OKX to Offer Perpetual Futures Tied to OpenAI, SpaceX and Anthropic

OKX plans to launch perpetual futures tied to OpenAI, SpaceX and Anthropic. The exchange announced its plans in a blog post on May 6, 2026. The contracts will provide synthetic price exposure to these private companies ahead of anticipated public listings while conferring neither actual equity ownership nor shareholder rights.

The announcement intensifies competition among crypto platforms to bring pre-IPO speculation on-chain. Bitget entered the sector in April with “IPO Prime,” listing a Solana-based SpaceX-linked token issued through investment platform Republic.

Injective described its pre-IPO perpetual futures as a way to bring the $13 trillion private equity market directly on-chain. Robinhood offered OpenAI-linked tokens backed by a special purpose vehicle that held equity purchased on the secondary market last year. Robinhood’s OpenAI-linked tokens did not represent direct equity ownership.

OpenAI publicly distanced itself from Robinhood’s OpenAI-linked tokens last year. OpenAI warned that any transfer of actual company equity would require its approval. The developments reflect how crypto exchanges are expanding beyond bitcoin and ether into equities and real-world asset markets.

63. 78 percent. CoinDesk reported that the products mirror a broader push by crypto platforms like Bitget and Injective to bring pre-IPO and private equity-style speculation on-chain without conferring actual shareholder rights.

The trend echoes earlier experiments like Robinhood’s OpenAI-linked tokens that drew public distancing from the company.