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<ul><li>Gemini generated $68.6M in revenue in H1 2025, down 8% YoY as institutional volume surged 60% to $21.5B (87% of total) and compressed its blended take rate to 0.18%.</li><li>While Gemini's trading volume surged 50% to $24.8B in H1 2025 from $16.6B in H1 2024, revenue declined 8% YoY to $68.6M as lower-fee institutional trading volume ($21.5B in H1’25, up from $13.4B) grew to 87% of overall volume while retail was flat (~$3.3B), causing Gemini’s blended take rate to decline from 0.31% to 0.18%.</li><li>Gemini, Kraken & Coinbase form the holy trinity of US-native, compliant crypto exchanges for retail (Coinbase), pro traders (Kraken), and institutional (Gemini), with banks & hedge funds using Gemini to place large, low-fee BTC-focused trades without moving the order book & keep assets with a NY-regulated qualified custodian.</li></ul>

Gemini generated $68.6M in revenue in H1 2025, down 8% YoY as institutional volume surged 60% to $21.5B (87% of total) and compressed its blended take rate to 0.18%.While Gemini's trading volume surged 50% to $24.8B in H1 2025 from $16.6B in H1 2024, revenue declined 8% YoY to $68.6M as lower-fee institutional trading volume ($21.5B in H1’25, up from $13.4B) grew to 87% of overall volume while retail was flat (~$3.3B), causing Gemini’s blended take rate to decline from 0.31% to 0.18%.Gemini, Kraken & Coinbase form the holy trinity of US-native, compliant crypto exchanges for retail (Coinbase), pro traders (Kraken), and institutional (Gemini), with banks & hedge funds using Gemini to place large, low-fee BTC-focused trades without moving the order book & keep assets with a NY-regulated qualified custodian.

<ul><li>Midas is valued at approximately $1 billion following its $80 million Series B round in August 2025, led by QED Investors.</li><li>Midas operates a B2C freemium model that uses zero-commission Turkish equity trading as a customer acquisition tool while generating revenue through international market access and ancillary services.</li><li>Midas is broadening its offerings beyond equity trading to include derivatives, with US options scheduled for launch in September 2025 and Turkish equity options to follow.</li></ul>

Midas is valued at approximately $1 billion following its $80 million Series B round in August 2025, led by QED Investors.Midas operates a B2C freemium model that uses zero-commission Turkish equity trading as a customer acquisition tool while generating revenue through international market access and ancillary services.Midas is broadening its offerings beyond equity trading to include derivatives, with US options scheduled for launch in September 2025 and Turkish equity options to follow.

<ul><li>Alpaca hit $60M in annualized revenue in 2024, up 150% YoY as trading volume tripled to ~$180B.</li><li>Alpaca (2015) launched to do the same for the rest of the world, enabling fintechs in Asia &amp; the Middle East to bolt U.S. equities, margin, and option trading into their apps.</li><li>Over the next year, Alpaca is adding global equities, fixed income, and deeper options capabilities, building towards coverage of every major asset class.</li></ul>

Alpaca hit $60M in annualized revenue in 2024, up 150% YoY as trading volume tripled to ~$180B.Alpaca (2015) launched to do the same for the rest of the world, enabling fintechs in Asia &amp; the Middle East to bolt U.S. equities, margin, and option trading into their apps.Over the next year, Alpaca is adding global equities, fixed income, and deeper options capabilities, building towards coverage of every major asset class.

