Gemini, the cryptocurrency exchange founded by Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, has launched what it describes as the first agentic trading tool available directly through a regulated US-based exchange, allowing users to connect AI models to their trading accounts to monitor markets, place orders and manage risk autonomously.
The feature, called Agentic Trading, uses the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard for connecting AI systems to external tools, to let users link models, including Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's ChatGPT to their Gemini accounts.
Once connected, an AI agent can autonomously execute trades based on predefined strategies, monitor positions and respond to market conditions without requiring manual intervention on each decision.
"We believe we're at the beginning of a fundamental shift in how people interact with financial markets," Gemini said.
The platform includes a set of pre-built modular functions called Trading Skills that agents can call during execution.
These include Find the Spread, which queries the bid-ask spread for any trading pair, and Retrieve Candles, which accesses historical price data for pattern recognition and backtesting.
Gemini said it plans to introduce additional functions over time.
The launch comes as several crypto platforms explore ways to integrate AI agents into trading infrastructure.
Coinbase has incubated the x402 protocol, an open payments standard now managed by the Linux Foundation that gives AI bots access to crypto wallets and developer tools, while Tempo is developing the Machine Payments Protocol for machine-to-machine transactions.
Both use MCP but are not specifically focused on exchange-level trade execution.
Gemini went public late last year, but its shares have struggled, trading at $4.45 at the time of the announcement, well below their $28 debut price in September.
The exchange recently lost its chief financial officer, chief operating officer and chief legal officer amid rising corporate expenses.
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In March, the Winklevoss twins transferred $130 million in bitcoin to Gemini hot wallets.
The agentic trading rollout represents a bet that AI-driven execution will become a meaningful differentiator as exchanges compete for volume and active users in an increasingly crowded market.
The recap
- Gemini launches agentic trading feature for artificial intelligence agents
- Feature extends Gemini's automated trading tools to AI participants
- Announcement provided no rollout timeline or technical implementation details
