SpaceX primed for double-digit pop on first day, if 'perps' trading is any guide

Cnbc · 🇺🇸 public United States · Jun 10, 2026 · 348 words · By Tanaya Macheel

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Crypto traders in the SpaceX pre-IPO perpetual futures are expecting a big first day for Elon Musk's much-hyped space company.

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What happened

Crypto traders in the SpaceX pre-IPO perpetual futures are expecting a big first day for Elon Musk's much-hyped space company.

Why it matters

The perpetual future contract is currently trading around $162 on the Hyperliquid trading platform, a market dominated by highly active, leverage-seeking crypto traders.

Common ground

That's about 20% above its fixed IPO price of $135 per share, but down sharply from the peak levels exceeding $220, reached shortly after its May launch.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 11 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “down sharply from the peak levels exceeding $220, reached shortly after its May launch”

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While evidence confirms the existence of SpaceX perpetuals and their volatility (e.g., falling from $2,277 to $1,254), there is no specific evidence in the provided text confirming a peak of exactly $220 shortly after a May launch.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a corporate history of SpaceX, an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company founded by Elon Musk.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_SpaceX

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Space Exploration Technologies Corp., doing business as SpaceX, is an American spaceflight, telecommunications, and artificial intelligence company headquartered at the Starbase development site in St…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Starship is a two-stage, fully reusable, super heavy-lift launch vehicle under development by American aerospace company SpaceX. Currently built and launched from Starbase in Texas, it is intended as …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship

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Claim 2: “surpassing Tesla, which currently has a market capitalization of roughly $1.6 trillion”

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Evidence is contradictory. One CNBC source and one web search result place Tesla's market cap at roughly $1.6 trillion, while another source states it fluctuated between $1.2T and $1.6T in July 2026, and a specific market cap source lists it at $1.272 trillion.

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web search NEUTRAL — Tesla’s market cap fluctuated between $1.2 trillion and $1.6 trillion across July 2026, a range that illustrates just how much uncertainty is baked into that premium. What this means for the broader m…
https://cryptobriefing.com/tesla-surpasses-combined-valuatio…

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web search NEUTRAL — Market capitalization is calculated by multiplying the share price on a selected day and the number of outstanding shares on that day. The list is expressed in USD millions, using exchange rates from …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_public_corporations_by…

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web search NEUTRAL — Market capitalization of Tesla (TSLA). Market cap: $1.272 Trillion USD. As of July 2026 Tesla has a market cap of $1.272 Trillion USD. This makes Tesla the world's 11th most valuable company by market…
https://companiesmarketcap.com/tesla/marketcap/

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Claim 3: “The perpetual future contract is currently trading around $162 on the Hyperliquid trading platform”

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The claim that the SpaceX perpetual was trading around $162 on Hyperliquid is explicitly confirmed by a web search result citing CNBC.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Aster is a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange and derivatives platform focused on perpetual futures trading. The platform supports perpetual futures trading and other digital asset trading services…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aster_(cryptocurrency_exchange…

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web search NEUTRAL — Trade crypto, commodities, indices, and more on Hyperliquid: 300+ perpetual and spot markets, fully onchain, non-custodial, 24/7.
https://app.hyperliquid.xyz/

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web search NEUTRAL — Trade.xyz’s SPCX pre-IPO perpetual on Hyperliquid has crossed $500 million in 24-hour volume and more than $300 million in open interest, turning synthetic SpaceX exposure into one of crypto’s most ac…
https://coinpress.media/spcx-pre-ipo-perp-tops-500m-volume-a…

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Claim 4: “Perpetual futures contracts, known as "perps," are a type of futures contract that let investors speculate on an asset's price without an expiration date and utilizing leverage, without ever owning the underlying asset”

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Multiple financial education sources (LiteFinance, Mudrex) provide a standard definition of perpetual futures that matches the claim exactly.

