{"id":91808,"date":"2026-05-12T18:01:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T18:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=91808"},"modified":"2026-05-12T18:01:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T18:01:31","slug":"exclusive-spacex-openai-anthropic-ipos-could-suck-air-from-crypto-market-says-anchorage-digitals-lawant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=91808","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic IPOs Could &#8216;Suck Air&#8217; From Crypto Market, Says Anchorage Digital&#8217;s Lawant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Anchorage Digital<\/strong>&#8216;s head of research,<strong> David Lawant, <\/strong>believes the cryptocurrency market will continue to perform well this year; however, the three pending IPO&#8217;s from <strong>SpaceX, OpenAI,<\/strong> and <strong>Anthropic<\/strong> will likely have some impact on the crypto market given the size of their collective valuations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The amount of capital that we&#8217;re talking about here will probably suck air from a lot of the rooms. That&#8217;s another non-industry-related but also non-macro factor that I think is very important to watch,&#8221; Lawant told Benzinga in an interview.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Bitcoin Price Action<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Bitcoin<\/strong>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) recent price action has largely been driven by institutional flows, shifting from treasury companies to ETFs over the last two months.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lawant identified three core drivers supporting Bitcoin&#8217;s positive trend: improving macro risk sentiment, light investor positioning, and growing industry fundamentals.<\/p>\n<p>While Bitcoin&#8217;s volatility has been structurally lower amid recent geopolitical stress due to mechanical factors and market positioning, Lawant cautioned that this low-volatility environment is unlikely to persist indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t think this is going to be the case forever, though. I would expect Bitcoin\u2019s volatility to come back at some point, but it might take a while,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pretty much everyone who wanted to sell Bitcoin probably sold it by April,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, industry optimism is rising due to potential regulatory milestones like the market structure bill and increasing institutional interest in stablecoins and DeFi.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The caliber of institutions that we are seeing engage &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/private-markets\/26\/05\/52500071\/exclusive-spacex-openai-anthropic-ipos-could-suck-air-from-crypto-market-says-anchorage-d?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"EXCLUSIVE:\" spacex openai anthropic ipos could air from crypto market says anchorage digital lawant>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anchorage Digital&#8216;s head of research, David Lawant, believes the cryptocurrency market will continue to perform well this year; however, the three pending IPO&#8217;s from SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic will likely have some impact on the crypto market given the size of their collective valuations. &#8220;The amount of capital that we&#8217;re talking about here will probably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-91808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}