Hot Rocks Investments PLC

Share Issue/Capital Change • Jun 19, 2025

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Hot Rocks Investments plc (HRIP)

Hot Rocks Investments plc: Acquisition of additional The Smarter Web Company warrants

19-Jun-2025 / 07:00 GMT/BST

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19 June 2025

HOT ROCKS INVESTMENTS PLC

(the "Company")

Acquisition of additional The Smarter Web Company Plc warrants

The Smarter Web Company Plc

The Directors of the Company are pleased to announce that Hot Rocks Investments plc has agreed to acquire 100,000 warrants over new ordinary shares of The Smarter Web Company plc (“SWC”) for £1 per warrant.  These give the right, subsequent to 12 months of admission of SWC to trading on AQUIS and for a further 2 years, to subscribe for new ordinary shares in the Smarter Web Company at 2.5p per warrant. The purchase is being made from Company treasury resources.

This company is an AQUIS-traded UK-based web design agency – with a “10 year plan” incorporating a digital assets treasury policy including bitcoin to support exciting longer term business value. SWC trades under the ticker SWC on Aquis and under the ticker TSWCF on the OTCQB Venture Market in the United States.

Hot Rocks Investments plc now has an interest in 160,000 SWC warrants.

SWC announced a raise of £29.3million on 16 June 2025.

The company holds equity and / or warrant positions in the following entities:

D3 Energy

Electrum Discovery Corp

Elephant Oil Corp

Endor Group Limited t/a Universe Payments

Laiva Gold Inc

Mafula Energy Limited

Minergy Limited

Mosi Copper Limited

New Horizon Oil & Gas Limited

Orcadian Energy Plc

Oscillate plc

Phoenix Digital Assets plc

Pilar Gold Inc

Rift Resources Limited

Royal Road Minerals Limited

Supernova Digital Assets plc

Supernova Metals Corp

The Smarter Web Company Plc

Trigon Metals Inc

Tucano Gold Inc

Unicorn Mineral Resources plc

WeShop Holdings Limited

Wishbone Gold Plc

The Directors continue to look at opportunities to diversify and add value for shareholders and are currently reviewing potential investments in a range of companies including copper and gold explorers, onshore and offshore oil explorers and web-based businesses.

For further details please contact:

Hot Rocks Investments plc

Gavin Burnell Tel: 0207 2644 546

Optiva Securities Limited

Vishal Balasingham Tel: 0203 981 4174

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ISIN:	GB00B1WV3198
Category Code:	MSCH
TIDM:	HRIP
LEI Code:	213800JNSRPMZVREEO51
Sequence No.:	393195
EQS News ID:	2157414

End of Announcement	EQS News Service

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