INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
US crypto-linked stocks rose alongside Bitcoin to close the Monday trading day at a gain as more publicly traded firms added the asset to
extending gains after-hours
Nasdaq newcomer and stablecoin issuer Circle Internet Group (CRCL) shares jumped 7% on the day, with a further 2.2% rise after-hours to
Crypto miner Core Scientific Inc
(CORZ) closed up 4.27% with a 0.87% bump after the bell while rivals CleanSpark Inc
(CLSK) and MARA Holdings Inc
(MARA) bothclimbed over 3% and jumped another 1% after-hours
(RIOT) gained 2.74% with a 1.2% after-hours bump.The gains come as Bitcoin (BTC) climbed 4% over the last day to $110,150, heading back
toward its May 22 peak of $112,000 as market jitters mostly subsided amid the US and China holding trade talks in the UK.Bitcoin broke
Source: Cointelegraph Markets ProMeanwhile, the Bitcoin-buying giant MicroStrategy Inc
(MSTR) gained 4.71% before bumping more than 1% to $396.61.Robinhood sinks after missing out on the S&P 500Crypto and stock trading platform
membership on Friday.The market was speculating that Robinhood would be added to the group, which tracks the 500 largest public companies in
the US and is typically a share price boon for those included, but S&P Dow Jones made no changes to the index as part of its quarterly
rebalancing.Robinhood saw a slight after-hours gain of just under 0.8% on Monday
Source: Google FinanceIn comparison, rival trading platform eToro Group Ltd
(ETOR), which went public less than a month ago, surged over 10.5% and continued to rise 2.4% after hours to $77.79, while crypto exchange
(BMNR), which said on Monday that it bought 100 BTC for the first time to hold in reserve after a Wednesday share offering that targeted an
$18 million raise.Source: Bitmine Immersion Technologies, Inc.Some companies that announced Bitcoin-buying plans have seen their share
prices jump, but BitMine closed Monday trading down nearly 8.7%, which slightly rebounded by 5.2% after hours to $7.25.Meanwhile, shares in
energy-management firm KULR Technology Group, Inc
(KULR) rose 4.2% after it said on Monday that it bought another $13 million worth of Bitcoin, bringing its total holdings to 920 Bitcoin at
