Where is Gemini restricted?
Gemini is restricted in 166 of the 195 countries we cover: the 
United Kingdom, the 30 EEA countries and 
Australia, which it left in 2026, 
Canada, which it left in 2024, and 133 countries that are on neither of its lists, from 
Japan and 
India to 
Nigeria.
Gemini does not publish a list of banned countries. It publishes the ones it serves: an areas-of-availability page for spot trading and a perpetuals eligibility list (updated 16 September 2026). A country on neither list is not served, so we record it as restricted. The availability page still names the UK, the EEA states and Australia, but under a notice that every account there closed on 6 April 2026, as Gemini’s closure guide sets out. Canadian accounts closed on 31 December 2024, Decrypt reported; Gemini gave no reason, and OKX had left Canada the year before.
Two restricted countries carry more than Gemini’s silence. Its user agreement bars anyone in or resident of a country under US, UN or UK sanctions, which covers 
Cuba, 
Iran and 
North Korea. In the 
Philippines, the SEC issued an advisory against Gemini’s derivatives in May 2023, and in December 2025 internet providers blocked gemini.com after a regulator order covering 50 unlicensed platforms, BitPinas found.
The sign-up page backs the lists up. In every country Gemini left that we reached, and in ten it never served, the form gave way to “Gemini does not currently operate in” that country. The full list, grouped by reason, is below.
Afghanistan
Algeria
Angola
Antigua and Barbuda
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belize
Benin
Bhutan
Bolivia
Botswana
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cabo Verde
Cambodia
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Chad
Comoros
Côte d'Ivoire
Curaçao
Djibouti
Dominica
DR Congo
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Eswatini
Ethiopia
Fiji
Gabon
Gambia
Georgia
Gibraltar
Greenland
Grenada
Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Hong Kong
Iraq
Isle of Man
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Kosovo
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Macao
Madagascar
Malawi
Maldives
Mali
Marshall Islands
Mauritania
Mauritius
Micronesia
Monaco
Mongolia
Montenegro
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
Nicaragua
Niger
Oman
Pakistan
Palau
Palestine
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Qatar
Republic of the Congo
Russia
Rwanda
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Samoa
San Marino
São Tomé and Príncipe
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Sudan
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Suriname
Syria
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Timor-Leste
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Uganda
Ukraine
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Vatican City
Venezuela
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Cyprus
France
Albania
Andorra
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Brunei
China
Moldova
North Macedonia
United Arab Emirates
Guernsey
Jersey
Liechtenstein
MaltaWhere is Gemini limited?
Gemini is limited in 25 countries, and in each one a product is missing: 16 get spot trading without perpetuals, among them the 
United States, 
Mexico and 
Turkey, 7 get perpetuals without spot, such as 
South Korea and 
Switzerland, and in 
Brazil and 
New Zealand perpetuals are for institutional clients only.
The split comes from Gemini’s two lists. Fourteen countries are on the perpetuals list, but only five of them are also on the spot list, so the other countries on each list get one product. Prediction markets are not counted as a cut: Gemini’s predictions page says they are for US users only, as stocks and the credit card are.
Two of the perpetuals-only countries turned us away. From Switzerland and Indonesia the sign-up page answered that Gemini does not operate there, although both are on the perpetuals list; perpetuals need an ActiveTrader account, so the official list decides the status, and we keep both limited. The territories of Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico get spot only, and Taiwan perpetuals only. The countries and what applies in each are below.
| Category | Countries | Context | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|
| Partial service | Listed for spot, but not for Gemini's perpetuals, so derivatives are not offered. | 19 Oct 2026 | |
| Partial service | Perpetuals only: on Gemini's perpetuals list, not on its main list, so spot is not offered. | 17 Oct 2026 | |
| Partial service | Perpetuals for institutional clients only; not on Gemini's main list. | 17 Oct 2026 | |
| Partial service | Spot in all 50 states via Gemini Trust Company or Gemini Moonbase; perpetuals exclude US persons. | 17 Oct 2026 | |
| Partial service | Spot listed; perpetuals for institutional clients only. | 17 Oct 2026 |
Bahamas
Bermuda
British Virgin Islands
Cayman Islands
Costa Rica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
Ghana
Israel
Jamaica
Panama
Peru
Puerto Rico
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Uruguay
Malaysia
Saudi Arabia
Taiwan
Thailand
VietnamWhere is Gemini available?