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web search NEUTRAL — A perpetual futures contract is a derivative with no expiration date. Unlike traditional futures contracts, it allows traders to keep a position open indefinitely. The funding rate is a key mechanism …
https://www.litefinance.org/blog/for-beginners/perpetual-fut…

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web search NEUTRAL — Perpetual futures: Contracts with no fixed expiry. A funding mechanism helps keep the perpetual price close to spot. Dated or delivery futures: Contracts that expire and settle on a specified date.
https://mudrex.com/learn/crypto-futures-vs-options/

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web search NEUTRAL — Perpetual contracts provide continuous price exposure without operational complexity, transaction costs, or liquidity fragmentation of traditional futures.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/future-futures-qfex-dn1ve

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Claim 5: “accounting for more than 70% of all the volume on centralized global crypto exchanges, according to CoinGecko”

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The claim is explicitly corroborated by a CNBC cross-reference attributing the 70% volume statistic to CoinGecko.

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cross reference SUPPORTS — They're one of the most popular ways to trade in crypto, accounting for more than 70% of all the volume on centralized global crypto exchanges, according to CoinGecko.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/04/investors-can-buy-spacex-ear…

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Claim 6: “SpaceX is set to begin trading Friday on the Nasdaq”

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A CNBC cross-reference explicitly states SpaceX is slated to begin trading on the Nasdaq on Friday.

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web search NEUTRAL — Elon Musk owns 42% of the outstanding shares of SpaceX and controls 85% of the voting power via his super-voting stock. SpaceX was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk with the goal of reducing spaceflight co…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX

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web search NEUTRAL — SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other…
https://www.spacex.com/

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Claim 7: “Musk's rocket company is reportedly running four times oversubscribed”

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Two independent web search results from June 10, 2026, explicitly state that the SpaceX IPO was more than four times oversubscribed.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Elon Musk is the wealthiest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of US$738 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and $744 billion according to Forbes, as of July 23, 2026, …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_of_Elon_Musk

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The initial public offering (IPO) of SpaceX, an American aerospace and artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk in 2002, occurred on June 12, 2026. It was the largest ever IPO, at a valuat…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_public_offering_of_Spa…

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Claim 8: “SpaceX perpetual futures on Binance were trading at a similar level”

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Web search results confirm that both Binance and Hyperliquid offered pre-IPO perpetual futures for SpaceX and that traders were using both venues for exposure.

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web search NEUTRAL — Before that, traders on Binance, Coinbase, Hyperliquid and other venues were already buying and selling exposure to the company through pre-IPO perpetual futures, contracts structured to track an impl…
https://www.coininsider.com/news/perps-now-lead-crypto-price…

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web search NEUTRAL — The $9 billion liquidity tsunami that flooded Binance and Hyperliquid during the SpaceX launch is a historical milestone in global macro finance. It has decisively answered the cynical question of wha…
https://insights.eootle.com/post?id=MTcx

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web search NEUTRAL — The product enters a space recently tested by the decentralized platform Trade.xyz, which launched a synthetic SpaceX contract on Hyperliquid that briefly lifted its HYPE token by around 7%. However, …
https://coinalertnews.com/news/2026/05/21/binance-pre-ipo-pe…

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Claim 9: “At a valuation of $1.77 trillion, Musk's venture would instantly rank as the seventh-largest public company in the United States”

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Multiple web search results confirm the $1.77 trillion valuation and that this would rank it as the seventh-largest public company in the U.S.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Starshield is a division of SpaceX's Starlink subsidiary creating purpose-built low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellites designed to provide new military space capabilities to U.S. and allied governments. Sta…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starshield

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Claim 10: “That's about 20% above its fixed IPO price of $135 per share”

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Multiple CNBC cross-references and a Wikipedia entry for the 'Initial public offering of SpaceX' confirm the fixed IPO price was $135 per share.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — SpaceX Starbase, previously known as SpaceX South Texas Launch Site and SpaceX private launch site, is an industrial complex and rocket launch facility that serves as the main testing and production l…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starbase

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Claim 11: “Bitcoin and ether are down 20% and 23%, respectively, in the same period from when the perp was launched on May 18”

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