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CoreWeave got a prepayment of $230 million from MagAI Ventures in August 2024 for a pre-negotiated hourly rate of compute for their portfolio companies. But as of September 2025 no compute capacity has been used, so terms were changed where the $230 million effectively becomes a loan with a 12% interest rate. If the contract is terminated today, CoreWeave now owes $230 million + $35 million in interest. If there were a futures market where people could buy and sell rights to future compute (cost of GPU/hr), that $230 million could have been turned into a tradeable futures contract instead of a loan. If MagAI’s startups didn’t need the compute, MagAI could have simply sold those rights to someone else who did, instead of CoreWeave having to pay the money back with interest. @computeindex we’re building a compute derivatives market so that prepayment deals can become tradeable assets on future compute capacity instead of expensive debt in cases like this. We’re super early, but our bet is that as every company becomes an inference company, hedging compute will become a necessary function in finance departments just like it is today for oil, electricity, wheat, etc.

CoreWeave got a prepayment of $230 million from MagAI Ventures in August 2024 for a pre-negotiated hourly rate of compute for their portfolio companies. But as of September 2025 no compute capacity has been used, so terms were changed where the $230 million effectively becomes a loan with a 12% interest rate. If the contract is terminated today, CoreWeave now owes $230 million + $35 million in interest. If there were a futures market where people could buy and sell rights to future compute (cost of GPU/hr), that $230 million could have been turned into a tradeable futures contract instead of a loan. If MagAI’s startups didn’t need the compute, MagAI could have simply sold those rights to someone else who did, instead of CoreWeave having to pay the money back with interest. @computeindex we’re building a compute derivatives market so that prepayment deals can become tradeable assets on future compute capacity instead of expensive debt in cases like this. We’re super early, but our bet is that as every company becomes an inference company, hedging compute will become a necessary function in finance departments just like it is today for oil, electricity, wheat, etc.







HIP3 perp builders @KhattarUdai & @tanishabassan from @computeindex reflect on: 1. Why GPU Perps matter. 2. Why SEDA is the right oracle for them. The house of all finance needs more than crypto feeds. SEDAliquid


Global Compute is pricing the volatility of GPU chips as tradable perps on @HyperliquidX. The first compute commodity market will be built on-chain through HIP-3, powered by @computeindex & @sedaprotocol. Be the first to trade the volatility of compute! GPUliquid


Trade the volatility of GPU chips on @computeindex powered by @sedaprotocol






