Billionaire brothers get regulatory nod to launch prediction market

Gemini Space Station, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEMI) announced that its affiliate, Gemini Titan, LLC, has received authorization from the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to run arsenic a Designated Contract Market (DCM).

The support allows Gemini to connection regulated event-based prediction markets to US customers, according to a property merchandise issued connected Dec. 10, 2025.

Gemini archetypal applied for a DCM licence connected March 10, 2020, marking the extremity of a five-year reappraisal process that co-founder Tyler Winklevoss described connected X arsenic “the opening of a caller chapter” for the company.

“Today’s support marks the culmination of a 5-year licensing process and the opening of a caller section for @Gemini,” Winklevoss wrote. “We convey @POTUS for ending the Biden Administration’s War connected Crypto and Acting Chairman @CarolineDPham for her hard enactment and dedication to assistance recognize President Trump’s imaginativeness for making America the crypto superior of the world.”

The Winklevoss twins accrued their backing of Trump aft what they saw arsenic the Biden administration’s “war connected crypto.” Under Biden, regulators similar the SEC and CFTC intensified enforcement actions against exchanges, creating uncertainty for firms similar Gemini.

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Prediction markets let participants to commercialized contracts based connected the result of aboriginal events. These “event contracts” are framed arsenic elemental yes-or-no questions — for example, whether Bitcoin (BTC) volition adjacent the twelvemonth supra a circumstantial terms oregon whether the Federal Reserve volition chopped rates oregon not.

Each contract’s terms reflects the market’s perceived probability of the lawsuit occurring.

With CFTC approval, Gemini Titan joins a abbreviated database of regulated platforms successful the US offering event-based trading, presently led by Kalshi and Polymarket.

Kalshi, founded successful 2018 and besides regulated by the CFTC, offers lawsuit contracts connected economical indicators, politics, sports, and popular culture. The level has positioned itself arsenic a regulated alternate to offshore betting exchanges.

Polymarket, by contrast, operates connected the blockchain and allows users to commercialized outcomes utilizing stablecoins. It is the world's largest prediction market, which recently raised $2 cardinal from the New York Stock Exchange parent, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), astatine a valuation of $9 billion.

Prediction markets are steadily becoming important successful accepted finance. Recently, a Wall Street survey revealed that galore are optimistic astir the aboriginal of prediction markets, though a definite level of caution remains.