Polymarket traders bet Anthropic will outgrow Bitcoin by year-end

Polymarket traders are wagering that Anthropic's market cap will exceed Bitcoin's by the end of the year, a bet that underscores growing investor conviction that AI valuations could rival the largest crypto assets. The prediction market activity, first reported by Crypto Briefing, reflects a broader shift in capital and attention toward AI companies at the expense of digital assets. Anthropic, the AI lab behind the Claude model family, has seen its private-market valuation climb sharply through recent funding rounds, while Bitcoin's market cap has hovered in the low trillions, making the implied crossover a long-odds proposition. Traders on Polymarket, the largest crypto-native prediction market, are effectively pricing in an unprecedented reordering of asset-class hierarchy if the bet resolves "yes." Market watchers should monitor Anthropic's next funding round or potential IPO, Bitcoin's price trajectory, and changes in the odds on Polymarket's market as signals of shifting sentiment between AI and crypto.