Today marks the one-year anniversary of Gemini Block Trading™, a fully electronic block trading facility. Block trading enables our customers to buy and sell large quantities of digital assets outside of Gemini’s continuous order books, creating an additional on-exchange mechanism to source liquidity when trading in greater size.

Gemini customers have executed over $100mm (notional) of orders via Gemini Block Trading™, since its launch. This has not only been a great trading mechanism for institutional customers, but also for our individual customers who make up more than 85 percent of all block trading customers.

This is a great milestone as we **_build the future of money_**. We look forward to the many milestones to come in the years ahead!

Onward and Upward,

Team Gemini

Gemini Block Trading: One-Year Lookback

The season of giving is almost upon us. To celebrate, Gemini now allows users in the United States to give bitcoin to friends and family with the platform’s Gemini Gifting feature, [joining those with Gemini accounts in Singapore.](https://www.gemini.com/blog/gift-bitcoin-this-lunar-new-year-with-geminis-gifting-crypto-feature)

With Gemini Gifting, sending crypto is simple: 

- Choose the amount of bitcoin you want to gift from your Gemini account
- Enter the recipient’s name and email, alongside an optional gift message
- The recipient will receive an email notifying them of the gift and redemption instructions

If the recipient has yet to open a Gemini account, the email will walk them through how to sign up, and your gift will be held safely until an account is open. If users opt out, the crypto you sent will be returned to your wallet. 

[Send crypto or sign up to do it today!](https://exchange.gemini.com/giftingcrypto/send)

Onward and Upward!<br>
Team Gemini 


Gemini Gifting is Now Available for US Customers

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