Gemini is available in 4 of the 195 countries we cover: 
Argentina, 
Chile, 
Singapore and 
South Africa.
They are on both of Gemini’s lists without a restriction, so customers there can trade spot and perpetuals; Brazil, the fifth country on both lists, is limited because its perpetuals are for institutions only. Singapore also has a company of its own: Gemini Digital Payments Singapore took over local accounts on 2 April 2025 and received its MAS licence as a major payment institution in September 2026.
Our test loaded the sign-up form in all four. Available means Gemini serves the country, not that local law allows crypto trading. The full list is below.
| Category | Countries | Context | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|
| No restriction | On Gemini's main list and its perpetuals list. | 17 Oct 2026 | |
| No restriction | Served by Gemini Digital Payments Singapore (MAS licence); on the perpetuals list too. | 17 Oct 2026 |
Where do Gemini’s visitors come from?
The United States sends close to half of gemini.com’s visits in every estimate we checked, and India is in every top five, although Gemini does not serve it.
Semrush counts 3.78 million visits in September 2026, 45.43% from the United States and 14.22% from Bangladesh. Similarweb’s figures, published monthly by Cryip, give 2.38 million visits in June 2026, with the US at 46.40% and India at 4.35%, and Cryip’s datasets show the UK in the January top five at 2.56%. Similarweb’s own page refused our requests in October, so we use the published figures.
The UK is in Similarweb’s top five every month from January to May and drops out in June, two months after Gemini closed its accounts there. The restricted countries that remain need a caution: gemini.com shares its name with Google’s Gemini assistant, and Semrush credits 185,000 of the September visits to links from that assistant, so part of the traffic from Bangladesh and India may not be looking for an exchange at all. Estimators model traffic from panels and samples, so treat any single share as an estimate.
Gemini geo-access test: what we saw from 59 places
In our test Gemini’s home page loaded everywhere, but its sign-up page refused us in 43 of the 59 places we reached, with Gemini’s own message that it does not currently operate in that country.
We ran the test ourselves on 16 October 2026, with the same method as for every platform. A browser with a VPN connected to one country at a time and loaded Gemini’s home page and its sign-up page, each time in a fresh private window with no cookies. Cookie banners were hidden but never accepted, and bot checks were waited out, never solved. Every run saved the page text and a screenshot.
All 59 places, 57 of our 195 countries plus Hong Kong and Taiwan, went through VPN servers located in the country. Nigeria and Ukraine returned errors and count as not tested. The refusal appears in place of the sign-up form with a link to pick another country, so it reads the visitor’s location rather than blocking the whole site.
BlockedUnited Kingdom · Sign-up page
The United Kingdom, closed in April 2026: the sign-up form is replaced by a location check
“Gemini does not currently operate in United Kingdom.”
Blocked
Germany · Sign-up page
Germany, one of the EEA countries Gemini left, gets the same refusal
“Gemini does not currently operate in Germany.”
BlockedAustralia · Sign-up page
Australia, closed with the UK and the EEA on 6 April 2026
“Gemini does not currently operate in Australia.”
BlockedCanada · Sign-up page
Canada, which is not on Gemini's list of supported countries
“Gemini does not currently operate in Canada.”
BlockedJapan · Sign-up page
Japan, never on Gemini's list, refused in the same way
“Gemini does not currently operate in Japan.”
BlockedSwitzerland · Sign-up page
Switzerland, named on Gemini's perpetuals list, is still refused at sign-up
“Gemini does not currently operate in Switzerland.”
No barrierSouth Korea · Sign-up page
South Korea, a perpetuals-only market for Gemini: the sign-up form loads
No barrier
Colombia · Sign-up page
Colombia, missing from every Gemini list, still gets the sign-up form
No barrierSingapore · Sign-up page
Singapore, served by Gemini's MAS-licensed local company: the form loads
No barrierUnited States · Sign-up page
The United States, Gemini's home market, with the personal and business sign-up form
Blocked
Netherlands · Sign-up page
The Netherlands, one of the EEA countries Gemini left, gets the same refusal
“Gemini does not currently operate in Netherlands.”