<ul><li>With the crash of the NFT market, OpenSea’s average weekly transaction volume dropped 98% from $1.4B in 2022 to less than $20M as of 2025.</li><li>The NFT market's collapse in 2022 marked the end of NFTs as financialized assets—bundled with equity-like upside, pseudo-membership rights, or meme coin appeal—and took down the generalist marketplaces built around that thesis, with OpenSea falling from 97% share in 2022 to 13% in 2024 as exchange-based NFT platforms from Coinbase and Kraken shuttered entirely.</li><li>From the wreckage, luxury has held up as the enduring use case for NFTs, offering a programmable container for creating expensive & scarce digital objects—products like Louis Vuitton’s $40K “Treasure Trunks” and Hublot’s $60K NFT-paired watches that, like traditional luxury goods and fine art, derive value from controlled access & scarcity, high-quality craftsmanship & materials, heritage & provenance and cultural credibility as conferred by institutions like LACMA and MoMA.</li></ul>

With the crash of the NFT market, OpenSea’s average weekly transaction volume dropped 98% from $1.4B in 2022 to less than $20M as of 2025.The NFT market's collapse in 2022 marked the end of NFTs as financialized assets—bundled with equity-like upside, pseudo-membership rights, or meme coin appeal—and took down the generalist marketplaces built around that thesis, with OpenSea falling from 97% share in 2022 to 13% in 2024 as exchange-based NFT platforms from Coinbase and Kraken shuttered entirely.From the wreckage, luxury has held up as the enduring use case for NFTs, offering a programmable container for creating expensive & scarce digital objects—products like Louis Vuitton’s $40K “Treasure Trunks” and Hublot’s $60K NFT-paired watches that, like traditional luxury goods and fine art, derive value from controlled access & scarcity, high-quality craftsmanship & materials, heritage & provenance and cultural credibility as conferred by institutions like LACMA and MoMA.

Duncan Cock Foster, co-founder Of Nifty Gateway, On NFTs As Luxury Goods

<ul><li>In Latin America's volatile business environment—currency fluctuations, shifting trade tariffs, and unpredictable interest rate cycles— Kapital has adapted to monetize in any economic condition, generating revenue from deposits when rates are high, financing "buy now, pay later" through Kapital Flex when rates fall, and providing stablecoin options when local currencies destabilize.</li><li>Starting in Mexico, Kapital initially expanded to Colombia over Brazil, looking to expand into large markets first in LatAm and then globally that lack competition to servicing SMEs (less than 250 employees, ~50% of global employment), particularly where incumbent banks consider them too small for relationship banking and fintechs focus on consumer.</li><li>The lack of competition in these markets has given Kapital a head start to roll up the bank account (Mercury), corporate card (Brex), expense management (Ramp), AP/AR (Bill.com), and treasury (Meow) into an all-in-one, with line of sight into rolling up the entire SME backoffice including HR, payroll, and employee benefits.</li></ul>

In Latin America's volatile business environment—currency fluctuations, shifting trade tariffs, and unpredictable interest rate cycles— Kapital has adapted to monetize in any economic condition, generating revenue from deposits when rates are high, financing "buy now, pay later" through Kapital Flex when rates fall, and providing stablecoin options when local currencies destabilize.Starting in Mexico, Kapital initially expanded to Colombia over Brazil, looking to expand into large markets first in LatAm and then globally that lack competition to servicing SMEs (less than 250 employees, ~50% of global employment), particularly where incumbent banks consider them too small for relationship banking and fintechs focus on consumer.The lack of competition in these markets has given Kapital a head start to roll up the bank account (Mercury), corporate card (Brex), expense management (Ramp), AP/AR (Bill.com), and treasury (Meow) into an all-in-one, with line of sight into rolling up the entire SME backoffice including HR, payroll, and employee benefits.

Fernando Sandoval, co-founder Of Kapital, On Tropicalizing Brex For LatAm

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Kraken is a US-based cryptocurrency exchange. The exchange allows investors to trade Bitcoin, Ethereum and 500+ other cryptocurrencies. Kraken enables more advanced trading strategies, including margin trading, indices, futures, OTC trading, and staking.

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Duncan Cock Foster, co-founder Of Nifty Gateway, On NFTs As Luxury Goods

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Fernando Sandoval, co-founder Of Kapital, On Tropicalizing Brex For LatAm

I'd like to begin by framing everything - what were the things that really gave you momentum last year? And which areas of the business did you...

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