SpaceX IPO Recap: SPCX Closes +19% in a Record Debut, While Tokenized Stocks Stumble

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SpaceX did what a heavily oversubscribed mega-IPO is supposed to do — it popped, held most of the gain, and closed comfortably above its offer price. The more interesting story sits one layer down, in the tokenized and crypto-native products that launched alongside it. There, the day split cleanly into two outcomes: products that actually controlled the underlying shares worked, and the one model that relied on a middleman to find shares at the last minute did not. That divide, more than the stock's 19% gain, is what this debut will be remembered for.

How SPCX Actually Traded

The headline numbers were strong without being euphoric. Shares opened at $150, peaked at $176.52 intraday, and closed at $160.95 — up about 19% from the $135 offer price. That close translated to roughly a $2.1 trillion market cap, making SpaceX the seventh-largest public company in the world on its first day. The raise itself — about $75 billion on more than 555 million shares — locked in the record as the biggest IPO in history. 

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