1/ There may be a surprisingly large relative-value trade hiding in OpenAI’s pre-IPO markets.
Bitget’s $PREOPAI and Binance’s $OPENAI perpetual both reference OpenAI—but they currently imply very different valuations.
Here’s the setup 🧵
@hosseeb Even if they ultimately decide to do this, it'll be almost impossible to enforce. For open-source models, companies can just fine-tune them a little and claim they're the latest models developed in-house.
11/ The thesis:
OpenAI is being priced at roughly $867B on Bitget and $1.158T on Binance.
Long the cheaper normalized exposure and short the richer one—but treat it as a risky convergence trade, not guaranteed arbitrage.
Not financial advice.
#OpenAI#PreIPO#Arbitrage#RWA #binance #bitget
1/ There may be a surprisingly large relative-value trade hiding in OpenAI’s pre-IPO markets.
Bitget’s $PREOPAI and Binance’s $OPENAI perpetual both reference OpenAI—but they currently imply very different valuations.
Here’s the setup 🧵
10/ Main risks:
• OpenAI delays or cancels an IPO
• Binance changes its estimated share count or rebases the contract
• Bitget’s conversion ratio differs from the assumed mapping
• Basis widens before converging
• Liquidation, liquidity, exchange and counterparty risk