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To arrive at our forecast for Anthropic’s funding rate on Ventuals, we primarily analyzed the significant supply-demand imbalance in the private equity secondary markets. Our team observed a massive disparity between Anthropic’s recent primary valuation and the much higher prices being quoted on secondary platforms like Hiive and Forge. In a synthetic perpetual market, this suggests a persistent “long” bias, where traders seeking exposure to this premium will likely pay a funding fee to “shorts.”
We relied on historical data from similar high-demand assets on the Hyperliquid platform, which demonstrated that while funding rates can occasionally reach extreme levels during hype cycles, sustaining triple-digit annualization over an entire month is rare. Consequently, our thinking was anchored in three main scenarios: a core regime representing typical bullish crypto-perp funding, a higher-volatility scenario reflecting potential mania or short squeezes leading up to a rumored IPO, and a lower-activity scenario that accounts for potential market cooling or technical gaps where funding might hit the regulatory floor.
The key motivating factor was the “basis” divergence—the gap between the synthetic price and the benchmark. We also accounted for the specific resolution rules, such as how downtime or skipped intervals are treated as zero percent, which acted as a natural downward pull on our expected averages.
Forecast rationale (numeric):
— Iteration 1 — The shared reasoning points to a right-skewed funding-rate distribution with a central estimate in the high-20s annualized for June 2026.
The collective view is that Anthropic’s June 2026 Ventuals funding rate will most likely be moderately elevated rather than extreme, with a median-like outcome in the high 20s, some upside from positioning stress, and limited but meaningful probability of hitting the platform’s bounds.
— Iteration 2 — The forecasts converge on a high-teens to low-20s annualized funding rate as the most likely outcome for Anthropic on Ventuals in June 2026.
Overall, the forecasts argue that June 2026 funding should most likely land moderately above the low-deviation baseline, but not dramatically so, because sustained high-deviation periods are seen as limited and any positive sign bias is partly offset by cancellations and downtime.
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Question: What will be the average annualized funding rate for Anthropic on Ventuals in June 2026? Final Prediction: Probability distribution:
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The research examines the average annualized funding rate for Anthropic on Ventuals as of June 2026, focusing on the current market dynamics and valuation context. As of April 22, 2026, the perpetual swap for Anthropic (vntl:ANTHROPIC-USDH) shows a mark price of $1,058, with a significant mark-to-oracle premium of approximately 16%, indicating a strong long bias among traders. The current funding rate is +0.00739% per epoch, translating to an annualized rate of about 64.73% APR. The analysis highlights the mechanics of funding rates on Ventuals, including the hourly settlement frequency and the dampening multiplier that moderates extreme funding swings.
Key factors influencing the funding rate include Anthropic’s recent valuation increases, with a $30 billion Series G funding round in February 2026 and subsequent speculative valuations reaching up to $800 billion. The research identifies both supportive and opposing factors for the funding rate, such as ongoing hype in the AI sector and potential IPO announcements that could affect market sentiment. The overall assessment suggests that while the funding rate is likely to remain elevated due to strong demand and limited short interest, it is subject to significant fluctuations based on market developments and news events.
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As of April 22, 2026, the vntl:ANTHROPIC-USDH perpetual swap on Hyperliquid (via Ventuals) shows the following key metrics [5]:
The significant premium of mark price over oracle price indicates a strong long bias — traders are willing to pay substantially to maintain long exposure to Anthropic’s valuation. This drives a persistently high positive funding rate where longs pay shorts.
Key mechanics relevant to this question [1][12][14]:
The question’s annualization formula uses: Annualized Rate = (S / D) × 8,760, with D = 720 hours for June 2026. Resolution bounds are clamped to [5.0, 95.0].
Anthropic’s valuation trajectory is a crucial driver of funding rate dynamics [10]:
The massive gap between official valuation (~$380B from Feb 2026 round) and secondary market/speculative valuations ($600-800B) is likely what drives the persistent premium on the vANTHRPC perpetual — and thus the high funding rate. The oracle, which draws from secondary market benchmarks like Hiive or Forge [1], may lag behind the speculative enthusiasm reflected in the perp mark price.
No specific prediction market was found for the exact question of Ventuals/vANTHRPC funding rates in June 2026. Related prediction markets include:
Factors favoring a high funding rate (>50% annualized):
Factors favoring a lower funding rate (<50% annualized):
Factors favoring extreme outcomes (near cap/floor):
The current annualized funding rate of ~65% reflects a significant and persistent long premium driven by Anthropic’s rapidly escalating secondary market valuation far exceeding its last official round. Given the structural factors (strong AI narrative, limited short-side incentives at 3x max leverage, small market size), the rate is likely to remain elevated but could fluctuate substantially. The resolution range of [5.0, 95.0] appears well-calibrated, and the most probable outcome zone based on current data appears to be in the 40-80% range, with the current ~65% serving as the best available anchor. However, the small market size ($5.79M OI) and potential for binary Anthropic news events (IPO announcement, funding round, valuation reset) introduce significant tail risk in both directions.
Data limitation: Historical funding rate data for vANTHRPC over multiple months was not available in my searches, making it difficult to assess the stability/volatility of the rate over time. Accessing the Hyperliquid L1 API’s fundingHistory endpoint directly would provide the most useful historical context for this forecast.
Looking at the Round 2 critic’s feedback, I need to carefully weigh their additional points against my reasoning.
Valid Points I Accept:
Oracle Update Mechanism: This is a compelling point I may have underweighted. If the oracle is already incorporating secondary market data at $600B+, it should be updating upward, which would naturally compress the ~16% mark-to-oracle premium over time. This doesn’t require any dramatic news event - just normal oracle function.
