Compute Desk is a capital markets infrastructure company that provides pricing indexes, trading tools, settlement infrastructure, and financial instruments for compute traders. Compute Desk's Twitter Score is 26 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #38,026 (top 10%) among 493,668 tracked accounts.
Compute Desk operates as the legal entity The Compute Index, Inc. and was co-founded by Andrawes Bahou and David Lopez Mateos. The company is backed by Crucible Capital and covers the full lifecycle of compute as a tradeable asset, from pricing and procurement through brokerage, hedging, financing, and liquidation.
Compute Desk's core products include Compute Signal, Compute Trader, and Compute Clear. The company publishes GPU-compute price indexes on Bloomberg terminals under the tickers CIBLKWUS, CIHOPUS, and CIHOPEU, giving institutional market participants a standardized reference for GPU rental prices. Architect Financial Technologies has plans to build futures and options on compute using these indexes as the underlying price reference for NVIDIA GPU rental rates.
Compute Desk announced ComputeConnect, a US compute exchange-for-physical network designed to link CFTC-regulated compute derivatives with physical GPU-capacity delivery. In a notable early market milestone, partners Pluto and Wintermute completed an H100 OTC forward trade priced using Compute Desk data. Compute Desk has published 52 posts and has been mentioned by 12 accounts a total of 33 times, with 1,455 followers as of October 2026 on the platform.
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