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Crypto stocks
Crypto stocks are shares of listed companies whose business depends on crypto, such as exchanges, miners, bitcoin treasury firms and infrastructure providers.
The group includes exchanges and brokers listed on stock markets, bitcoin miners, companies that hold bitcoin or other tokens as their main treasury asset, stablecoin issuers that went public and firms selling hardware, custody or payment services to the sector. Some large companies with only a crypto side business are also included in broader lists.
These shares let investors gain crypto exposure through a normal brokerage account, inside pension or tax-advantaged wrappers and with company financial statements to analyse. Crypto equity indices and thematic ETFs bundle them, and their earnings reports often move token prices too.
Correlation with bitcoin is high but imperfect: crypto stocks add business risk, debt, dilution, regulation and the general mood of equity markets. A treasury company can trade far from the value of its coins, and an exchange's revenue can collapse when trading volumes dry up even if prices hold.
Example
An investor who cannot hold tokens in his pension plan buys a crypto equity ETF that holds a listed exchange, three miners and two bitcoin treasury companies.
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