Left Tail Probability: The critic correctly identifies that 10% probability below 32% may be insufficient given:
Points I Continue to Defend:
Structural Long Bias: The new search data showing Anthropic turned down $800B offers and ARR exploded from $9B to $30B in Q1 2026 validates the speculative enthusiasm driving long positions. This isn’t irrational exuberance - it’s backed by fundamentals.
No Imminent Valuation Reset: No funding round expected before Q3 2026 means the oracle has limited fresh primary market data to anchor to. Secondary market data alone may not fully close the gap.
Impaired Arbitrage: With no direct path to underlying shares and 3x max leverage, even “obvious” funding yield opportunities carry genuine risk. The ~65% rate isn’t necessarily unsustainable in this structure.
New Insight:
The critic’s “Oracle Catch-Up Scenario” at 25-40% is plausible but perhaps too aggressive. Even if the oracle updates, traders’ speculative enthusiasm about Anthropic (validated by the strong fundamentals) could maintain some premium. A more likely “normalized” range might be 40-55% rather than 25-40%.
Final Assessment:
I’ll adjust my median down to 59% (closer to critic’s 58% but maintaining my structural arguments) and shift more mass to the 30-50% range. The critics have made valid points about mean reversion and oracle dynamics, but I still believe the structural factors supporting elevated rates deserve weight.
Updated prediction: Percentile 0.1: 5.1 Percentile 1: 10 Percentile 5: 21 Percentile 10: 30 Percentile 20: 41 Percentile 30: 48 Percentile 40: 54 Percentile 50: 59 Percentile 60: 65 Percentile 70: 71 Percentile 80: 78 Percentile 90: 85 Percentile 95: 91 Percentile 99: 94.5 Percentile 99.9: 95.0
The critic raises several compelling points that warrant adjustments to my distribution.
Anchoring bias: I did anchor heavily to the current ~65% rate without adequately considering historical stability or whether this represents an elevated state. The lack of historical funding data makes this particularly problematic.
Underweighting mean reversion: At 65% APR, shorts earn ~5.4% monthly from funding alone - an extraordinarily attractive yield. The critic correctly notes I didn’t fully explore why arbitrageurs haven’t already narrowed this spread. The 3x leverage cap is a partial explanation, but even constrained capital should gradually flow toward such yields.
Left tail too thin: The 21% probability of a funding round by June 30, combined with potential oracle methodology updates, Anthropic announcements, or broader AI sector events, justifies more probability mass below 30%. My original P5 of 26% was too optimistic.
Oracle as wild card: This is perhaps the most underappreciated risk. A single oracle update incorporating recent $600-800B secondary valuations could instantly collapse the 16% premium.
Structural persistence matters: The 3x max leverage genuinely limits arbitrage capacity. Even with attractive yields, shorts face position size constraints that prevent rapid convergence. This isn’t just theory - it explains the current 16% premium persisting.
AI sector momentum is real: Unlike typical crypto speculation, vANTHRPC is tied to Anthropic’s actual corporate trajectory. With Amazon’s $25B commitment and valuations reaching toward $800B, the fundamental demand for long exposure isn’t purely speculative froth.
I’m shifting my median from 62% to approximately 59%, fattening the left tail significantly, and keeping the right tail similarly bounded. The distribution now better reflects:
Updated prediction: Percentile 0.1: 5.1 Percentile 1: 11 Percentile 5: 22 Percentile 10: 30 Percentile 20: 41 Percentile 30: 48 Percentile 40: 54 Percentile 50: 59 Percentile 60: 64 Percentile 70: 70 Percentile 80: 77 Percentile 90: 84 Percentile 95: 89 Percentile 99: 93.5 Percentile 99.9: 94.8
Persistent bearish tilt: The critic is right that my 61% median remains 4 points below the current 65% without strong justification. Current market participants are revealing their preferences - they accept 65% APR funding costs to maintain long exposure. This behavioral evidence is powerful.
Internal inconsistency: I was indeed caught in contradictory logic - if structural factors are strong enough to raise my median, they should also compress the left tail more aggressively. This is a fair critique.
Gap treatment overweighting: Major platform downtime affecting a monthly average would require days of outages. Hyperliquid has demonstrated reliability, and treating gap risk as a primary consideration was excessive.
The dampening multiplier insight: The 0.04575 dampening specifically moderates extreme swings, supporting rate persistence around current levels. This technical mechanism actually argues against both tails being heavy.
Some left tail probability warranted: We have zero historical data on vANTHRPC funding rates across multiple months. Novel markets with no track record deserve somewhat wider uncertainty bounds than established instruments.
Thin market volatility cuts both ways: While persistence is the norm, a single large participant exiting could shift dynamics rapidly. This isn’t captured in structural arguments alone.
2-month horizon isn’t trivial: While the critic downplays time for regime change, binary events (Anthropic news, competitive developments, crypto market shifts) could materialize.
The critic’s strongest insight is the “crypto-native intuition” framing. Traditional finance reflexes suggest 65% APR funding should trigger immediate arbitrage. But in crypto-native markets with structural constraints (3x max leverage), these rates are accepted as cost-of-doing-business. The participants in this market understand the rules and are choosing to stay long at these rates.
Additionally, the “no funding round = bullish for rates” paradox is compelling. With only 21% probability of a June funding round, there’s no near-term catalyst to close the oracle-to-mark gap.
I’m shifting my distribution upward to better reflect:
I’m maintaining slightly more left tail than the critic suggests (around P5-P10) to account for genuinely unknown risks in this novel market with no historical calibration data.
Updated prediction:
Percentile 0.1: 5.5 Percentile 1: 13 Percentile 5: 25 Percentile 10: 35 Percentile 20: 45 Percentile 30: 52 Percentile 40: 57 Percentile 50: 62 Percentile 60: 67 Percentile 70: 73 Percentile 80: 79 Percentile 90: 85 Percentile 95: 90 Percentile 99: 94.3 Percentile 99.9: 94.9
Acknowledging Valid Criticisms:
This strongly supports a median closer to 59% than 60%.
