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Record W4415900763 · doi:10.1111/1911-3838.70002

Pre‐ <scp>IPO</scp> Tokens: Trading in the Dark

2025· article· en· W4415900763 on OpenAlexaffvenue
Johnathon Cziffra, Margaret Fong

Bibliographic record

VenueAccounting Perspectives · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicCorporate Finance and Governance
Canadian institutionsHEC Montréal
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSecurity tokenEquity (law)Valuation (finance)Private equityPrivate information retrievalAuditCapital marketPrivate placement

Abstract

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ABSTRACT Pre‐IPO tokens offer a new way for individual investors to access the private equity markets. However, without access to the private firm or to regulated public disclosures, token traders operate under extreme information asymmetry. This paper examines the behavior of the pre‐IPO token market around private funding events, such as venture capital rounds, which often offer a rare glimpse into the private firm. We find that investor attention spikes around funding announcements, and token prices decline—particularly when valuation information is disclosed and pre‐event token prices are loftier. These findings suggest that information released around funding events tempers speculative fervor in a market that otherwise trades in the dark. This study may interest accountants and auditors evaluating tokenized securities and their underlying assets. It also contributes to the discussion on expanding individual investors' access to the private markets while ensuring appropriate safeguards. JEL Classification: G1, G4

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.007
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.012
Threshold uncertainty score0.040

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.007
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0030.002
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0120.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.013
GPT teacher head0.232
Teacher spread0.219 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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