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Crypto

The listed companies whose revenue or balance sheet rides on crypto: exchanges and brokers that earn on trading volume, the issuer of a dollar stablecoin that earns interest on its reserves, companies that hold bitcoin or ether as their main asset, and the miners that sell newly mined bitcoin. Each moves with the crypto market, but each earns its money a different way: the theme page sets them side by side. Companion page of the QuantAbundance Crypto YouTube channel.

0.641avg corr (252d)
9stocks
Strong co-movement

Stocks · key Fib levels

  • Coinbase: the largest US-regulated crypto exchange; earns trading fees, custody fees and interest on USDC reserves shared with Circle.

    anchored by BlackRock (IBIT custody) · Fidelity (FBTC custody) · ARK Invest (ARKB custody) · Circle ($CRCL USDC JV) · undisclosed institutional Prime clients
    • ▸2024-01: Custodian for 8 of 11 SEC-approved spot BTC ETFs at launch (BlackRock IBIT, Fidelity FBTC, ARK ARKB, others)
    • ▸2024-07: Custodian for majority of spot ETH ETF launches
    • ▸2023-08: Base L2 mainnet launch - Ethereum L2 built on OP Stack
    • ▸Circle USDC JV: shares reserve interest income; restructured 2023 when Coinbase took equity stake in $CRCL
    • ▸BlackRock partnership (2022): Aladdin integration for institutional crypto access
    • ▸Coinbase Prime: institutional custody + trading platform, undisclosed asset base
    • ▸2025: S&P 500 inclusion (May 2025) - first crypto-native name added
  • Robinhood: retail broker for stocks, options and crypto; crypto trading is one of its largest transaction revenue lines.

    anchored by Retail self-directed traders (US) · Gold subscribers · RIAs via TradePMR custody
    • ▸2024-06: Announced acquisition of Bitstamp (~$200M) to extend crypto rails into EU/UK retail + institutional
    • ▸2024-10: Acquired TradePMR (~$300M cash+stock) to enter RIA custody and bridge advised-wealth flows
    • ▸2025: Launched Robinhood Banking (debit + savings sweep) + Robinhood Strategies (managed portfolios) for Gold subscribers
    • ▸2025-2026: Robinhood Legend (active-trader desktop) + prediction markets (event contracts via Kalshi partnership) expand product surface
    • ▸2026: WonderFi acquisition (~C$250M) adds Canadian regulated crypto exchange footprint
  • Circle: issuer of USDC, the second-largest dollar stablecoin; earns the interest on the Treasuries that back it.

    anchored by Coinbase ($COIN) · BlackRock ($BLK) · BNY Mellon ($BK) · Visa ($V) · Mastercard ($MA) · Standard Chartered · Deutsche Bank ($DB)
    • ▸**2025-06**: NYSE IPO at $31/sh, priced above $27-28 range; opened $69, ATH ~$298 in July 2025 squeeze
    • ▸**2025-07**: GENIUS Act signed into US law - federal regulatory framework for payment stablecoins, USDC compliant Day 1
    • ▸**2025-09**: Circle Payments Network (CPN) GA with Standard Chartered, Deutsche Bank, Société Générale as launch partners
    • ▸**2025-Q4**: USDC integrated into $V Visa Direct + $MA Mastercard Multi-Token Network as settlement asset
    • ▸**2026-Q1**: Tokenized USYC money-market fund crosses $2B AUM; EURC supply doubles YoY on MiCA tailwind
    • ▸**2026-Q2**: Reserve custody split: BlackRock-managed Circle Reserve Fund (USDXX) + BNY Mellon cash leg
  • Strategy (ex-MicroStrategy): the largest corporate holder of bitcoin, funded by stock and debt issuance; its value tracks its bitcoin per share.

    anchored by US Federal agencies (legacy BI) · Fortune 500 enterprises (analytics) · Self (BTC treasury is the core business)
    • ▸~500k+ BTC held on balance sheet (largest corporate holder globally, ~2.4% of total supply)
    • ▸Funded via ATM equity programs, convertible senior notes (multiple tranches through 2030+), and STRK/STRF preferred series
    • ▸2026 Q1: continued accumulation cadence via "21/21 Plan" framework ($21B equity + $21B fixed-income capital raise)
    • ▸MicroStrategy ONE BI platform, HyperIntelligence, Cloud analytics
    • ▸Customers include US federal agencies, F500 enterprises
    • ▸Declining license revenue, transitioning to cloud subscription
  • #5
    SBET
    $7.57last
    - fib

    SharpLink Gaming: a treasury company holding ether as its main asset and staking it.

    anchored by DraftKings · FanDuel · BetMGM · Caesars Sportsbook · Sports media publishers
    • ▸**DraftKings ($DKNG) affiliate partnership** - SharpLink operates as an affiliate marketing partner for DraftKings, driving player acquisition via odds widgets and betting links embedded in sports media sites.
    • ▸**FanDuel / Flutter ($FLUT) affiliate** - registered affiliate partner for FanDuel sportsbook; CPA and revenue-share arrangements across US and UK regulated markets.
    • ▸**BetMGM affiliate** - affiliate relationship with BetMGM ($MGM / $ENT joint venture) covering multiple US states.
    • ▸**Sports media publisher integrations** - odds and affiliate widgets deployed across regional sports media and content publisher networks; specific publisher names undisclosed.
    • ▸**European sportsbook affiliates** - legacy affiliate revenue from UK and European regulated markets predating US expansion focus.
  • #6
    GLXY
    $16.14last
    - fib