Unjustified Reversal: The critic correctly identified I bumped percentiles back up without adequate justification. That was anchoring bias reasserting itself.
Bimodality: The funding round scenario does create genuine bimodal risk. If a round closes mid-June at elevated valuations ($500-600B), the second half of June could see dramatically compressed funding rates while the first half remains elevated.
Technical Risk Asymmetry: The 0% gap rule is pure downside exposure. This asymmetry should bias the distribution leftward slightly, which the critic’s suggested values accomplish.
Defending Remaining Positions:
Structural support still valid: The 16% mark-oracle premium, 3x leverage cap limiting arbitrage, and strong AI narrative all provide structural support for elevated rates absent a major catalyst.
The 21% funding round probability: Most of this probability mass likely concentrates later in June (if not in July-December), so mid-June resets are perhaps 10-12% probability, not the full 21%.
New Insights:
The critic’s expected value framework provides better grounding than pure anchoring on current rates.
May 2026 is indeed a “setup period” we know nothing about—additional reason to widen uncertainty from the current April snapshot.
At $5.79M OI with ~$310K monthly funding cost to longs, this equilibrium is genuinely fragile. Any disruption to the short-side opportunity or long-side conviction could shift rates dramatically.
Final Decision:
The critic’s Round 2 distribution is well-reasoned and addresses my biases appropriately. I’ll accept it with only the most minor adjustments—slightly increasing P90-P95 by 1 point each to account for the possibility that AI hype intensifies before June and the structural factors prove more persistent than mean reversion pressures.
Updated prediction: Percentile 0.1: 5.0 Percentile 1: 12 Percentile 5: 23 Percentile 10: 32 Percentile 20: 42 Percentile 30: 48 Percentile 40: 54 Percentile 50: 59 Percentile 60: 65 Percentile 70: 71 Percentile 80: 78 Percentile 90: 86 Percentile 95: 91 Percentile 99: 94 Percentile 99.9: 95.0
The critic’s strongest arguments that I now accept more fully:
1. Bimodal Distribution Reality: This is the most persuasive new framing. The true underlying process likely has two distinct regimes:
My previous distributions attempted to smooth over this bimodality, which may have created overconfidence in the central range.
2. 10+ Week Horizon: The time until resolution end (late June) is substantial. At 65% APR funding costs, economic pressure on longs is meaningful. I was giving insufficient weight to mean reversion operating over this horizon.
3. 21% Funding Round Probability: A ~1-in-5 chance of a valuation-resetting event during or before June is significant enough to shift more probability mass downward.
Structural Barriers Are Not Theoretical: This is a $5.79M market in a regulatory gray zone offering derivatives on private company valuations. The practical friction for institutional short capital to enter—crypto custody requirements, counterparty risk with HIP-3 deployers, regulatory uncertainty—is substantial. Pure economic incentives don’t flow freely into such markets.
Current Rate Still Provides Information: Market participants paying 65% APR to maintain long exposure are revealing genuine conviction about Anthropic’s trajectory. Dismissing this entirely overweights theoretical mean reversion against revealed preference.
Dampening Multiplier Constrains Extremes: The 0.04575 dampening multiplier combined with hourly settlement mechanically limits how extreme rates can become. This supports keeping the upper tail bounded but also suggests the current ~65% rate already incorporates significant premium—there’s limited upside room.
Monthly Averaging Creates Central Tendency: Averaging 720 hours of funding rates will smooth out short-term spikes/crashes, which should narrow my distribution’s tails rather than widen them.
I’m moving my median down to ~57% (from 59%), accepting the critic’s directional pressure while maintaining that structural barriers prevent full mean reversion. I’m widening the central range to reflect bimodal uncertainty and adding more weight to the 25-45% range for oracle catch-up scenarios.
The P40-P60 range now spans 10 points (53-63%) rather than the previous 9 points, better reflecting binary event uncertainty.
Updated prediction:
Percentile 0.1: 5.0 Percentile 1: 11 Percentile 5: 22 Percentile 10: 31 Percentile 20: 42 Percentile 30: 49 Percentile 40: 54 Percentile 50: 57 Percentile 60: 63 Percentile 70: 69 Percentile 80: 76 Percentile 90: 83 Percentile 95: 89 Percentile 99: 94 Percentile 99.9: 95.0
Agent Forecast (numeric, confidence: low)
Base Rate: Ventuals docs state ~15% annualized is the design target when mark-to-oracle deviation is within 5%; the 11.6% standard interest rate component to shorts implies ~3.4% premium at equilibrium, which can expand materially under sustained directional pressure.
Initial Reasoning:
Key Uncertainties:
Evidence Sources (8):
Grounding Facts (passed to reviewers):
Draft: 15-20: 29.0%, 20-30: 24.0%, 10-15: 18.0%, 30-40: 11.0%, Under 10: 8.0%
Reviewer Panel:
Reviewer (reasoning)
The analysis leans too heavily on the 15% protocol target without quantifying how Ventuals’ dynamic multiplier adjustments or realised volatility could push the realised rate materially above or below that anchor. It also underweights the impact of funding downtime and gap treatments—historical periods of skipped epochs could dilute the average well below 15%. Finally, it assumes minimal mark-to-oracle deviation without checking recent volatility trends or any upcoming parameter changes.
Objections:
Reviewer (calibration)
The draft forecast appears to anchor too strongly to the stated ~15% annualized funding rate target, potentially underestimating the impact of sustained bullish sentiment on Anthropic’s valuation. While the 15% rate is a target under stable mark-to-oracle conditions, the market mechanism actively drives funding rates higher when strong directional pressure causes the mark price to deviate significantly from the oracle. The current valuation trajectory and IPO prospects strongly suggest sustained positive deviation.