Blocked
Spain · Sign-up page
Spain is one of the EEA countries Gemini left, and its sign-up page says so
“Gemini does not currently operate in Spain.”
Blocked
Italy · Sign-up page
Italy, closed with the rest of the EEA in April 2026: the sign-up form is replaced by a location check
“Gemini does not currently operate in Italy.”
Blocked
Poland · Sign-up page
Poland, one of the EEA countries Gemini left, gets the same refusal
“Gemini does not currently operate in Poland.”
No barrierTurkey · Home page
Turkey: the home page loads with no notice
Blocked
Indonesia · Sign-up page
Gemini refuses sign-up from Indonesia: its register page says it does not operate there
“Gemini does not currently operate in Indonesia.”
No barrierMexico · Sign-up page
Mexico: the account form loads with no barrier
“Create your account”
Blocked
Belgium · Sign-up page
Belgium, one of the EEA countries Gemini left, gets the same refusal
“Gemini does not currently operate in Belgium.”
Blocked
Portugal · Sign-up page
Portugal is one of the EEA countries Gemini left, and its sign-up page says so
“Gemini does not currently operate in Portugal.”
Blocked
Ireland · Sign-up page
Ireland, closed with the rest of the EEA in April 2026: the sign-up form is replaced by a location check
“Gemini does not currently operate in Republic of Ireland.”
Blocked
Austria · Sign-up page
Austria: Gemini says it does not operate here
“Gemini does not currently operate in Austria.”
No barrierNew Zealand · Sign-up page
New Zealand: sign-up loads with no notice, though New Zealand is not on its supported list
Blocked
Sweden · Sign-up page
Sweden: Gemini says it does not operate here
“Gemini does not currently operate in Sweden.”
Blocked
Norway · Sign-up page
Norway, closed with the rest of the EEA in April 2026: the sign-up form is replaced by a location check
“Gemini does not currently operate in Norway.”
Blocked
Luxembourg · Sign-up page
Luxembourg, closed with the rest of the EEA in April 2026: the sign-up form is replaced by a location check
“Gemini does not currently operate in Luxembourg.”
Blocked
Czechia · Sign-up page
Czechia, one of the EEA countries Gemini left, gets the same refusal
“Gemini does not currently operate in Czech Republic.”
Blocked
Romania · Sign-up page
Romania, one of the EEA countries Gemini closed in April 2026, gets the same refusal
“Gemini does not currently operate in Romania.”
Blocked
Hungary · Sign-up page
Hungary, one of the EEA countries Gemini left: the sign-up form is replaced by a refusal
“Gemini does not currently operate in Hungary.”
Blocked
Finland · Sign-up page
Finland, closed with the rest of the EEA in April 2026: the sign-up form is replaced by a location check
“Gemini does not currently operate in Finland.”
Blocked
Denmark · Sign-up page
Denmark: Gemini says it does not operate here
“Gemini does not currently operate in Denmark.”
Blocked
Greece · Sign-up page
Greece: closed with the rest of the EEA in April 2026: the sign-up form is replaced by a location check
“Gemini does not currently operate in Greece.”
Blocked
Bulgaria · Sign-up page
Bulgaria: closed with the rest of the EEA in April 2026: the sign-up form is replaced by a location check
“Gemini does not currently operate in Bulgaria.”
Blocked
Croatia · Sign-up page
Croatia: closed with the rest of the EEA in April 2026: the sign-up form is replaced by a location check
“Gemini does not currently operate in Croatia.”
Blocked
Latvia · Sign-up page
Latvia, closed with the rest of the EEA in April 2026: the sign-up form is replaced by a location check
“Gemini does not currently operate in Latvia.”
Blocked
Estonia · Sign-up page
Estonia, closed with the rest of the EEA in April 2026: the sign-up form is replaced by a location check
“Gemini does not currently operate in Estonia.”
Blocked
Lithuania · Sign-up page
Lithuania: closed with the rest of the EEA in April 2026: the sign-up form is replaced by a location check
“Gemini does not currently operate in Lithuania.”
