Key Points:
According to reports, Gemini regularly asserted last year that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s backing ensured the safety of the assets of consumers utilizing its Earn program (FDIC). Financial companies are not allowed to indicate that a product is FDIC-insured when it is not.
In November of last year, Gemini stopped accepting withdrawals from its Earn product due to the effects of the demise of another exchange, FTX.
The platform is thought to have about $900 million frozen as a result. The stoppage was attributed by Gemini to a similar freeze at the now-defunct cryptocurrency lender Genesis, a division of the blockchain giant Digital Currency Group. The exchange had invested monies from its Earn users there.
As the cryptocurrency market imploded last year, Gemini Earn customers repeatedly asked the company if their assets were safe. Some of Gemini’s responses, reviewed by Axios, emphasized connections to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Why it matters: Customers say that led them to believe their accounts were insured by the government agency. They weren’t.
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