According to Bloomberg, retail investors have poured approximately $1.13 billion into leveraged trading on private AI company derivatives since the start of 2026. Crypto platforms Ventuals and PreStocks enable 24-hour trading on firms including Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX without granting direct equity ownership. Ventuals offers perpetual futures with no asset backing, while PreStocks tokenizes positions linked to special purpose vehicles tied to secondary shares. Trading volume on the two platforms has more than tripled this year.
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