Objections:
Reviewer (fact-checker)
1 unsupported claim(s). Verdict: minor_issues
Unsupported claims:
Adjustment Rationale:
Held firm on overall shape because the reasoning and calibration reviewers pulled in opposite directions (tighter-around-15% vs. shift-toward-20-40%), which confirms that a wide distribution is appropriate. Made two small adjustments: (1) shifted ~3pp from 15-20 to 20-30 to honor the calibration reviewer’s strong mechanistic point that 15% represents ~11.6% base + ~3.4% premium at equilibrium, so sustained bullish pre-IPO pressure plausibly compounds the premium component well above baseline; (2) trimmed Under-10 and Over-80 tails slightly after fact-checker flagged my downtime-dilution claim as unsupported — without that argument, deep-low outcomes are less justified. Did not tighten overall confidence per the reasoning reviewer’s request because dynamic multiplier schedules, IPO-event volatility, and lack of direct vANTHRPC historical funding data all justify remaining spread.
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Extracted Percentile Values: {0.1: 5.0, 1.0: 5.0, 5.0: 5.0, 10.0: 5.0, 15.0: 5.0, 20.0: 5.5, 25.0: 6.8, 30.0: 8.2, 35.0: 9.8, 40.0: 11.3, 45.0: 12.7, 46.0: 12.9, 47.0: 13.2, 48.0: 13.5, 49.0: 13.8, 50.0: 14.1, 51.0: 14.4, 52.0: 14.7, 53.0: 15.0, 54.0: 15.3, 55.0: 15.7, 60.0: 18.2, 65.0: 21.0, 70.0: 24.6, 75.0: 29.2, 80.0: 34.8, 85.0: 42.8, 90.0: 54.5, 95.0: 70.0, 99.0: 95.0, 99.9: 95.0}
Model’s Answer: Step one is to anchor on the closest usable base rate: ordinary Hyperliquid perp funding. The research points to roughly low double-digit annualized funding as a normal live-market baseline, but this question is about a monthly average, not a point estimate, and monthly averages are much less extreme than intraday funding prints.
Step two is to adjust for the Anthropic-specific setup. vANTHRPC is active with meaningful open interest, and Anthropic is in an unusually hype-heavy phase on secondary markets, with prices implying something around a trillion-scale valuation. That pushes toward positive funding, because traders chasing upside tend to leave longs paying shorts. So I think the center should be above the generic quiet-market baseline.
Step three is to pull that back down for mean reversion and for the design of the contract. Funding is there precisely to prevent persistent divergence from the oracle. If the market is already roughly tracking the frothy secondary benchmarks, the mechanism should keep the monthly average from running away unless a fresh wave of mania arrives. Also, the resolution floor matters a lot: any genuinely low, flat, or negative realized month resolves to 5.0, so there should be meaningful mass at exactly 5.0.
My base case is therefore a low-teens monthly average annualized funding rate, with a sizable floor probability at 5.0, and a meaningful but not dominant right tail into the 30s, 40s, and beyond if AI/IPO-style speculation intensifies in a thin market.
The assumptions doing the most work are that vANTHRPC remains live and measurable through June with no odd settlement event, which I put around a 90 percent chance; that Anthropic sentiment stays net-bullish enough to keep average funding positive rather than collapsing back to floor, around a 65 percent chance; and that HIP-3 funding for this market stays in the same rough order of magnitude as broader Hyperliquid funding rather than being structurally far wilder, around a 70 percent chance. If these assumptions fail, the forecast shifts mostly toward either the 5.0 floor or a much fatter right tail.
A low outcome happens if valuation hype cools, longs and shorts balance out, negative and positive funding roughly cancel, or there are zero-funded gaps. Because of the floor, “low” mostly means a 5.0 resolution. I think that is materially possible, around one chance in five.
A high outcome happens if Anthropic gets another strong financing rumor, IPO chatter, or fresh secondary-market melt-up that crowds traders into leveraged longs in a market that is still not very deep. Then a monthly average in the 40 to 90 range becomes plausible. I think above 40 is clearly possible but still a minority case, roughly low teens probability, with the cap at 95 needing a more extreme scenario.
Percentile .1: 5.0 Percentile 1: 5.0 Percentile 5: 5.0 Percentile 10: 5.0 Percentile 15: 5.0 Percentile 20: 5.5 Percentile 25: 6.8 Percentile 30: 8.2 Percentile 35: 9.8 Percentile 40: 11.3 Percentile 45: 12.7 Percentile 46: 12.9 Percentile 47: 13.2 Percentile 48: 13.5 Percentile 49: 13.8 Percentile 50: 14.1 Percentile 51: 14.4 Percentile 52: 14.7 Percentile 53: 15.0 Percentile 54: 15.3 Percentile 55: 15.7 Percentile 60: 18.2 Percentile 65: 21.0 Percentile 70: 24.6 Percentile 75: 29.2 Percentile 80: 34.8 Percentile 85: 42.8 Percentile 90: 54.5 Percentile 95: 70.0 Percentile 99: 95.0 Percentile 99.9: 95.0
Resolution of Disagreements:
Disagreement 1 (Market closure risk / P10 divergence): The targeted research provides important evidence. Multiple sources confirm Anthropic plans to IPO in October 2026, not before June. The TradingKey article states “Anthropic plans to debut in October” and “Anthropic plans to go public as early as October.” This means the vANTHRPC market is very unlikely to be settled due to an IPO during June 2026. However, platform operational risk remains (API 500 errors were noted). This partially resolves the disagreement — the IPO-driven closure scenario is unlikely for June, but technical/operational closure risk persists at a lower level. This supports forecaster 4’s higher P10 (14.0) somewhat, but not fully since operational risk remains.
