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Base Promotes Tokenized Anthropic Shares as Trade.xyz Lists Leveraged Pre-IPO Contract

Trade.xyz opened an ANT contract offering up to 10x leverage without equity ownership, while promotional material from Base named no issuer or token contract.

Editorial oversight: Julian Mercer, Chief Editor
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At a glance

What happened
Base promoted tokenized Anthropic shares while Trade.xyz introduced an ANT contract offering up to 10x leverage without equity ownership on Oct. 26.
Why it matters
The promoted contracts offer leveraged price exposure to Anthropic without providing equity ownership, an issuer, or a token contract.
Who is affected
Users of Base and traders on Trade.xyz seeking exposure to Anthropic.
What's next
No next step announced.
Primary source
thedefiant.io: Base Promotes 'Tokenized Anthropic Shares' as Trade.xyz Opens Pre-IPO Bets

Key points

  • Trade.xyz launched an ANT contract offering pre-IPO exposure to Anthropic with up to 10x leverage 1.
  • The ANT contract does not confer equity ownership in Anthropic 1.
  • Base's promotion for tokenized Anthropic shares omitted both an issuer and a token contract 1.

Base promoted what it described as tokenized Anthropic shares as Trade.xyz launched pre-IPO trading contracts tied to the firm on Oct. 26 1. Trade.xyz's newly launched ANT contract provides traders with up to 10x leverage 1. However, the derivative does not confer actual equity ownership in Anthropic 1.

At the same time, promotional material published by Base did not identify an issuer or specify an underlying token contract for the marketed assets 1. The structure mirrors existing synthetic market designs where platforms provide directional price exposure to private companies rather than direct corporate equity, similar to trends seen across other decentralized trading venues such as OpenStocks' BNB Chain offerings 1.

Equity Exposure Questions

The promotional push highlights an ongoing expansion of synthetic equities across crypto protocols, even as platforms like Coinbase record around $20 million weekly in tokenized stock activity. Trade.xyz's instrument functions purely as a leveraged synthetic derivative rather than a claim on private shares 1. Neither an issuer nor a specific token contract address was disclosed in the Base promotion 1.

Sources

  1. [1] Base Promotes 'Tokenized Anthropic Shares' as Trade.xyz Opens Pre-IPO Bets — thedefiant.io, October 26, 2026

Written by Basis Desk's newsroom system from the primary sources above and machine-verified against them before publication. Market figures marked "at the time of writing" come from live exchange data. Report an error: corrections@basisdesk.news · corrections policy.

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