Claims that traders are placing large bets on a "pop" for Anthropic's initial public offering are circulating, but key details in the account could not be verified and should be treated with caution.

The report described pre-IPO perpetual futures—contracts meant to track private company prices—trading on decentralized exchanges. It said one contract implied a price well above a purported IPO range and a trillion-dollar-plus valuation. No named sources, dates or filings were provided for those figures.

The same account said trading volume figures and a percentage move in a contract tracking a competitor were reported by an exchange. It also described a pullback in a publicly traded treasury company tied to the exchange's token.

Because the claims rest on unverified instruments and unsourced numbers, they should not be presented as established fact.

Source: CNBC