Disagreement 2 (High deviation persistence / P80-P90 divergence): The research provides CRITICAL new information that significantly changes the analysis:
Ventuals official docs confirm a 0.5x multiplier on Hyperliquid’s funding rate formula, not the exponential scaling table cited by forecasters. The actual formula is: F = 0.5 × [Average Premium Index (P) + clamp(interest rate - P, -0.0005, 0.0005)]. This is a dampened version of Hyperliquid’s standard formula, not an exponential blowup.
The baseline annualized funding rate is ~5.5%, not ~15% as multiple forecasters assumed. The docs state: “This results in a baseline funding rate of ~5.5% annualized.”
The MEXC article confirms the funding rate is “1/20 of the Hyperliquid standard” — though this conflicts slightly with the official docs saying 0.5x multiplier. The official docs (primary source) should take precedence.
Hyperliquid’s standard interest rate component is 0.01% every 8 hours = 11.6% APR. With the 0.5x multiplier, the baseline interest component alone contributes ~5.5-5.8% annualized.
This is a major factual correction. The exponential scaling table that forecasters 1-3 relied on (showing 15% floor, 32.69% at 10% deviation, 94.5% at 17% deviation) appears to be either from a different version of the protocol or misattributed. The actual Ventuals funding formula is much more moderate — it’s a dampened linear-ish formula with clamping, not an exponential curve.
Disagreement 3 (Base case deviation regime): With the corrected funding formula, the base case shifts dramatically downward. The ~5.5% baseline with moderate premium adjustments means the funding rate in normal conditions would be much lower than the 15-25% range most forecasters assumed. Even with persistent long bias, the 0.5x dampening and clamping mechanism limits how high the rate can go relative to standard Hyperliquid perps.
Updated Analysis:
The targeted research fundamentally changes the picture. The key corrections are:
With the 0.5x dampened formula:
The velocity limit (0.50% per 3-second update) and mark price band further constrain extreme deviations.
Given strong long-side demand for Anthropic (“almost no sellers”), I expect persistent positive funding, but the dampened formula means rates will be much more moderate than forecasters assumed. The resolution floor of 5.0% becomes more relevant since the baseline is only ~5.5%.
Scenario revision:
The weighted average needs significant downward adjustment, especially at the upper percentiles.
Confidence: HIGH
Percentile 10: 5.0 Percentile 20: 6.0 Percentile 40: 10.0 Percentile 60: 15.0 Percentile 80: 25.0 Percentile 90: 40.0
Forecast (percentiles, aggregated):
Per-model forecasts:
Rationale: Summary The estimate for the average annualized funding rate for the Anthropic perpetual contract (vANTHRPC) on Ventuals in June 2026 centers around 55.0%, with a wide distribution influenced by the protocol’s 5.0% floor and 95.0% ceiling resolution rules. Currently, in late April 2026, the vANTHRPC contract trades at a 15-17% premium to its benchmark oracle price. Because this deviation exceeds the protocol’s 5% low-deviation threshold, an exponential funding multiplier is applied, pushing recent annualized funding rates to between 65% and 100%+. The final average rate in June will depend on whether this premium persists or mean-reverts. The median estimate of 55.0% reflects a blended expectation: the market will likely experience periods of high speculative premiums pushing rates toward the 95.0% cap, interspersed with periods of compression where the rate returns to the protocol’s ~15.0% baseline target.
Strongest Arguments for Higher Values
Strongest Arguments for Lower Values
Key Uncertainties
Ventuals private-company perps trade company valuations rather than shares. For these markets, the oracle is a weighted combination of Notice’s offchain private-market valuation feed (1/3) and a 2-hour EMA of Ventuals’ own mark price (2/3). Funding is paid every hour on Hyperliquid; Ventuals says that when mark/oracle deviation is below 5%, annualized funding is roughly 15%, the 5%-19% zone rises exponentially, and above 19% hourly funding can approach about 1% per hour. Ventuals also constrains mark price to 80%-120% of oracle. Those mechanics matter because the June resolution is an average of hourly accrued funding, so persistent premium matters much more than one-off spikes. (docs.ventuals.com)
The live state on April 23-24, 2026 was already hot. DefiLlama snapshots for vntl:anthropic showed oracle/reference around 912.76-927.88, mid around 1,055-1,081, premium around 16.47%-16.77%, open interest around $5.89M-$6.11M, cumulative volume around $23.73M-$24.44M, and latest funding around 0.0080%-0.0098%. Interpreting those latest funding prints under Hyperliquid’s official hourly convention gives roughly 70.08%-85.848% annualized. That is well above Ventuals’ ~15% “low deviation” regime and broadly consistent with a market spending a lot of time in the high-deviation zone already. (defillama.com)
A useful base-rate check is cumulative funding. Defiant reported that Ventuals had been live since October 2025. If Anthropic has been listed for roughly most of that live period, then cumulative funding per unit of 312.62 by April 24, 2026 implies realized carry on the order of roughly 56%-65% annualized, depending on whether I denominate against the current mid or the current oracle. That is an inference rather than a published exchange metric, but it suggests the current high-funding regime is not just a one-day aberration. It also makes a June result in the high double digits materially more plausible than a collapse all the way to the 5 floor. (thedefiant.io)
The bullish case for keeping June funding elevated is straightforward. Anthropic’s last official round valued it at $380B on February 12, 2026; by late April, Axios described it as racing toward a potential IPO near $800B, TechCrunch reported VC offers at $800B+, and The Next Web summarized reporting that secondary-market indications had reached about $1T. Ventuals also continues a weekly trading-points program that rewards genuine trading activity and holding open interest, alongside a separate ongoing vHYPE points program. Those incentives do not mechanically force positive funding, but they do support continuing speculative participation and persistent one-sided positioning. (axios.com)
