Benzinga - Shares of several crypto-related stocks including Coinbase Global Inc (NASDAQ: COIN), Marathon Digital Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: MARA) and Riot Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: RIOT) are trading lower Monday amid a decline in the overall cryptocurrency market, led by Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC).
What To Know: Bitcoin was down 3.89% at $27,842 at the time of writing. Several other cryptocurrencies including Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) and Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) were down more than 3%.
The weakness in the broader crypto space comes after Binance paused Bitcoin withdrawals on its platform due to a large volume of pending transactions. On Sunday, more than 465,000 Bitcoin transactions were waiting to be processed, per mempool.space. At the time of writing, withdrawals on Binance had resumed.
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Coinbase is a provider of end-to-end financial infrastructure and technology for the crypto economy. The stock was down 4.19% at $55.80 at last check. It was trading even lower in early trading, but bounced after Daiwa Capital analyst Steven Nie upgraded Coinbase from Hold to Buy and raised the price target from $58 to $65.
Marathon Digital is engaged in mining digital assets. The stock was down 9.1% at last check. Riot Blockchain is focused on building, supporting and operating blockchain technologies. Shares were down 10.3% Monday morning.
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