Unchained
Unchained
Laura Shin
Why Pre-IPO Perps Like SpaceX on Hyperliquid Are Seeing an Upswing
33 minutes Posted May 21, 2026 at 6:31 pm.
Why are we seeing so much pre-IPO activity bubble up right now
The types of market activity that are happening pre-IPO and why they’re happening
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The kinds of problems that buyers and sellers of pre-IPO shares are trying to solve by going onchain
How unicorns have wanted to be private but have their shares
Why people aren’t just waiting till pre-IPO share perps go live to get exposure
The problems can arise in secondand third-layer SPV situations
Where the Robinhood tokenized-share model fits in all this
Where the FTX bankruptcy Anthropic block falls
The spectrum of players — from offchain to onchain, from shadier to more legitimate
Why more of this activity is happening on Solana than Ethereum
What Patagon does in the secondaries market
How Dio expects the onchain private market space to evolve
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Pre-IPO trading is hot ahead of three big IPOs. Perp volume on Hyperliquid went from $3M to $44M in three months, and SpaceX perps is just the beginning, says Dio Casares of Patagon.
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Pre-IPO perp volume on Hyperliquid grew from $3 million to $44 million in roughly three months.
Anthropic and OpenAI voided secondary shares, sending shockwaves through the pre-IPO marketes. Robinhood launched trust-style tokenized offerings into a gray area. And three trillion-dollar IPOs — SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI — are converging in the same window.
Dio Casares, founder and CEO of Patagon, a private neobank that has facilitated deals in Anthropic, xAI, Circle, and Kraken, explains the structural difference between derivatives and tokenized spot, why second and third-layer SPV waterfalls are legal hot potato, who actually holds the cleanest title, and where the competition for private market liquidity goes next.
Host:
⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Laura Shin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, Host / Unchained
Guests:
⁠Dio Casares - Founder & CEO, Patagon
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