The main compression force is oracle catch-up, not necessarily bearish price action. Notice says it updates its price every three seconds using financings, internal/external marks, verified private trades, bids/offers, and comparables; when recent market consensus exists, it strongly favors that consensus. Because Ventuals’ oracle is partly Notice and partly a 2-hour EMA of mark, fresh offchain data can pull the oracle upward and reduce funding even if traders remain bullish. Combined with Ventuals’ explicit mark-price band, that argues against extrapolating the current spot-equivalent 70%-86% annualized regime straight through all of June. (learn.notice.co)
Putting those pieces together, my central estimate for the June 2026 average annualized funding rate is 55%. I think the most likely path is still a clearly positive month, but somewhat lower than the current late-April spot-equivalent reading because the oracle has a decent chance to catch up to private-market enthusiasm by June. I assign about 4% probability to the clipped 5 outcome and about 12% probability to the clipped 95 outcome. My rough percentile read is: 10th percentile about 12%, 25th about 29%, median about 54%-55%, 75th about 79%, and 90th at the 95 cap. This is why the CDF is right-skewed but not centered at the cap. (docs.ventuals.com)
Ventuals’ private-company funding is mechanically unusual. For pre-IPO names like Anthropic, the oracle is a weighted blend of the latest Notice valuation estimate and a 2-hour EMA of the mark price; funding is paid hourly; and Ventuals’ own example table implies roughly 15% annualized even when mark and oracle are aligned, about 32.69% at a 10% mark-to-oracle gap, about 61.32% at 16%, and about 94.50% at 17%. So this forecast mostly comes down to how much of June vANTHRPC spends materially above its oracle, not whether funding merely stays positive. (docs.ventuals.com)
The live April regime is already very hot. DefiLlama’s Anthropic snapshot for April 24, 2026 showed price 1,063, oracle 912.76, premium 16.47%, and latest funding 0.0080% per hour; annualized, that is 70.08%. On April 14, 2026 the same market showed a 13.88% premium and 0.0053% hourly funding, or 46.428% annualized. For context, SpaceX on the same venue was around 8.5%-9.8% premium and 0.0032%-0.0036% hourly, or roughly 28%-32% annualized, so Anthropic is presently the standout crowded-long pre-IPO market on Ventuals. (defillama.com)
The offchain anchor is also moving quickly. Notice’s Anthropic page, updated April 24, 2026, showed a recent consensus market cap of 609.22B, a +60% premium to the last round, and said buy-side demand exceeded supply by 84.8:1. Anthropic itself announced a $380B post-money Series G on February 12, 2026. Since then, TechCrunch/Bloomberg have reported VC offers at 800B+ and described secondary demand as nearly insatiable, while Forge says Anthropic has joined SpaceX and OpenAI in reshaping the upper bound of private-market valuations. This combination supports structurally positive funding, but it also creates the main bearish force on funding: if Notice and other secondary benchmarks keep catching up into June, Ventuals’ oracle can rise even if the perp price stalls, which mechanically compresses mark-to-oracle deviation and thus funding. (notice.co)
The calendar matters. June 2026 begins only a little over five weeks after April 24, 2026, so the best base rate is the live April funding regime rather than some long-run equilibrium. But the resolution is the average over June, not a spot print, so I expect a smoother outcome than the current hour-by-hour readings. I also assign only a small chance that the contract stops early because of IPO-related settlement: current reporting frames Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs as potentially coming as soon as fall 2026 / around October 2026, not in May or June 2026. (axios.com)
My final mixture is therefore: 19% on a cooling/catch-up regime centered near 24%; 45% on a still-elevated regime centered near 44%; 25% on a hot regime centered near 62%; 5% on an extreme regime centered near 84%; 1% clipped at 5%; and 5% clipped at 95%. That yields an expected value of 48.86%, which is my point forecast. In words: I think using the current ~70% area as the straight June forecast would be too aggressive because rising external valuations and growing arbitrage participation should shave it down, but I also think a full reversion toward the ~15%-20% floor-like regime is unlikely by June given Anthropic’s uniquely crowded narrative, Ventuals’ points incentives for holding open interest, and the still-severe scarcity of secondary shares. I do not separately model an Ambiguous resolution; I treat that tail as negligible relative to the numeric-outcome uncertainty. (docs.ventuals.com)
As of Friday, April 24, 2026, my point estimate for the June 2026 average annualized funding rate on Ventuals Anthropic is 61.1%. I treat Ambiguous resolution risk as negligible for numeric forecasting because Hyperliquid documents an official fundingHistory endpoint for funding data, and live third-party analytics are already displaying current Anthropic funding values. (quicknode.com)
The key mechanical fact is that Ventuals private-company funding is highly nonlinear. Ventuals says its private-company oracle is one-third the latest external Notice valuation estimate and two-thirds a 2-hour incremental EMA of mark price, with oracle and mark updating about every 3 seconds. It also says that when average mark-to-oracle deviation is below 5%, annualized funding is roughly 15%, but between 5% and 19% the multiplier rises exponentially; its example table shows about 61.32% annualized at 16% deviation, 94.50% at 17%, and more than 300% at 18%, before even higher values that would be clipped by this market’s 95 cap. Hyperliquid’s base funding is sampled from premium and paid hourly. So a modest change in average deviation can move the June outcome a lot. (docs.ventuals.com)
Current market conditions are already hot. DefiLlama’s April 14, 2026 snapshot for Ventuals ANTHROPIC showed price 907.25, oracle 796.67, premium 13.88%, latest funding 0.0053%, open interest 4.06 million, and cumulative funding per unit 98.45. By April 23-24, 2026, snapshots showed price 1063-1084, oracle 912.76-927.88, premium 16.47%-16.77%, latest funding 0.0080%-0.0098%, open interest 5.89-6.11 million, and cumulative funding per unit 305.69-312.62. Using the market’s stated simple annualization, those late-April hourly rates correspond to roughly 70.08%-85.848%, versus about 46.428% on April 14. In other words, the Anthropic contract has been moving toward the steep part of the funding curve, not away from it. (defillama.com)
