Crypto Exchanges
By Dan Saada
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What Makes Gemini Worth Buying at This Price. The custody piece is probably the biggest draw. Secure storage for digital assets is genuinely…
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The Harder Questions Around Any Deal. Still, buying Gemini wouldn't be simple. The broader crypto market has been volatile, and…
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Broader Context: Distressed Crypto Assets Draw Buyers. It's worth remembering that the crypto industry has seen this pattern before.
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Gemini's market value has collapsed. The crypto exchange now sits at roughly $753 million — down 80% from where it traded after its IPO — and that number is pulling fresh…
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The drop is steep enough that people are starting to look at Gemini less as a struggling exchange and more as a bundle of assets that might be worth more to someone else. Licenses.
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That's the part that's murky. Gemini hasn't said anything publicly about acquisition talks, and no potential buyer has stepped forward.
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The licenses matter too. Crypto regulation is still a mess in a lot of jurisdictions, but Gemini has spent years accumulating the approvals it needs to operate. That's not nothing.
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And then there's the customer side. Gemini has built relationships over time, and those relationships are sticky in ways that raw user numbers don't fully capture.
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There's also the question of why Gemini's valuation fell so hard in the first place. An 80% drop isn't just market noise.
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Gemini's silence on the whole thing is notable. Companies that are actively in talks usually go quiet. Companies that aren't in talks sometimes go quiet too.
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It's worth remembering that the crypto industry has seen this pattern before. Platforms that looked shaky on paper ended up getting absorbed by larger players who wanted the…
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What's clear is that the assets Gemini has built — the custody systems, the licenses, the customer relationships — are real.
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The market is watching the valuation closely. At $753 million, Gemini is probably cheap enough to be interesting to a certain kind of buyer.
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