We are nearing the end of 2025, and looking at the big winners and losers of the year, one launchpad stood out as the top growth engine for projects looking to establish themselves. Gems Launchpad has emerged as a prominent leader among token launch platforms, claiming the top spot on CryptoRank for 2025 with an impressive average ROI of 13.47x across its projects. This ascent culminates in a landmark narrative: taking projects “from launchpad to Nasdaq,” exemplified by the meteoric rise of Rain Protocol ($RAIN), which debuted on Gems earlier this year and recently secured institutional backing from a Wall Street heavyweight.
Gems solidified its position as the top-performing launchpad of 2025, climbing to #1 on CryptoRank and securing the #2 all-time highest ROI for the year with an average 13.47× return across its launches.
The standout milestone was the November 24 announcement that Nasdaq-listed Enlivex Therapeutics ($ENLV) raised $212 million specifically to acquire $RAIN tokens for its corporate treasury, a token that debuted on Gems Launchpad only months earlier. This move marked one of the first direct bridges between a Gems-launched project and Wall Street institutional adoption, sending $RAIN to new all-time highs and delivering massive gains to early participants. Adding gravitas, former Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi joined the initiative, endorsing RAIN’s vision for prediction markets. As Gems noted in an X post, this validates their focus on high-potential projects that attract serious institutional interest.
Gems’ track record speaks volumes. If an investor had allocated $1,000 to each project launched on the platform since its inception, that portfolio would now be worth $60,000. The platform’s success extends beyond Rain, with two new projects launched recently, and a couple more in the pipeline:
- Chainers: Chainers is an ambitious Web3 gaming universe that’s already making waves in the blockchain space, blending multi-genre gameplay with seamless onboarding to attract both crypto natives and traditional gamers. Chainers is live now, with over 600,000 players, 1 million daily transactions.
- Screx: Currently in its active funding round, Screx unifies DeFi tools across blockchains, simplifying asset management in a fragmented ecosystem.
- Tiga: Merging meme culture with the $100 billion iGaming sector, Tiga redirects casino profits into token rewards and staking, backed by a 1 million-strong Telegram community.
- XProtocol: An EVM-compatible blockchain supported by investors like Saison Capital and Razer, featuring XForge, the first node-operated smartphone for seamless DePIN participation and passive rewards.
Gems Trade, the platform’s spot trading arm, aggressively expanded its offering by adding 16 major USDT perpetual pairs in rapid succession, including $ZK, $ATOM, $ENA, $INJ, $ICP, $APT, $FET, $AR, and $BCH, among others. These listings provide deeper liquidity and trading options for the same communities that benefited from Gems’ launchpad successes, creating a seamless flywheel from fair-launch discovery to high-volume trading.
The period also saw the rollout of the upcoming “Baskets” feature on Gems Trade and hints of a new specialized trading account, signaling continued product expansion. Combined with the Enlivex treasury deal, these developments reinforce Gems’ trajectory from underground launchpad to the most profitable and institutionally recognized platform of the cycle.
From its roots as an underground facilitator to a powerhouse with $210 million raised, 100,000 community members around the web, and 4,300 affiliates, Gems is redefining the launchpad model by prioritizing real builders over hype. As 2025 winds down, Gems stands as proof that strategic curation and community focus can turn early-stage bets into Wall Street triumphs.
Source: https://www.cryptopolitan.com/gems-launchpad-soars-to-1-in-2025-bridging-crypto-projects-from-fair-launches-to-nasdaq-glory/
