The numbers speak first: a $108 million loss, followed by a share price drop. The first thing Gemini's earnings report puts on the table isn't good news.

But buried in the same report is another number heading in the opposite direction—Gemini's prediction market trading volume nearly doubled. The exchange has spent recent years pushing beyond crypto trading into new business lines, and prediction markets are one piece of that push. Right now, it looks like one of the few areas actually growing.

Tyler Winklevoss's response to the loss was blunt: "We still have work to do." No defense of the numbers, no spinning the prediction market growth into a turnaround narrative—just an admission.

The loss and the growth showing up in the same report is the story here—shares getting voted down with investors' feet on one side, a new business line proving it still has room to run on the other. As for what exactly that "work" looks like, Gemini hasn't offered further details.