Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has renewed his long-running push for Gemini to list ADA, replying to Tyler Winklevoss’s anniversary post with a two-word demand: “List ADA.” The message appeared beneath Winklevoss’s X post celebrating Gemini’s eleventh anniversary, extending a campaign that has spanned several years.
ADA remains absent from Gemini even though the exchange supports competing proof-of-stake cryptocurrencies including Solana, Avalanche, Polkadot, Cosmos, and Tezos. Gemini has not publicly explained the specific reasons for excluding Cardano, while its listing framework generally considers maturity, liquidity, market demand, utility, technical design, regulatory requirements, cybersecurity threats, legal concerns, illicit finance risks, and concentration of control.
Hoskinson has previously challenged the omission. In December 2022, he made comments linking exchanges that excluded ADA with financial trouble, referencing FTX’s collapse without ADA spot trading. In September 2024, he posed next to Gemini’s booth holding a sign asking “Wen ADA?” and tagged Gemini on X. During a 2025 Blockchain Daily interview, he estimated Gemini missed roughly $70 million in revenue over five years by not offering ADA trading, arguing that Binance and Coinbase earned fees from Cardano token transactions.
The anniversary reply repeats the listing demand, but Gemini has offered no public explanation specifically addressing ADA’s absence.
