Gemini, the American cryptocurrency exchange founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, seems ready to deepen his trip into decentralized financing with the approaching launch of ‘Gemini Onchain’.
In a cryptic X post on August 5, the exchange urged followers to ‘believe in’, a link to a website with the name ‘Horizon’, the embedded Javascript of which the true destination took its true destination until the countdown ends on August 14.
When inspecting the link, the Defiant found a hidden URL embedded in the JavaScript code of the page, pointing to a website for Gemini Onchain, which seems to be its own Defi platform, as well as a self-coastal wall product, Gemini wallet.
Gemini Onchain interface. Source: Gemini
Gemini Onchain interface. Source: Gemini
The platform shows a dashboard that is reminiscent of Web3 portals on other centralized exchanges, such as Binance and OKX, which offers a Defi-protocolaggregator, in addition to self-spice portion, and SWAP functionalities.
For each current design, it seems that users will be able to implement token swaps Natatively, allocate assets to interest-bearing “Prime Vault” and “Frontier Vault” products, and gain access to popular decentralized exchanges (DEXS) such as Uniswap, Rewas-Domain Registers Redirects-Via Redirects.
Gemini Onchain interface. Source: Gemini
A hidden link in the Code of Horizon website also leads to a vacancy for a senior software engineering position in the Onchain team of Gemini.
According to the offer, the team builds “Gemini’s OnRamps to the blockchain” from CSS to ECDSA “and works on blockchain-based products and supporting platforms, including deployment, transfers and custody. The message offers no further details about the broader goal or the scope of Gemini Onchain.
“As a senior software engineer in the Onchain domain you work together with talented engineers to improve and expand the functions of our blockchain-based products and the supporting platforms, including deployment, transfers and guardianship products,” says the description of the task, without taking effect on Gemini Onchain.
Gemini has not publicly confirmed the functionality of the Onchain platform, nor public statements regarding its strategic intention. The challenging contact with Gemini for comments, but did not hear per press from the team.
Cefi to push
The drive to integrate CEFI and Defi is not unique for Gemini. Coinbase, the largest American CEX of Daily Volumes, launched a self-herb portion, who recently renamed ‘Base app’, combining the brand with his Ethereum Layer 2, Baseer 2, Baseer 2, and adding more functionality to the chain to add wallet, trade, payments and diverse in a few.
Kraken, another summit of the US-based crypto exchange, also launched his own L2 network, called Ink, on the Superchain of Optimism in December 2024, and introduced his native inkken in June 2025. The token, now spread among early users via AirDrops, serves the guests of unchain transactions.
The leadership of Asia after
The urge to bring all financial services under one roof is accelerated in the US, because supervisors continue to continue with crypto-friendly legislation and policies that offers high-awaited clarity for industry.
As the Defiant reported earlier, Western Fintech and Crypto companies actively trying to pursue the Super app model of Asia, illustrated by WeChat. Douglas Colkitt, initial contribution to Layer 1 Blockchain Fogo, The Defiant said that the idea of “Everything Apps” has had a cultural chokehold for the technical industry in the last decade, which further adds that the fact “Coinbase and Robinhood have comparable ambitions for finances.”
However, others seem to be more skeptical. Mike Maloney from Incyt warned that Super apps threaten the decentralized vision of crypto, they called ‘vaporware’ and claim that they promote the absorption of regulations, the suffocation of competition and overwhelming users, while distracting Cryptos’s core principles of trust and transparency.
