Binance Contract Implies $2.1 Trillion Value for Anthropic

A recent Binance perpetual contract for Anthropic traded above $2,100 on September 9, reaching an implied value exceeding $2.1 trillion based on Binance's estimated one-billion-share denominator.

The contract mark was at $2,168.26 as of 14:45 UTC, with $26.1 million in open interest and $24.76 million in 24-hour volume, according to a DefiLlama snapshot. A later ByKaranteli snapshot put the mark at $2,122.74, recorded open interest up 6.1% over 24 hours, and counted about $243,000 in liquidations.

Binance's contract announcement specifies an estimated one billion shares, but warns that the actual total may differ and that Binance does not endorse the resulting implied value. Traders are willing to take risk at prices that imply a substantial premium to Anthropic's May financing when the Binance denominator is applied.