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New Gemini user agreement:can seize/freeze your assets for being “suspicious”. Don’t use your account for 2 years,freeze or lock your funds,any remaining funds in your account, unclaimed property abandoned property,We reserve the right to deduct fee from such “unclaimed” funds. etc…lots of sketchy

You agree and understand that we have the right to immediately (i) suspend your account and all accounts beneficially owned by you and any members of your household or for which you are a representative or authorized signatory and, in the case of entities, any affiliates (each, a “Related Account”), (ii) freeze/lock the funds and assets in all such accounts, and (iii) suspend your access to Gemini, until a determination has been made, if we suspect, in our sole discretion, you and/or any such accounts to be in violation of:

Any provision of this User Agreement; Any Applicable Laws or Regulations; Our BSA/AML Program; or Our Marketplace Conduct Rules, at any time since the opening of such account or Related Account (each, a “Conduct Violation”).

You further agree and understand that we have the right to immediately (i) suspend your account and any Related Account, (ii) freeze/lock the funds and assets in all such accounts, and (iii) suspend your access to Gemini until a determination has been made, if:

We are required to do so by a regulatory authority, court order, facially valid subpoena, or binding order of a government authority; The account is, or is related to any account that is, subject to any pending litigation, investigation, or governmental proceeding; The account has a negative balance for any reason; The account has a balance that needs to be reconciled for any reason; Your ACH deposit was returned to your bank; We believe someone is attempting to gain unauthorized access to the account; We believe there is unusual activity in the account; We believe you are using Gemini, your login credentials, or other account information in an unauthorized or inappropriate manner; or The account has not been accessed in two years or more. If your account has been suspended, you will be notified when accessing Gemini. We may, in our sole discretion, give Written Notice that your account has been suspended and may, in our sole discretion, disclose the reasons for suspension, if permitted to do so by law.

Account Investigations You agree and understand that we have the right to immediately investigate your account and any Related Account, if we suspect, in our sole discretion, that you and/or any such account has committed a Conduct Violation.

You further agree and understand that we have the right to immediately investigate your account and any Related Account, if:

We are required to do so by a regulatory authority, court order, facially valid subpoena, or binding order of a government authority; The account is, or is related to any account that is, subject to any pending litigation, investigation, or governmental proceeding; The account has not been accessed in two years or more. We may, in our sole discretion, give Written Notice that your account is the subject of an investigation and may, in our sole discretion, share the general nature of the investigation, if permitted to do so by law.

If we suspect that an account has committed a Conduct Violation that pertains to our Marketplace Conduct Rules, we will give Written Notice and share the general nature of the allegations as well as the specific provisions of our Marketplace Conduct Rules that appear to have been violated. You will have the right to submit, within seven calendar days from the date of notification, a written statement to our Chief Compliance Officer (“CCO”) explaining why no disciplinary action should be taken.

You agree and understand that upon our request and within the time frame designated by us, you and any related party are obligated to respond to any interrogatories in writing and to furnish any documentary materials and other information in connection with any investigation initiated pursuant to this User Agreement. You agree and understand that neither you nor any related party shall impede or delay any investigation or proceeding conducted pursuant to this User Agreement, nor refuse to comply with any request made pursuant to this User Agreement.

Following the conclusion of an investigation, our CCO will make, in his or her sole discretion, a determination based upon the weight of the evidence. If a suspected Conduct Violation pertains to our Marketplace Conduct Rules, our CCO may consider a variety of factors in assessing whether your conduct violated our Marketplace Conduct Rules, including, but not limited to:

Whether your intent was to induce others to trade when they otherwise would not have; Whether your intent was to affect a price rather than to change your position; Whether your intent was to create misleading market conditions; Market conditions in the impacted market(s) and related markets; The effect on other market participants; Your historical pattern of activity; Your order entry and cancellation activity; The size of your order(s) relative to market conditions at the time your order(s) was placed; The size of your order(s) relative to your position and/or capitalization; The number of orders; Your ability to manage the risk associated with your order(s) if fully executed; The duration for which your order(s) was exposed to the market; The duration between, and frequency of, non-actionable messages; The queue position or priority of your order in the order book; The prices of preceding and succeeding bids, offers, and trades; The change in the best offer price, best bid price, last sale price, or other price that results from the entry of your order; and Your activity in related markets, including, but not limited to, the Cboe Exchange, Inc. (“Cboe”), Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc. (“BZX”), and the Cboe Futures Exchange, LLC (“CFE”). You agree and understand that if your account or any Related Account is determined, in our sole discretion, to be have committed a Conduct Violation, we have the right to terminate any such accounts and take any and all necessary and appropriate actions pursuant to this User Agreement and/or Applicable Laws and Regulations.

Account Remedies for Breach You agree and understand that if you, your account, or any Related Account is determined, in our sole discretion, to have committed a Conduct Violation, we have the right to debit from your account or any Related Account (i) the value of any trading fee discounts or rebates that you or the holder of a Related Account has received in connection with this User Agreement at any time after one year preceding the date on which we become aware of the existence of the Conduct Violation and (ii) any other damages suffered by us as a result of the Conduct Violation. You further agree and understand that if we determine, in our sole discretion, that you have colluded, coordinated, and/or collaborated with any other User to commit a Conduct Violation, you and that User will be jointly and severally liable for the whole value of any trading fee discounts, rebates, and/or damages to which we are entitled under this subsection and any such amounts may be debited, in our sole discretion, from your account, that User’s account, or in each case, any Related Account. We will deduct any such amounts from the respective Fiat Account(s) and/or Digital Asset Account(s). If withdrawing from a Digital Asset Account, we will withdraw sufficient Digital Assets as calculated using that day’s Gemini Auction® 4pm ET U.S. dollar denominated auction price or, if no such auction price is available, the Gemini trailing 24-hour U.S. dollar denominated VWAP as of 4pm ET (the “Prevailing Market Price”). In addition, you agree and understand that we may alternatively collect some or all of any such amounts by offsetting them against any amount owing to you from Gemini. If you disagree with any determination made or remedy exercised under this subsection, you may bring an arbitration action pursuant to the ‘Dispute Resolution’ section of this User Agreement.

