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A Startup Is Looking to Pay 30% Yield by Tokenizing AI Infrastructure

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Compute Labs, a startup that turns the industrial-grade GPUs that power AI data centres into fractionalized yield-bearing tokens, and enterprise AI cloud firm NexGen Cloud, have joined forces to begin distributing ownership of a $1 million «public vault,» the companies said on Wednesday.

The power and profitability of AI infrastructure are largely centralized and generally confined to hyperscalers like AWS or large venture-backed firms. However, Compute Labs is attempting to bring its token holders direct access to the earning potential of enterprise hardware such as NVIDIA H200 GPUs, which would retail at around $30,000 for a single unit.

«For investors, this pilot [project] represents the first-ever opportunity to earn stablecoin yield directly from live AI compute without having to manage the hardware or rely on overvalued public equities,» Compute Labs said in a press release.

Europe’s NexGen, which gives its customers access to AI computing power and had raised $45 million in April, will handle the initial financing through its investment arm InfraHub Compute.

How it works

The funds raised will be used by InfraHub to buy GPUs, which will then be fractionalised for investors and customers, according to the press release.

The first «vault» has already raised $1 million from investors. The initial vault will have top-of-the-range NVIDIA GPUs, which are currently used for «AI training and inference,» the firm said. The firms are projecting to have a yield, in USDC, that might go over 30% per year based on active enterprise GPU rental agreements.

Nikolay Filichkin, chief business officer at Compute Labs, talks to the type of data center operators who might have additional floor space and are looking to add extra capacity; the data center equivalent of “mom and pop shops,” he said in an interview with CoinDesk.

“When the data center is using the GPU owned by an investor, Compute Labs manages that through its protocol and balance sheet, and leases the GPUs to the data center,” Filichkin said in an interview. “The net revenue, minus things like hosting and energy costs, goes back to the investor who owns a slice of the GPU processing power.”

The firms tokenize and fractionalize these GPUs within the vaults, which can then be offered to individual investors in increments of a few hundred dollars. NFTs are also used to distinguish between varying types of tokenized GPU hardware investments.

Compute Labs is backed by Protocol Labs, OKX Ventures, CMS Holdings and Amber Group, among others. The firm operates with a flat 10% fee structure across tokenization, asset management and performance yield.

“This model assigns concrete, tradable value to each GPU cycle, rationalizing the AI market by removing the speculation of investors, and directly linking supply, demand, and price,» said Youlian Tzanev, co-founder and chief strategy officer at NexGen Cloud.

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Coinbase Outpaces S&P 500 With 43% June Rise as Stablecoin Narrative Grows: CNBC

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Shares of Nasdaq-listed cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase (COIN) rose 43% this month, making the firm the top performer in the S&P 500 since it joined the index at the end of last month.

June’s run is already the stock’s best since November and caps three straight monthly gains. Coinbase’s shares reached their highest level since their public debut.

COIN hit a $382 high this week before enduring a slight correction, ending the week at $353 and seeing a slight 0.7% drop in after-hours trading to $351.

The wider S&P 500 index rose roughly 5% in June as geopolitical tensions eased.

Washington’s progress on the GENIUS Act, Congress’s first rulebook for dollar-pegged stablecoins, helped shift investor focus from trading fees to stablecoin revenue.

The bill brightened the outlook for Circle, whose shares hit a record high and saw its market cap near that of Coinbase this week.

Coinbase keeps all yield on USDC balances held on its platform and nearly half of other USDC income, equal to about 99 percent of Circle’s revenue, giving shareholders indirect exposure at no added cost, CNBC reported Friday, citing analysts including Citizens’ head of financial technology research Devin Ryan.

Trading, however, remains subdued. Average daily volume on Coinbase has drifted lower since April.

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Robinhood Launches Micro Bitcoin, Solana and XRP Futures Contracts

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Robinhood (HOOD) has introduced micro futures on bitcoin (BTC), solana (SOL) and XRP in the United States., expanding its existing crypto futures offering for its nearly 26 million funded accounts.

Micro contracts need far less collateral than full-size futures, letting traders take directional positions while committing a smaller slice of capital.

The contracts offer traders more flexibility to bet on a cryptocurrency’s future price direction or hedge current positions given their smaller size.

The launch rounds out a futures suite that began with BTC and ETH in January. It also comes weeks after the firm closed its $200 million purchase of Bitstamp and finalized a $179 million deal for Canada’s WonderFi.

Robinhood’s data shows that crypto notional volumes have exploded upward over time, reaching $11.7 billion in May. The figure marks a 36% rise month-over-month, and a 65% growth year-over-year.

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Why is XRP Up Today? Trio of Catalysts Sees Token Outperform Wider Crypto Market

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XRP climbed 5.5% to $2.19 in the last 24 hours after a trio of catalysts converged to help the cryptocurrency outperform the wider cryptocurrency market.

One of the catalysts was launch of XRP micro futures on Robinhood. The contracts offer traders more flexibility to bet on the cryptocurrency’s future price direction or hedge current positions given their smaller size.

Regulatory fog also thinned. On Friday, Ripple withdrew its cross-appeal in its long-running U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) lawsuit. The SEC sued Ripple back in 2020 over its XRP sales, alleging these violated securities laws. The SEC is expected to drop its own appeal, leaving last year’s ruling, ordering Ripple to pay a $125 million civil penalty to the SEC, intact. The move could lift a lid that had kept some investors on the sidelines.

On-chain data rounded out the bullish setup. The XRP Ledger logged over a 1.1 million active addresses over the past week according to crypto analyst Ali Martinez, who cited Glassnode data.

XRP’s rise saw it outperform the wider crypto market, with the broader CoinDesk 20 (CD20) index rising 1.7% in the last 24 hours.

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