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AI Mega-IPO Liquidity Regime — Index Plumbing, Lockups, and the Issuance Bell

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status monitoring priority medium thesis tickers 8 scan-mentioned tickers 2 events 8 latest Aug 14, 2026

Market-structure lens (NOT 'buy SpaceX'): whether compressed index-entry rules, passive-product plumbing, float/lockup mechanics, and allocation crowding make the 2026 AI mega-IPO wave (SpaceX, then OpenAI/Anthropic if they list) a market-wide attribution lens — mega-cap AI winners as funding sources, halo flows to proxies, passive bids on known index dates, and audited S-1s finally sizing the demand side of the compute/power/memory/optical bottleneck theses. HONEST GAP: opened 2026-06-02 as a Story Track and never updated through the SpaceX debut (2026-06-12), so the IPO-day and T+5/T+15 index-window gates lapsed unobserved — the record claims nothing about how they resolved. Re-arms on OpenAI/Anthropic S-1s, the lockup ladder, and the issuance-surge bell (mega-IPO clusters as cohort tops: FB 2012 / BABA 2014 base-rate study). Child case executed separately: spacex-ipo-liquidity-event. Folded from the retired Story Track system 2026-07-22 (user call).

Watch for: OpenAI/Anthropic S-1s (one allocation regime or separate events); lockup ladder vs passive demand after each debut; issuance-surge bell firing (cluster of mega listings = cohort-top base rate).

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