In today's Crypto news, Gemini has been busy. In the span of a few posts, the exchange rolled out three separate changes, two tied to its prediction markets and one built for privacy-minded crypto users.
Gemini Trust Company confirmed all of it through its official X account, and together the updates say a lot about where the platform is headed.
Sports Markets Just Got Easier To Search
The first piece of Gemini news is a big one for developers.
The exchange has shipped a standardized sports market object, and it brings structured JSON metadata across more than 10 sports, think NFL, MLB, Soccer, NBA, Tennis, Golf, MMA, Hockey, Cricket, and Motorsports.
That object breaks each market down into five fields:
| Field | What It Shows |
| Sport | The sport itself |
| Type | moneyline, spread, total, prop, or futures |
| Subject | Team, player, or contest |
| Scope | 1st half, 1st 5 innings, full contest |
| Metric | Points, passing yards, strikeouts, and more |
Why does this matter? Because it lets traders and developers query events directly through the API instead of guessing from a title. Composable filters on
GET /v1/prediction-markets/events
do the heavy lifting here.
A query like this
sports_market_type=prop&sports_market_metric=passing_yards
pulls exact matches, with no manual sorting needed. That's programmatic market discovery in action, and it's a clean upgrade for anyone building tools on top of the platform.
Source: Tyler Winklevoss announced on X.
Next up: a public endpoint for prediction market volume data. Anyone, with no login and no API key, can now check trade volume for a completed UTC day or hour.
A few things worth knowing:
Daily data comes from GET /v1/prediction-markets/volume/{date}
Add /hourly to break it down hour by hour, still in UTC
Volume is grouped by category, like Sports or soccer.
The current, still-running day isn't available until it wraps up
This gives outsiders a real look at trading activity without needing raw trade logs. It's the kind of transparency that used to stay internal.
Source: Tyler Winklevoss shared the new public prediction market volume endpoint on X, with additional technical details available in the Gemini REST API documentation.
Then there's the privacy angle. Gemini now supports shielded transactions to a new Zcash pool called Ironwood. Users can send ZEC straight from their Gemini account to a zodl app Ironwood deposit address, no extra hops required.
It's a small feature on paper, but it reflects a bigger appetite for privacy in crypto right now. Gemini gave credit to team member Vincent Palmerio for leading the rollout.
Source: Tyler on X (Zcash Update)
Two of these updates open things up for developers. One quietly protects privacy for users who want it. Different goals, sure, but they land at the same time, and that's nothing.
For anyone following Crypto news today, most of these updates are aimed at developers and advanced traders rather than casual users.
The sportsMarket object and the volume endpoint live in the API layer, not the app's front end, at least not yet. Whether that changes soon is anyone's guess.
Disclaimer: This article is for educational and informational purposes only and should not be considered financial or investment advice. Always conduct your own research before making investment decisions.
