Traders are already placing leveraged bets on Anthropic’s IPO using crypto contracts

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Trade.xyz’s new ANT contract fell about 20% in its first hour on Hyperliquid. There are no shares behind it, and U.S. traders are locked out. Anthropic’s IPO is still weeks away, but traders are already betting on it with borrowed money. Two contracts on Hyperliquid, a decentralized crypto exchange whose trades settle on a public blockchain, make that possible: Entropy’s ANTH and trade.xyz’s ANT . While Anthropic hasn’t commented publicly on the contracts, its help page says that anyone claiming to sell its shares to the public through “forward contracts,” tokenized securities, or other mechanisms is likely offering something worthless. The Entropy and trade.xyz contracts, which are perpetual swaps, don’t deliver shares or claim to represent them. Anthropic hasn’t said whether its comment extends to perpetual contracts, which are futures agreements that never expire. “Every other 24/7 tradfi market on Hyperliquid mirrors a price that already exists somewhere else BUT pre-IPO markets…

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