Layer-1 blockchain Injective has launched a perpetual futures market tracking rental prices of five Nvidia GPUs (H100, B200, H200, A100 and RTX 4090), with leverage of up to 10x. The Super Intelligence Compute Index (SICI), compiled by LO:TECH from compute marketplace data, weights the H100 at 40% and the B200 at 25%, updates hourly using a seven-day trailing average, and uses USDC as margin. Injective says the market lets AI developers hedge against rising computing costs and lets GPU providers protect against falling rental revenue. The launch comes as Gartner warned that more than 80% of specialist AI cloud providers, known as neoclouds, could stop operating independently by 2030, and Elon Musk said more than 200 such providers could fail or consolidate.
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