Humanoid Robots

Unitree Robotics opened at 1,100 yuan in Shanghai, valuing the robot maker at about $66 billion and landing well above the level implied by a Hyperliquid perpetual futures market. The debut highlights both the growing influence and clear limitations of crypto-based pre-IPO price discovery.

Crypto derivatives traders on Hyperliquid are valuing Unitree Robotics at nearly $38 billion through pre-IPO perpetual markets, far above the robot maker’s roughly $9 billion IPO valuation. The gap sets up a potentially sharp convergence event when public trading begins, with leveraged longs and shorts both exposed to liquidation risk.