Jump Trading and DRW commit traders and capital to compute power contracts

Two of the biggest names in proprietary trading are betting that GPU capacity can become a tradable financial market Jump Trading and DRW are putting real traders and real money behind a market that, until recently, mostly lived in conference panels: financial contracts tied to computing power. The AI boom runs on GPUs. Now two of the best-known proprietary trading firms want to turn the rental of those chips into something you can price, hedge, and trade like a commodity. Jump’s move came on October 12-13, 2026, when the firm said it had hired the entire founding team of Itô. The startup specialized in trading compute and inference, the process of running a trained AI model to produce answers.

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