{"id":709268,"date":"2026-01-25T14:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T11:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/sec-drops-lawsuit-against-winklevoss-twins-gemini-crypto-exchange\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T14:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T11:10:12","slug":"sec-drops-lawsuit-against-winklevoss-twins-gemini-crypto-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/sec-drops-lawsuit-against-winklevoss-twins-gemini-crypto-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"SEC drops lawsuit against Winklevoss twins\u2019 Gemini crypto exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Securities and Exchange Commission has dropped its lawsuit against Gemini, the crypto exchange founded by twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Winklevoss twins were donors to Donald Trump\u2019s re-election campaign and also backed his family\u2019s business ventures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/files\/litigation\/litreleases\/2026\/joint26465.pdf\">a joint filing<\/a> on Friday, the SEC and Gemini asked the court to dismiss the lawsuit, which centered on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/23\/us\/politics\/sec-crypto-winklevoss.html\">the collapse of an investment product called Gemini Earn<\/a>, with some investors losing access to their money for 18 months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New York Attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">General<\/a> Letitia James sued Gemini in 2023 and accused the company of defrauding investors. To justify dismissing the SEC\u2019s case, the new filing points to a 2024 settlement between New York and Gemini, with investors ultimately receiving \u201cone hundred percent of the crypto assets they had loaned [\u2026] through the Gemini Earn program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ears to be a larger pattern of leniency from the Trump administration towards the crypto industry. The New York Times previously reported that <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/12\/14\/us\/politics\/sec-crypto-firms-trump-investigation.html\">the SEC has either dismissed, paused, or reduced penalties<\/a> in more than 60 percent of the crypto lawsuits pending when Trump took office last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gemini has also filed to go public.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. Follow us on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMN63nwsw68G3Aw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Google News<\/a><\/span>\u00a0too, click on the star and choose us from your favorites.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more like this article, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Technology<\/a><\/span> category.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/01\/24\/sec-drops-lawsuit-against-winklevoss-twins-gemini-crypto-exchange\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Securities and Exchange Commission has dropped its lawsuit against Gemini, the crypto exchange founded by twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss. The Winklevoss twins were donors to Donald Trump\u2019s re-election campaign and also backed his family\u2019s business ventures. In a joint filing on Friday, the SEC and Gemini asked the court to dismiss the lawsuit,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":709269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/winklevoss-brothers4.jpg?resize=1200,800","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[76971,75736,74864,151537,118001],"class_list":["post-709268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-cameron-winklevoss","tag-crypto","tag-gemini","tag-government-policy","tag-tyler-winklevoss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}