gemini applied to the CFTC to launch prediction market contracts, with approval potentially delayed by the U.S. government shutdown according to Bloomberg.

Gemini ranks first on the OpenServ AI prediction market AI Arena.

The project went public 6 weeks ago and $GEMI now trades 62% below its day 1 high and 38% below the IPO sale price.

WLD token by Worldcoin now trades on Gemini with deposits and withdrawals enabled.

Native support for USDC and USDT stablecoins goes live on the platform.

Gemini CLI integrates with Autonome to enable autonomous LLM payments on Polygon for premium API endpoints, on-demand compute, and data access without human intervention.

Gemini launched a Solana Credit Card that offers SOL rewards with automatic staking on every purchase.

Gemini featured in Token2049 Singapore panel discussion with Aptos, Helium, and Ammalgam on DeFi liquidity and capital efficiency.

Citigroup reports trading growth is slowing despite strong card sign-ups and app downloads, while competitor Bullish ($BLSH) momentum accelerates.

Gemini donated to the White House renovation.

The Gemini x Solana 48-hour stream-a-thon fundraiser raised $157,000 for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital through donate.gg.

Gemini founders submitted a comment letter in support of the Open Banking Rule, describing it as beneficial for crypto and financial innovation in America.

Day 2 of Gemini x Solana 48-hour stream-a-thon event is live, featuring Solana ecosystem founders and guests.

Gemini expresses bullish outlook on UK market as crypto adoption reaches 24%, while noting regulatory approval remains a barrier for many users.

Announces collaboration with Doodles featuring an IRL care package giveaway worth over $1,000.

The launched Solana credit card features 6.77% staking yield on rewards and expands an ecosystem-themed card lineup.

The Solana credit card offers up to 4% back in SOL with automatic staking of rewards.

Launches Solana edition credit card that rewards users with SOL tokens and automatically stakes the rewards.

The exchange enables USDC and USDT transfers on Solana.