1 July 2025

HOT ROCKS INVESTMENTS PLC

(the \"Company\")

Investment in Cel AI plc ordinary shares

Corporate Update

Cel AI plc

The Directors of the Company are pleased to announce that the Company has agreed to subscribe for £100,000 of new ordinary shares in the conditional £10,000,000 financing for Cel AI plc (“CLAI”) as announced on 30 June 2025. The new ordinary shares are due to be issued at 0.2p per share with net proceeds to be utilised to fund ongoing company operations and acquisition of bitcoin.

Corporate Update

Further to the Company’s announcement of 29 May 2025 regarding its proposed plans to invest in digital assets including bitcoin, the Company has resolved that it shall gain such exposure to the fast-moving sector via investments into companies operating in that space. At present it is not intended that the Company will acquire bitcoin directly though this will be kept under review in light of regulatory developments and potential future changes.

Upon completion of the above-mentioned financing the company will hold equity and / or warrant positions in the following entities:

Cel AI plc

D3 Energy

Electrum Discovery Corp

Elephant Oil Corp

Endor Group Limited t/a Universe Payments

Laiva Gold Inc

Mafula Energy Limited

Mendell Helium plc

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

Supernova Digital Assets plc

Supernova Metals Corp

Tap Global Group plc

The Smarter Web Company Plc

Trigon Metals Inc

Tucano Gold Inc

Unicorn Mineral Resources plc

WeShop Holdings Limited

The Directors continue to look at opportunities to diversify and add value for shareholders.

For further details please contact:

Hot Rocks Investments plc

Gavin Burnell Tel: 0207 2644 546

Optiva Securities Limited

Vishal Balasingham Tel: 0203 981 4174