Account Termination You agree and understand that we have the right to terminate your access to Gemini and any account at any time and for any reason, and that if we do so, your rights and obligations under this User Agreement will continue. You further agree and understand that we have the right to take any and all necessary and appropriate actions pursuant to this User Agreement and/or Applicable Laws and Regulations. If your account is terminated, we will return your funds, less the value of any trading fee discounts, rebates, and/or damages that we are entitled to pursuant to this User Agreement. If your account is no longer subject to an investigation, court order, or subpoena, you authorize us to return your funds (less any trading fee discounts, rebates, and/or damages to which we are entitled) to any bank account linked to your account, unless otherwise required by law. If there is a Digital Asset balance remaining in your account, you agree to provide us with a Digital Asset address within seven calendar days upon receiving Written Notice, so that we can return the remaining Digital Assets to you. If you fail to do so, you hereby agree that we are permitted to sell any remaining Digital Assets on the open market at a price within 5% of the Prevailing Market Price and return the proceeds (less any trading fee discounts, rebates, and/or damages to which we are entitled) to any bank account linked to your account.

Legal Process You agree and understand that we, as well as our affiliates, service providers, their respective officers, directors, agents, joint venturers, employees and representatives (collectively, the “Gemini Service Providers”), may comply with any writ of attachment, execution, garnishment, tax levy, restraining order, subpoena, warrant or other legal process, which any of us reasonably and in good faith believe to be valid. We and any Gemini Service Provider may, but are not required to, notify you of such process by electronic communication. We and any Gemini Service Provider may charge you for associated costs, in addition to any legal process fees. You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold all of us harmless from all actions, claims, liabilities, losses, costs, attorney’s fees, or damages associated with our compliance with any process that any of us reasonably believe in good faith to be valid. You further agree that we and any Gemini Service Provider may honor any legal process, regardless of the method or location of service.

Right of Offset You agree and understand that we have the right to offset: (i) negative balances in your Fiat Account by selling the necessary amount of Digital Assets in your Digital Asset Account on the open market at a price within 5% of the Prevailing Market Price to offset such negative balances; (ii) negative balances in your Digital Asset Account by buying the necessary amount of Digital Assets at the Prevailing Market Price to offset such negative balances with the fiat currency in your Fiat Account; and (iii) any and all debts owed to Gemini through the offset of balances of your account or any Related Account.

Unclaimed Funds If your account remains closed or dormant for a long enough period of time, we may be required, upon the passage of applicable time periods, to report any remaining funds in your account as unclaimed property in accordance with abandoned property and escheat laws. If this occurs, we will use reasonable efforts to give Written Notice. If you fail to respond to any such Written Notice within seven Business Days (as defined herein) or as otherwise required by law, we may be required to deliver any such funds to New York State as unclaimed property. We reserve the right to deduct an administrative fee resulting from such unclaimed funds, as permitted by Applicable Law and Regulations.

BSA/AML Compliance Our BSA/AML Program is guided by the BSA, specifically, the AML and Counter-Terrorist Financing (“CTF”) provisions, as mandated by U.S. federal law, the Patriot Act, and all other rules and regulations regarding AML and CTF. These standards are designed to prevent the use of Gemini for money laundering or terrorist financing activities. We take compliance very seriously and it is our policy to take all the necessary steps to prohibit fraudulent transactions, report suspicious activities, and actively engage in the prevention of money laundering and any related acts that facilitate money laundering, terrorist financing, or any other financial crimes.

Patriot Act Notification Please also note that Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT ACT requires all financial institutions to obtain, verify, and record information that identifies each person who opens an account. This federal requirement applies to all new users. This information is used to assist the United States government in the fight against the funding of terrorism and money-laundering activities.

What this means to you: when each person opens an account on Gemini, we will ask each person for his or her name, physical address, mailing address, date of birth, and other information that will allow us to identify him or her.

Background Checks In furtherance of our BSA/AML Program, we reserve the right to require you to provide us with additional information and/or require you to undergo a background check prior to being authorized to use Gemini, or at any point thereafter, in accordance with Applicable Laws and Regulations.

Source of Funds You agree, represent, and warrant that all funds in your account, or funds exchanged or to be exchanged by you in the future on Gemini, are not the direct or indirect proceeds of any criminal or fraudulent activity.

You are not allowed to receive funds in your account from a sender other than yourself. Any funds you receive from a sender other than yourself will be considered unauthorized. We reserve the right to investigate the source of any funds in your account and determine, in our sole discretion, how to handle their disposition. Following our review of any funds in question and the circumstances by which you received them, we may determine that you are not the owner of such funds. If such a determination is made, we reserve the right to dispose of these funds in accordance with Applicable Laws and Regulations and in our sole discretion, which may include, returning them to the destination of their origin or to a charity of our choosing.

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