Crypto Exchange Gemini Shatters Expectations with Blockbuster IPO Launch

Gemini rockets into public markets—crypto's latest legitimacy play hits Wall Street with seismic force.

The Timing Play

Launching amid peak institutional curiosity, Gemini leverages crypto’s thawing regulatory frost. Not just an exchange—a statement.

Market Impact

Expect ripple effects: competing platforms now face IPO pressure. Traditional finance finally gets a pure-play crypto stock. Traders win with fresh liquidity; skeptics get ammunition.

Behind the Hype

No revenue figures disclosed—typical crypto opaqueness dressed in IPO clothing. Wall Street bankers pocket fees while retail investors brace for volatility. Because nothing says 'trust' like a sector that invented 'rug pulls'.

Gemini’s move isn’t just listing shares—it’s forcing traditional finance to swallow crypto’s disruptive pill. Ready or not.

Gemini Space Station, Inc. (“Gemini”), a global crypto platform, announced the launch of its initial public offering of 16,666,667 shares of Class A common stock pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-1 filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”).

In connection with the offering, Gemini and the selling stockholders intend to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 2,396,348 and 103,652 shares of Class A common stock, respectively, to cover over-allotments. The initial public offering price is currently expected to be between $17.00 and $19.00 per share of Class A common stock. The proposed offering is subject to market and other conditions, and there can be no assurance as to whether or when the offering may be completed, or as to the actual size or terms of the offering.

Gemini has applied to list its Class A common stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol “GEMI.”

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC and Citigroup are acting as lead bookrunners. Morgan Stanley and Cantor are also acting as lead bookrunners. Evercore ISI, Mizuho, Truist Securities, Cohen & Company Capital Markets, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, A Stifel Company, Needham & Company, and Rosenblatt are acting as bookrunners. Academy Securities, AmeriVet Securities, and Roberts & Ryan are acting as co-managers.

The offering will be made only by means of a prospectus. A copy of the preliminary prospectus related to the offering may be obtained from Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Attention: Prospectus Department, 200 West Street, New York, New York 10282, telephone: 1-866-471-2526, or email: [email protected]; or Citigroup, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717 (Tel: 800-831-9146).

A registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with the SEC but has not yet become effective. These securities may not be sold nor may offers to buy be accepted prior to the time the registration statement becomes effective. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation, or sale WOULD be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.

Source: Gemini