Just like gold and oil, we’ll soon be able to trade AI token futures

The most important market of the future could be in LLM tokens — and financial groups are rushing to build new infrastructure for them.

China’s Shanghai Futures Exchange is currently designing a derivatives market for AI tokens, Reuters reports. The news comes as major derivatives exchange CME Group, and the Intercontinental Exchange (the owner of the NYSE) have separately said they’re working on launching futures contracts for renting GPUs.