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Jump Trading and DRW move into compute futures market

  • —Jump Trading has set up a dedicated team to make markets in compute futures
  • —Contracts are being prepared by CME with Silicon Data and ICE with Ornn
  • —DRW plans to trade through three teams using different strategies
  • —The market faces opaque pricing and wide regional gaps in GPU costs
Why it matters: Major trading firms are legitimizing compute as an asset class, potentially linking AI infrastructure to traditional derivatives.
Source: PANews