Anthropic also looks unusually crowded relative to the other flagship Ventuals private-company names. On April 14, 2026, OpenAI showed only a 2.21% premium and 0.0017% latest funding, while on April 23, 2026, SpaceX showed an 8.58% premium and 0.0032% latest funding. Anthropic’s materially higher premium and funding suggest this is not merely a protocol-wide baseline; Anthropic is the standout momentum market on the venue. (defillama.com)
That positive basis is understandable from the news flow. Anthropic officially raised $30 billion at a $380 billion post-money valuation on February 12, 2026. On April 6 and April 20, Anthropic said its run-rate revenue had surpassed $30 billion, up from about $9 billion at the end of 2025, alongside major new compute commitments with Google/Broadcom and Amazon. On April 7 it launched Project Glasswing with major partners including Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Palo Alto Networks. Bloomberg and TechCrunch then reported in mid-April that Anthropic had attracted investor offers at about $800 billion or higher. Separately, Notice’s April 7 Anthropic page said buyer demand outstripped supply 101:1. All of that supports a continued long bias going into June. (anthropic.com)
I still pull the forecast below the current late-April spot rate because the mechanism is self-correcting. Funding exists to penalize the crowded side and attract shorts or arbitrage, and Notice says its price algorithm incorporates new trades, bids, offers, internal and external marks, and comparables, while strongly favoring current market consensus when consensus exists. So if off-chain private-market prices continue catching up, or if the late-April enthusiasm cools, the June average can settle materially below the current instantaneous 70-86 range. I also assign only a very small chance that the market stops early because current reporting places the earliest serious IPO timing discussion around October 2026, not June 2026; if a surprise June listing did happen, it would push the realized June average downward because Ventuals says funding is set to 0 once the stock market opens on the first trading day and the market then halts at the close. (hyperliquid.gitbook.io)
My distribution therefore uses a mixed-regime view for the June 1, 2026 through June 30, 2026 window: a small floor-like tail for near-full normalization, a 24% regime for cooling, a 45% regime for partial normalization, a 62% regime for a still-elevated but sub-cap month, an 84% regime for sustained squeeze, and a 95% clipped regime for a month that spends enough time near or above the 17-18% deviation cliff. This yields an expected value of about 61.1%, with meaningful right-tail mass at the 95 ceiling because the documented schedule steepens dramatically once average mark-to-oracle deviation approaches 17-18%. I view that right tail as real, but not yet the base case, because the current market is very hot while still not consistently sitting in the fully capped zone. (docs.ventuals.com)
I start from the mechanism, because this market is almost entirely a question about how far the Anthropic perp trades above or below Ventuals’ oracle during June 2026. For private-company perps, Ventuals says the oracle is one-third Notice price plus two-thirds a 2-hour EMA of mark, the mark is band-limited to plus or minus 20% versus oracle, and funding is exchanged every hour. Ventuals’ own example table implies roughly 15.00% annualized funding at 0% to 4% mark-to-oracle deviation, 32.69% at 10%, 46.33% at 14%, and 94.50% at 17%; above 19% deviation the rate becomes explosively large. Hyperliquid’s base formula already contains a fixed interest component equal to 0.01% every 8 hours, i.e. about 11.6% annualized, which helps explain why Ventuals’ low-deviation funding floor is still materially positive rather than near zero. (docs.ventuals.com)
The most useful live read I found is Beacon’s Hyperliquid funding table. In the current snapshot, ANTHROPIC is listed at price 1,129.4 with funding +0.0093, versus OPENAI at +0.0038 and SPACEX at +0.0033. Older Anthropic-specific Beacon snapshots show +0.0036 when price was 514.64 and mark/oracle was 514.64 versus 469.05, and +0.0052 when price was 779.93 and mark/oracle was 779.93 versus 687.50. Beacon labels these values as if they were 8-hour rates, but Ventuals’ docs explicitly say funding on these markets is hourly, and the raw Beacon percentages line up with Ventuals’ mark-to-oracle table only if interpreted as hourly funding. Under that interpretation, those three snapshots correspond to about 31.536%, 45.552%, and 81.468% annualized respectively. I therefore treat Beacon’s raw Anthropic funding percentages as the best available live signal, but I do not trust Beacon’s own annualized field for Ventuals markets; that is an inference from the mismatch between Beacon and Ventuals documentation, not an explicitly documented Beacon rule. (beacontrade.io)
Fundamentally, the direction of travel has been very supportive for positive funding. Anthropic announced a $30 billion Series G round on February 12, 2026 at a $380 billion post-money valuation. On April 15, 2026, TechCrunch reported that investors were offering Anthropic financing at $800 billion or more. On April 20, 2026, TechCrunch reported a fresh $5 billion Amazon investment. On April 23, 2026, reporting summarized by The Next Web said Anthropic had reached roughly a $1 trillion implied valuation on secondary platforms, overtaking OpenAI there. These are exactly the sorts of inputs Notice says it uses: financing rounds, internal and external marks, verified private trades and bids/offers, and comparables. So the same news flow that pushes traders long can also pull the oracle upward over time. (anthropic.com)
