Bitget's Anthropic VIP Round Closes at $101.6 Million

Bitget's Anthropic VIP subscription round closed at $101,592,299, with 2,166 participants committing funds by 2:36 a.m. ET on Nov. 11 — minutes before the scheduled cutoff. That total represents roughly 10.2% of the round's $1 billion pool cap, according to the platform's own subscription tally.

The round ran under Bitget IPO Prime, the exchange's product line that lets users subscribe to tokenized exposure tied to upcoming public listings. VIP1 through VIP7 users could participate using Tether (USDT) or USDGO. Each person faced a hard ceiling of $3 million.

Bitget moved the deadline once. An earlier schedule set the VIP window to close at 3 a.m. ET on Nov. 9. The updated schedule pushed that to 3 a.m. ET on Nov. 11, giving eligible users two extra days to commit capital.

What happens in the public round?

A public round opened at 3 a.m. ET on Nov. 10 and remains live. It is far more accessible. Contributions start at $100 and cap at $25,000, and every user on the platform can take part, not just VIP tiers.

The public round runs until 3 a.m. ET on the day before Anthropic's planned U.S. IPO. Eligible users can subscribe to both rounds, and the two carry separate allocations. In other words, one wallet, two shots at exposure, with independent caps on each.

What does this change for subscribers?

The key structural detail sits in what buyers actually receive. Allocations will be delivered as Anthropic rToken, or rANT. This token does not confer direct share ownership. It carries no shareholder rights — no votes, no dividends, no claim on Anthropic's equity itself.

That distinction matters. Subscribers are buying a synthetic product issued by Bitget, not shares in the company. The instrument tracks participation in the IPO event through the exchange's infrastructure, and its terms live or die with Bitget's product design rather than with Anthropic's cap table.

A softer landing than the cap suggested

The final tally offers a sober read on demand. A $1 billion pool cap framed the round's ambitions. The $101.6 million actually committed covers about a tenth of that. Whether that reflects caution toward tokenized IPO exposure, the tier restrictions, or simple timing against the deadline extension, the platform did not say.

The VIP figures still show meaningful early appetite. Two thousand subscribers averaging roughly $47,000 each is not retail noise. It is concentrated, high-ticket participation from the exchange's top tiers.

Attention now shifts to the public round's close and to Anthropic's IPO itself. The subscription window ends at 3 a.m. ET the day before the planned listing, so the final public-round tally will land as a last datapoint on pre-IPO demand for tokenized exposure to one of the most closely watched AI listings on the horizon.