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Morning Edition · Friday, November 13, 2026Published at 1:16 AM EST · New York
US regulator extends review of Nvidia GPU rental futures to January 8, delaying CME's compute contracts to 2027
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission cites opaque rental prices and supplier concentration as manipulation risks. Kalshi is reported to be raising money for a rival compute futures venue.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has suspended approval of contracts tied to GPU rental prices, although exchanges had planned to start trading this autumn using indexes built by startups. Its review of CME Group's proposed c…
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Compute Becomes a Traded Commodity
GPU capacity increasingly trades as a financial commodity with indexes, futures and collateralized credit, so regulators and exchanges compete to set the rules for pricing compute the way they did for power and bandwidth.
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