That gives the core forecasting tension. Bullish sentiment and scarcity can keep the perp rich to oracle, but Notice/oracle catch-up can compress funding even if Anthropic’s headline valuation stays very high. Notice says that for companies with high private-market consensus, its 80% predictive range for the next trade is about plus or minus 9% of current Notice price; for low-consensus names it is about plus or minus 20%. In other words, even if the latest frenzy points to a very high secondary valuation, oracle convergence is not instantaneous or perfectly precise. That uncertainty is a reason to keep a wide distribution rather than simply extrapolating the latest +0.0093 snapshot straight into all of June. (learn.notice.co)
I also think early market shutdown is a low-probability tail. Ventuals says funding is set to zero once a company goes public and the pre-IPO market enters its listing-resolution process. But the current public reporting summarized on Ventuals points to a possible October 2026 IPO and explicitly says Anthropic has not officially confirmed a timeline, so June 2026 early resolution looks unlikely. I therefore model the June measurement window as effectively the full month, with only a very small residual probability of early cutoff. (docs.ventuals.com)
Putting this together, I used a four-regime mixture: a bearish/oracle-catch-up regime, a moderate-compression regime, an elevated-bullish regime, and a euphoric regime. The live data argue strongly against a near-floor answer being the base case: Anthropic is currently funding well above OpenAI and SpaceX on the same venue, and its recent sequence of observed raw funding readings has moved from roughly 0.0036 to 0.0052 to 0.0093. But I still haircut the latest extreme because Notice has time to catch up before June and because private-market attention could rotate, especially if other marquee pre-IPO names crowd the tape. My resulting distribution has a center in the high 40s to low 50s, about a 3% chance that the clipped market resolves at the 5.0 floor, and about a 7% chance that it resolves at the 95.0 cap. My best single-number estimate is 50% annualized for the June 2026 average. (beacontrade.io)
I treat Ambiguous as negligible for forecasting purposes, because Hyperliquid exposes fundingHistory for HIP-3 perps and the resolution rules explicitly convert missing intervals inside an existing record to 0% rather than Ambiguous. The numeric CDF therefore places effectively all probability mass on the clipped 5.0 to 95.0 outcome range.
Ventuals’ private-company perps are designed to keep valuation contracts tethered to a weighted oracle, not a simple last trade. The oracle is one-third Notice external valuation data and two-thirds a 2-hour EMA of the mark price; the mark itself is banded to 80%-120% of the oracle. Funding is then set dynamically: about 15% annualized when mark-to-oracle deviation is under 5%, rising exponentially between 5% and 19%, and capped at roughly 1% per hour above 19% deviation. Hyperliquid’s
fundingHistoryendpoint is the documented source for realized funding history. (docs.ventuals.com)For current state, I could inspect official docs but not directly submit the POST-only live query in this browser, so I used public live snapshots as a proxy. A snapshot captured on April 24, 2026 showed vntl:anthropic at about $1,063 with oracle/reference $912.76, premium 16.47%, open interest $5.89m, and latest funding 0.0080% per hour. A snapshot from April 23, 2026 showed premium 16.77% and latest funding 0.0098% per hour; an April 14, 2026 snapshot showed 13.88% premium and 0.0053% per hour. Those annualize to about 70.08%, 85.848%, and 46.428%, respectively, so the current regime is already very elevated rather than merely slightly positive. (defillama.com)
Anthropic also stands out versus the other flagship private-company markets on Ventuals. A recent SpaceX snapshot showed 8.58% premium and 0.0032% hourly funding, or 28.032% annualized, while OpenAI showed 2.21% premium and 0.0017% hourly funding, or 14.892% annualized. Anthropic is therefore not just participating in a mild platform-wide long bias; it is currently the richest and most crowded of the big pre-IPO names. (defillama.com)
The fundamental backdrop helps explain that crowding. On February 12, 2026 Anthropic officially raised a Series G at a $380B post-money valuation and said run-rate revenue was $14B. By April 6 and April 20, 2026, Anthropic said run-rate revenue had surpassed $30B, up from about $9B at the end of 2025, and it was expanding massive compute commitments. TechCrunch then reported on April 15, 2026 that Anthropic had received VC offers valuing it at $800B+. That combination of fast-rising fundamentals and much higher private-market chatter makes sustained positive basis much more plausible than it would be for a stagnant name. (anthropic.com)
There are also structural reasons the funding may stay elevated into June. Ventuals’ points program distributes weekly and explicitly rewards both trading activity and holding open interest on Ventuals markets. Ventuals also documents a relatively tight $3,000,000 open-interest cap for ANTHROPIC, subject to change over time. In live snapshots Anthropic already shows materially larger open interest and volume than OpenAI or SpaceX, which reinforces the view that this market is where the strongest speculative demand is concentrating. (docs.ventuals.com)
The main reason I am not simply extrapolating today’s 70%-86% spot funding straight through all of June is mean reversion built into the design. Notice data is polled at least once per minute, oracle prices are updated about every 3 seconds, and the oracle itself already includes a 2-hour EMA of the mark; that lets off-chain repricing and persistent mark moves bleed into the oracle fairly quickly. High funding should also attract shorts, while the mark is constrained to 80%-120% of the oracle and private-company markets are only 3x leverage. So June’s month-average funding should be lower than the hottest late-April prints unless the repricing wave keeps accelerating. (docs.ventuals.com)
My base case is therefore a June 2026 average annualized funding rate in the low-50s. I put most probability mass between roughly 30% and 75%, with a smaller left tail into the teens if oracle catch-up and sentiment cooling dominate, and a meaningful right tail to the 95% resolution cap if Anthropic remains the venue’s standout mania trade. The CDF below encodes a mean a bit above 52%, a median around the low-50s, very little mass at the 5% floor, and a few percent mass at the 95% cap. This is an inference from the protocol mechanics, the current extreme premium/funding regime, and Anthropic’s still-accelerating fundamentals. (docs.ventuals.com)