Gemini was founded in 2014 by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and launched in 2015 as a New York limited-purpose trust company chartered by the state's Department of Financial Services. That charter is the company's identity: it means Gemini is a qualified custodian under New York banking law and serves New York residents without a separate BitLicense. In September 2025 the parent, Gemini Space Station, Inc., listed on Nasdaq under GEMI. It supports around 100 assets, runs an ActiveTrader order book, offers staking on a small list of coins, and issues a no-annual-fee credit card that pays rewards in crypto.
The last four years have been harder than the first seven. Gemini Earn, a yield product that lent customer assets to Genesis, froze in November 2022 when Genesis stopped withdrawals, tying up more than $1 billion of customer crypto. Customers eventually got their assets back in kind in 2024 after a New York settlement, but the episode still defines Gemini's public reviews, and its Trustpilot score of around 1.4 out of 5 is among the lowest of any exchange in this comparison. The other recurring theme is document requests: Gemini is known for asking already-verified customers for more paperwork before releasing a withdrawal.
Anytime Capital is built on the opposite premise. It is an American money services business with a storefront on Piedmont Road in Atlanta, an office in Miami's One Biscayne Tower, and a phone number, (470) 748-2530, that reaches a person. It serves customers wherever they are, with the branch, the phone line and the cash rails as extras. It never lends your coins, because it never holds them: purchases are delivered to a non-custodial wallet you control. It is not an order book. The crypto is the same. The experience around it is not.