Lark Davis|Jul 23, 2026 07:26
$425,000,000,000.
That's what crypto traders on Hyperliquid think a Chinese chip company is worth right now, days before its actual IPO.
That valuation would make it bigger than ICBC, China's largest bank and biggest listed company on the mainland.
The real IPO price? Just $85 billion.
The catch: almost nobody outside China can buy the actual shares. So traders are bidding up a synthetic contract just to get some kind of exposure. This isn't valuing the company. It's valuing access nobody has.
CXMT makes memory chips for the AI boom, a real story hiding under the hype.
Next week, real shares start trading. The gap closes. Some people win big. Others don't.(Lark Davis)
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