Blocked
Slovakia · Sign-up page
Slovakia, one of the EEA countries Gemini left, gets the same refusal
“Gemini does not currently operate in Slovakia.”
Blocked
Slovenia · Sign-up page
Slovenia: closed with the rest of the EEA in April 2026: the sign-up form is replaced by a location check
“Gemini does not currently operate in Slovenia.”
Blocked
Iceland · Sign-up page
Iceland: the sign-up form is replaced by a location check
“Gemini does not currently operate in Iceland.”
Blocked
Serbia · Sign-up page
Serbia: the sign-up form is replaced by a refusal
“Gemini does not currently operate in Serbia.”
CRYPTORESTRICTIONSThe test does not decide a country’s status on its own: Gemini’s lists come first, and a form that loads is not permission to open an account.
Three patterns stand out. First, the refusal follows Gemini’s lists closely: 41 of the 42 restricted countries we reached were refused, every one Gemini left included. That is the opposite of Coinbase, which refused nobody by IP in the same kind of test. Second, the exceptions run both ways: Colombia and Hong Kong, on neither list, got the form, while Switzerland and Indonesia, on the perpetuals list, did not. Third, a form that loads proves little where Gemini checks residence at verification, which asks for an ID from your country of residence. Cuba, Iran, North Korea and most of Africa were not tested. The full result for every place is below.
All 59 test results, country by country
Gemini licences and registrations
Gemini holds 8 licences and registrations in 3 jurisdictions, six of them in the United States, one in Singapore and one MiCA authorisation in Malta that it no longer uses.
Gemini lists its US licences on its licences page and in its Trust Center; we checked the CFTC contract market, the MAS licence and the MiCA entry against the regulators’ own records. Six are licences or charters, one is a registration and one is an authorisation left unused.
United States
- New York: Gemini Trust Company, LLC is a limited liability trust company chartered by NYDFS in October 2015 (NMLS 1518126). It also holds a Nevada foreign independent trust company licence.
- State licences: money transmitter licences or their equivalent are held by the trust company and by Gemini Moonbase, LLC (NMLS 2403509), which has served most US customers since a move that began on 21 May 2025.
- Federal: Gemini Titan, LLC is a CFTC designated contract market for prediction markets (10 December 2025), Gemini Olympus, LLC received a CFTC clearinghouse licence in April 2026, and Gemini Galactic Markets is the FINRA broker-dealer behind US stock trading, according to Gemini’s stocks help page.
Asia-Pacific
- Singapore: Gemini Digital Payments Singapore Pte. Ltd. holds a major payment institution licence from the Monetary Authority of Singapore for digital payment token and cross-border transfer services.
Europe
- Malta (EEA passport): Gemini Intergalactic EU Ltd was authorised under MiCA by the MFSA on 21 August 2025 (covered in the next section). Its UK companies are being wound down: the FCA said on 6 February 2026 it would work with both firms until their permissions and registration are cancelled.
Gemini and MiCA in the EU
Gemini had a MiCA licence and left anyway: its Maltese company was authorised on 21 August 2025, and less than six months later Gemini announced it was closing every EEA account, which it did on 6 April 2026.
MiCA is the EU’s crypto rulebook, and since 30 December 2024 it has required exchanges serving EU clients to hold an authorisation from one member state (our MiCA article covers the rules). Gemini prepared for it: it removed twelve tokens for EEA customers from 17 June 2025, and ESMA’s register of authorised firms shows Gemini Intergalactic EU Ltd authorised by Malta’s MFSA and passported to 29 EEA states. In the file of 16 October 2026 the entry still has no end date.
Gemini is the one platform in our MiCA dataset that holds an authorisation it does not use. The reason was commercial, not regulatory: announcing the exit on 5 February 2026, the Winklevoss brothers wrote in Gemini 2.0 that Gemini would leave the UK, EU and Australian markets and cut its staff by about a quarter. Unlike Kraken, which serves all 30 EEA countries under an Irish authorisation, Gemini now has no EEA customers.
