{"id":208684,"date":"2026-05-04T23:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T03:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/ais-hottest-private-companies-have-booming-crypto-shadow-market\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T00:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T04:15:10","slug":"ais-hottest-private-companies-have-booming-crypto-shadow-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/ais-hottest-private-companies-have-booming-crypto-shadow-market\/","title":{"rendered":"AI\u2019s hottest private companies have booming crypto shadow market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/business\/2026\/05\/05\/markets\/ai-companies-crypto-shadow-market\/\">AI\u2019s hottest private companies have booming crypto shadow market<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/business\/2026\/05\/05\/markets\/ai-companies-crypto-shadow-market\/\">https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/business\/2026\/05\/05\/markets\/ai-companies-crypto-shadow-market\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-04 23:40:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.japantimes.co.jp\">www.japantimes.co.jp<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The artificial intelligence boom has attracted retail investors through various financial instruments such as closed-end funds, interval funds, and special-purpose vehicles (SPVs).<\/li>\n<li>Crypto platforms are now offering trading opportunities tied to the most valuable private AI companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX.<\/li>\n<li>This development marks a new financialization frontier in private markets, leveraging crypto infrastructure to provide real-time trading of these otherwise inaccessible private assets.<\/li>\n<li>Crypto trading venues such as Ventuals and PreStocks have experienced a substantial increase in trading activity, with open interest and market value climbing more than threefold since the beginning of the year.<\/li>\n<li>Major crypto exchanges are beginning to list pre-IPO assets, expanding the availability of these instruments to a broad user base.<\/li>\n<li>Platforms like Trade.xyz on the Hyperliquid blockchain are also participating in offering crypto derivatives trading tied to private AI companies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI\u2019s hottest private companies have booming crypto shadow market https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/business\/2026\/05\/05\/markets\/ai-companies-crypto-shadow-market\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-04 23:40:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/japantimes\/uploads\/images\/2026\/05\/05\/538743.jpg?v=3.1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-208684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208686,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208684\/revisions\/208686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}