Morning Minute: What Anthropic’s $1.4 Trillion IPO Means for Crypto

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Hint: if it plays out similarly to the SpaceX IPO, it means the Bitcoin bottom is very close.

Several key new details for Anthropic’s pending IPO were released on Tuesday. The IPO price range was set at $70 to $78 a share, selling 825 million Class A shares to raise about $64.4 billion (at the top of the range). Pricing is expected November 18, with trading starting November 19 on Nasdaq under ANT. Roughly 20% of the deal is set aside for retail, which is about double what a book this size usually gives individual investors.

Notably on Hyperliquid, ANT is trading at $1.8T with $100M in daily trading volume and $200M in open interest (a big enough market to provide some signal). So perhaps traders are a bit more bullish on ANT price action than Wall Street.

Alongside the IPO sits a $26 billion private placement of non-voting Class N stock, bought at the IPO price by seven of Anthropic’s own compute suppliers. Google and Nvidia take about $10 billion each, AMD $2.5 billion, Broadcom, Micron and Microsoft about $1 billion apiece, TSMC $500 million. Those shares carry no lock-up. Combined with the IPO, Anthropic walks away with roughly $84.6 billion for general corporate purposes, mostly compute.

Regarding financials, Anthropic just reported revenue of $33.2 billion through nine months against $2.5 billion a year earlier and a $1.26 billion operating loss. It reported a $104 billion net loss, almost all of it a non-cash charge on convertible notes. And $900.9 billion in committed spending, with $70.7 billion due inside twelve months.

The liquidity drain thesis has been circulating since April, when CoinDesk laid out the case that mega-IPOs pull speculative money from the same pool that funds crypto. Retail allocations are the mechanism. A dollar earmarked for an IPO ticket is a dollar not in Bitcoin or memecoins.

We already ran this experiment. SpaceX listed June 12 at more than $2 trillion. Bitcoin fell 29% going into it, bottomed at $58,500 on June 30, and then rose 37% off that low.

So the question is not whether an IPO pulls money out.

Two things make this deal…

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