    Galaxy Digital: crypto trading, lending and asset management, plus a data-centre business.

    anchored by CoreWeave · Invesco · Institutional crypto counterparties
    • ▸**2024-06** - Helios campus 15-yr lease to $CRWV for ~133MW Phase I AI/HPC colocation (option to expand toward ~800MW campus capacity)
    • ▸**2025** - Invesco-Galaxy spot BTC ETP ($BTCO) and spot ETH ETP ($QETH) - Galaxy is sub-advisor / index provider
    • ▸**2026-Q1** - TSX→NASDAQ uplisting completed; ticker GLXY consolidated to single US listing
    • ▸**Ongoing** - Galaxy Asset Management runs structured products + venture funds; AUM disclosed quarterly
    • ▸**Ongoing** - Galaxy Lending desk provides BTC/ETH collateralized credit to institutions post-FTX/Genesis vacuum
  • MARA Holdings: one of the largest listed bitcoin miners; revenue moves with the bitcoin price and the network hashrate.

    anchored by Bitcoin Network (self-mining) · Applied Digital (hosting) · ERCOT (demand response)
    • ▸**2026 Q1**: 25 EH/s milestone reached; Texas + ND sites fully energized
    • ▸**2026**: Acquired 114 MW wind-curtailment site (Texas) for sub-3c/kWh power
    • ▸**2025**: Garden City, TX 280 MW site online; gas-flare pilot scaled to 25 MW
    • ▸**2025**: BTC treasury crossed 40k BTC via mined + open-market purchases
    • ▸**2024**: Rebranded Marathon Digital → MARA Holdings; signaled HPC/AI pivot
    • ▸**2024**: Halving event - block reward 6.25 → 3.125 BTC; difficulty +35% YoY
    • ▸**Hosting partners**: Applied Digital, Compute North (legacy), Hut 8 swaps
  • Riot Platforms: Texas bitcoin miner with its own power sites, also marketing capacity to data-centre tenants.

    anchored by ERCOT (power-credit counterparty) · Self-mined BTC (primary revenue) · Third-party hosted miners (Rockdale E&I services)
    • ▸**2026 Q1**: 36.7 EH/s deployed hash rate; ~579 BTC mined in March 2026 alone.
    • ▸**2025 FY**: $376M total revenue; $71M power/demand-response credits from ERCOT.
    • ▸**2025**: Corsicana Phase 1 (400 MW) fully energized; Phase 2 build underway toward 1 GW total site capacity.
    • ▸**2024**: Acquired Block Mining for ~$92M, adding Kentucky operations (~400 MW pipeline).
    • ▸**2024**: Signed E&I services contracts with third-party miners at Rockdale campus.
    • ▸**Strategic**: Actively marketing 600 MW+ of Corsicana capacity for AI/HPC tenant co-location; no anchor signed yet.
  • #9
    CLSK
    $8.40last
    - fib

    CleanSpark: US bitcoin miner growing its hashrate through owned sites in Georgia, Tennessee and Wyoming.

    anchored by Bitcoin network (self-mining) · Bitmain (ASIC supplier) · Georgia Power / TVA / regional utilities
    • ▸**2026-Q1**: ~50 EH/s installed hashrate milestone; ~10k BTC treasury reported
    • ▸**2026**: Wyoming site expansion (Cheyenne) brings additional ~100MW online
    • ▸**2025-H2**: Tennessee acquisitions add diversified grid exposure outside GA
    • ▸**2025**: Mississippi sites (Vicksburg) operational, ~150MW capacity
    • ▸**Ongoing**: S21/S21 Pro fleet upgrades - efficiency targeting sub-17 J/TH
    • ▸**Power**: Blended all-in power cost guided sub-$0.035/kWh, among lowest in listed-miner cohort

Co-movement matrix (252d)

CLSK
COIN
CRCL
GLXY
HOOD
MARA
MSTR
RIOT
SBET
CLSK·0.550.450.730.510.840.580.830.65
COIN0.55·0.750.630.780.620.810.490.81
CRCL0.450.75·0.500.600.480.650.440.69
GLXY0.730.630.50·0.530.730.630.700.71
HOOD0.510.780.600.53·0.520.670.480.67
MARA0.840.620.480.730.52·0.650.780.68
MSTR0.580.810.650.630.670.65·0.520.82
RIOT0.830.490.440.700.480.780.52·0.58
SBET0.650.810.690.710.670.680.820.58·

About themes

Themes are editorial groupings - narrative buckets used for technical screens. They exist alongside bubbles, which are validated empirically by capital-flow co-movement.

When a theme's avg correlation is high, the editorial story is also tradeable as a bloc. When it's low, the narrative groups stocks that don't actually move together - useful for thinking, less useful for trading.

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Frequently asked questions

What are the top stocks in the Crypto theme?
QuantAbundance's Crypto theme tracks 9 stocks ranked editorially: COIN, HOOD, CRCL, MSTR, SBET, GLXY, MARA, RIOT, CLSK.
Do Crypto stocks move together?
The Crypto theme has a 252-day average correlation of 0.64 across its members - strong co-movement. Editorial themes are narrative groupings, not capital-flow validated; tradability follows correlation, not the story.