Polymarket Completes First 6-Figure AI Compute Block Trade as It Courts Institutional Flow
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Updated · CNBC · Jun 2
Polymarket Completes First 6-Figure AI Compute Block Trade as It Courts Institutional Flow
1 articles · Updated · CNBC · Jun 2
A six-figure block trade on Polymarket tied to AI compute marked the platform’s first such transaction, with FalconX and Anera Labs trading a contract linked to the Ornn Compute Price Index.
That index tracks rental pricing for Nvidia’s H100 GPUs, and Polymarket said the deal shows institutions can use prediction markets to hedge real-world GPU compute exposure at scale.
FalconX will now act as a dedicated market maker for future block trades on Polymarket, part of a broader push by prediction platforms to turn rising retail volumes into institutional growth.
The announcement follows Kalshi’s first block trade just over a month ago, though Polymarket said its deal was the first institutional prediction-market block trade executed on-chain via Polygon.
Polymarket’s international exchange remains separate from its U.S. platform, which launched in December after a 2022 regulatory ban; the CFTC and DOJ dropped investigations in July without charges.