The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is seeking public input on compute derivatives as CME Group plans to launch futures tracking monthly rental costs for Nvidia H100 and Blackwell B200 chips on October 5, 2026. The initiative follows a contentious CFTC Innovation Advisory Committee discussion in which CME CEO Terry Duffy questioned prediction-market approvals, regulatory inconsistencies and offshore DeFi access, while CFTC Chair Michael S. Selig defended the agency’s approach and promoted computing capacity as a critical commodity.