Gemini MiCA timeline
The wind-down took two months. New accounts and incentive programmes stopped first, deposits ended on 5 March 2026 in the UK and the EU and on 28 February in Australia, accounts then went withdrawal-only, and Gemini named eToro as the partner for customers moving their assets.
Is Gemini available in the US?
Yes, but limited: spot trading is open in all 50 states, Washington DC and Puerto Rico, while perpetual futures are closed to anyone in the US and two states lose a product.
Gemini Trust Company keeps customers in New York and Idaho, according to the Moonbase guide, and Gemini Moonbase serves the rest. Gemini’s perpetuals list excludes anyone physically in the US or counted as a US person under CFTC rules. US customers get products the rest of the world does not: prediction markets, stocks and ETFs, margin for eligible traders outside New York, and the Gemini Credit Card.
Where Gemini cuts products by state
Two state cuts are in our data:
- New York: Gemini’s Asset Rewards staking (updated 7 October 2026) is not open to New York residents while Gemini talks to NYDFS.
- Connecticut: after the state’s cease-and-desist orders of September 2026, Gemini stopped offering sports event contracts there, DeFi Rate reported on 8 October, citing CT Insider.
Stock trading is not yet live in Texas or Guam, according to Gemini’s stocks page, which says those launches are coming.
Gemini fines, lawsuits and market moves
Most of Gemini’s US cases came from Earn, the lending programme it ran with Genesis until withdrawals froze in November 2022. The SEC sued both firms in January 2023 and dismissed its case against Gemini with prejudice on 23 January 2026. NYDFS settled first: in February 2024 Gemini agreed to return at least $1.1 billion to Earn customers and pay a $37 million penalty.
A separate CFTC case over statements made in 2017 about a bitcoin futures contract ended in a $5 million settlement in January 2025. In 2026 the CFTC and Gemini asked the court to vacate part of that order, and on 15 October a federal judge refused. Prediction markets brought new cases: New York’s Attorney General sued Gemini and Coinbase in April 2026, calling their markets illegal gambling, and Connecticut ordered Gemini and eight other operators to stop sports contracts in September, WSHU reported.
Gemini KYC and identity verification
Gemini has one level of verification: a government photo ID and a biometric selfie, and an account cannot trade or transfer until both are done; Gemini publishes no tiers, only payment limits.
Gemini’s documents page (updated 23 February 2026) accepts a state ID, driving licence, passport or passport card, or Green Card from US residents, and a passport from the country of citizenship or a national ID or driving licence from the country of residence from everyone else. Its app guide says full trading and transfer capabilities open once verification is complete. US customers also give a Social Security number, which Gemini says it must collect as a New York trust company, and in some countries Gemini asks for source of wealth.
Limits depend on the payment method, not on a verification level: Gemini’s transfer limits page caps debit card purchases at $1,000 a day and ACH withdrawals at $100,000 a day for US customers. Its onboarding guide asks for the country of residence, not the nationality, and tells applicants to check the list of supported countries first.
Gemini verification history
Since 2023 Gemini has added checks on crypto transfers to meet the Travel Rule, first in the UK and then in the EEA from the end of December 2024 and in Singapore in 2025. Its customers have also changed company twice: Singapore accounts moved to the local company on 2 April 2025, and most US accounts to Gemini Moonbase from 21 May 2025, which needed only acceptance of a new agreement, not new documents.
For how Gemini’s checks compare with other exchanges, see our guide to crypto exchange KYC.
What if Gemini is restricted where you live?
You will probably find another platform: of the 21 others we track, 15 are available in the United Arab Emirates, 11 in Australia, 10 in Germany and India and 8 in France, but only 3 in Canada, one of them a centralised exchange.
A VPN is no route around it. Gemini’s agreement lets it suspend an account accessed from a country it does not serve, verification asks for an ID from your country of residence, and in our test the sign-up page refused visitors from every market Gemini left. What is left is a platform that is allowed to serve you where you live.
The chart covers the markets Gemini left and the restricted countries that still send it the most visitors. The UK has four available platforms, two of them centralised exchanges, while Canada has three and Japan six, but only one centralised exchange each. Each country page lists every platform we track there with its status and sources; start from our country index.
