Squaretower provides on‑chain financial instruments for AI compute, including an H100 hourly price index that underlies perpetual futures contracts, enabling transparent price discovery and liquidity. It also offers a prime‑brokerage platform with custom compute contracts, risk analytics, and API integration for enterprises and financial institutions to hedge compute exposure.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
AI compute resources such as GPU rentals are priced in fragmented, opaque markets, exposing buyers and cloud providers to significant price volatility and making it difficult to treat compute as a tradable asset. Without standardized financial instruments, institutions lack reliable ways to hedge compute‑related risk or to allocate capital to this emerging commodity class.
Solution
Squaretower builds a suite of financial primitives that bring compute into the regulated capital markets. It operates public on‑chain markets, including an H100 hourly price index that underlies perpetual futures contracts, enabling transparent price discovery and liquidity for AI compute. For enterprise clients, Squaretower offers a bespoke prime‑brokerage service that structures customized contracts, prices compute risk, and connects new types of buyers to the market. The platform also provides research and data analytics that quantify GPU depreciation, rental volatility, and long‑term compute demand, supporting institutional risk modeling. All services are delivered via API‑driven integration, allowing participants to embed compute‑related hedging and trading directly into their treasury or asset‑management workflows.
Target Audience
Primary customers are AI‑focused enterprises, cloud service providers, and financial institutions such as hedge funds, asset managers, and corporate treasuries that need to hedge compute exposure or invest in compute as an asset class.
Features
- On‑chain H100 hourly index derived from real‑time rental pricing data, serving as the reference for tradable perpetual futures contracts
- Public market portal with order‑book depth, trade execution, and settlement compliant with standard crypto‑asset regulations (excluding U.S. persons)
- Bespoke prime‑brokerage platform that creates tailor‑made compute contracts, supports margining, and offers counterparty risk management tools
- Real‑time analytics dashboard delivering GPU depreciation models, volatility metrics, and demand forecasts for institutional risk assessment
- REST and WebSocket APIs for seamless integration of market data, order routing, and trade reporting into existing treasury systems
- Role‑based access controls and audit logs to meet AML/KYC compliance requirements for financial institutions
- Documentation and SDKs (in Python and TypeScript) to accelerate developer onboarding and custom workflow automation