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Nodal Exchange Plans Nvidia GPU Rental Futures With Compute Desk

September 3, 2026 at 12:26 EDT

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Infra & Chips

Nodal Exchange and index provider Compute Desk said they plan to list cash-settled futures on the cost of renting Nvidia Corp. graphics processors, adding a U.S. power-market specialist to a widening effort to turn artificial-intelligence computing capacity into a tradable commodity.

September 3, 2026 · Nodal Exchange

Power exchange enters the GPU futures race

Nodal Exchange and Compute Desk plan cash-settled futures on Nvidia Hopper and Blackwell rental prices, aiming to list this year subject to regulatory compliance.

Why a hedge is being built

Blackwell spot rent, mid-Feb vs mid-Apr 2026

Each block is $0.25 per GPU-hour. Column height tracks the Ornn print: $2.75 rose to $4.08, a 48% jump.

$2.75

Mid-Feb · per GPU-hr

$4.08

Mid-Apr · per GPU-hr

Takeaway: a two-month 48% swing in Blackwell rent is the volatility these contracts are meant to hedge.

2026

Nodal target listing window

Oct 5

CME H100 and B200 target

56%

Nodal share of U.S. power futures OI

1,000+

Existing Nodal locational power contracts

How the contract is supposed to work

GPU rental market

Hopper and Blackwell hours

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Daily blended indexes

Compute Desk OTC prints

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Cash-settled futures

Listed and cleared at Nodal

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Hedge the stack

Compute, power, or the spread

The case for listing

Neocloud operators call listed contracts the missing hedge for labs, infrastructure firms, and lenders. Nodal’s pitch is one venue for power and GPU rent.

The open objections

GPU-hours are not interchangeable across chip generations or sites. Contracts would pay cash, not deliver a cluster, and the CFTC comment file is still open.

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