Anthropic pre-IPO futures open interest hits $79.27M
- —Open interest in Anthropic futures reached $79.27 million, close to the record $80 million
- —The ANTHROPIC contract trades around $2,147, with over $20 million traded in 24 hours
- —Binance accounts for about 40% of trading activity in the instrument
- —Combined OI in Anthropic and OpenAI pre-IPO perpetuals exceeded $160 million
Why it matters: Crypto markets are pricing Anthropic before its official IPO, creating a speculative benchmark for a valuation of up to $2 trillion.
Source: CryptoSlate