By Echo Wang

(Reuters) -Gemini Space Station, the cryptocurrency exchange founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, has secured Nasdaq as a strategic investor as it moves forward with plans for a New York listing this week, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Gemini, which could raise as much as $317 million in the initial public offering, has already lined up Nasdaq to buy $50 million in shares in a private placement at the time of the IPO, the people said, asking not to be identified because the agreement is not yet public.

The investment is part of a partnership that will give Nasdaq’s clients access to Gemini’s custody and staking services, the people said. Gemini’s institutional clients will also have access to Nasdaq’s Calypso platform to manage and track trading coll

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