LLM tokens are expected to become one of the most important markets of the future, and major financial groups are rushing to create new infrastructure for them. According to Reuters, the Shanghai Futures Exchange is currently designing a derivatives market for artificial intelligence tokens. This is reported by Techcrunch.com reports .
This news comes at a time when major exchanges like CME Group and Intercontinental Exchange, the owner of the NYSE, have announced they are working on launching futures contracts for GPU rentals. Although the GPU market is still in its formative stage, the presence of many companies selling and renting out video cards has led to a stable spot market for hourly rental prices.
According to AI Mining Co., the average rental price for NVIDIA H100 GPUs ranges from $1.40 to $4.27 per hour, while H200 models are valued between $2.34 and $5. Although the GPU market is developed, infrastructure around tokens, which are the fundamental building blocks of modern AI models, is still insufficient.
Major artificial intelligence companies are pricing their services through tokens. For example, OpenAI charges $5 per million input tokens and $30 per million output tokens for its latest GPT-5.5 model API service. Even cloud systems like Amazon Bedrock are moving to a per-token payment system.
The Shanghai exchange's initiative coincides with an era of unprecedented investment in AI infrastructure. New derivative products will be linked to how AI companies price their services. This allows investors and data center operators to hedge against fluctuations in computing power costs.
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