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Gemini

US exchange · customer custody · @Gemini · @Gemini

Total on-chain holdings$5.20B
24h+0.58%
TypeExchange (custody)

The address cluster was truncated by the source at 100,000 addresses. The figure above is a lower bound, not a full measurement, anything held at addresses we do not know is absent.

This cluster is Gemini's exchange reserves: customer coin held in custody by a New York trust company, not the firm's own position. It is unusually BTC-heavy for a venue: bitcoin is roughly six of every seven dollars here, with ether making up almost all of the rest.

The desk's read

The shape says custody rather than trading. A venue that ran a large book would show stablecoin float, LP positions and spread across a dozen chains; Gemini shows bitcoin sitting still on Bitcoin, and ether sitting still on Ethereum. That is what a regulated custodian's balance sheet looks like when clients buy majors and leave them.

Read movement here as client flow, not as a call. Coin arriving means deposits; coin leaving means withdrawals or a move between the venue's own wallets. Neither is Gemini expressing a view, and both matter for supply: exchange balances falling has historically meant coin going to self-custody rather than to market.

The addresses behind this number come from Gemini's own reserve disclosures rather than from a label vendor, which is why the figure moved from nothing to billions when the source changed. The vendor sets pointed at drained hot wallets; the reserves were never there.

What they hold

Largest token positions on-chain data maps to this entity, by USD value.

Asset?Chain?Value?
BTCbitcoin$4.37B
ETHethereum$699.8M
LINKethereum$50.6M
PEPEethereum$11.4M
GUSDethereum$10.6M
UNIethereum$5.4M
SHIBethereum$4.5M
MATICethereum$4.4M
USDCethereum$3.4M
INJethereum$3.3M
Asset token tickerChain where it livesValue USD, live-priced — moves with the market

How to read a row → BTC · bitcoin · $4.37B: this entity's largest position is $4.37B of BTC held on bitcoin. Rows are sorted by USD value, so the top row is the biggest bet.

By chain

Network?Value?
bitcoin$4.37B
ethereum$820.8M
optimism$595K
base$196K
bsc$150K
Network blockchainValue USD across every token this entity holds on it

How to read a row → bitcoin · $4.37B: $4.37B of the holdings live on bitcoin. Chains are ranked by value, so the top row is where most of the money sits.

Source: balances read directly from public chain RPCs, priced via DeFiLlama. USD-denominated, so they move with price as well as with flows. Updated 23 Aug 2026.

Other exchange (custody): Binance · OKX · Bitfinex · Robinhood

Not investment advice. Entity labels are on-chain attribution and can be imperfect; a labelled balance may mix personal, treasury and custody wallets. Large balances do not imply intent, some never move.