Trion is live.
CA: 0x4855024b676c8C5779c836E35F469C462Bfb7f4b
The market for compute. Buy and sell options on the price of an H100 GPU-hour, fully collateralized, on Robinhood Chain.
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Trion update for today:
Our beta testers sent us a lot of mobile feedback, so today is making Trion feel great on a phone.
Shipped:
• New Charts / Trade tabs, so the chart gets the whole screen and the order ticket gets its own
• The price chart now fills about three quarters of the screen on an iPhone
• Faster mobile loads: the options page ships half the code, and the perp chart opens about 30% faster
• Deposit and Withdraw right from Portfolio, plus a one-tap fix when your wallet is on the wrong network
In progress:
• The Trion iOS app.
The CMPT-USD perpetual is still in closed beta. Thanks to everyone testing and sending feedback. Keep it coming.
We shipped a backend upgrade to the Trion exchange engine this morning.
Upgrades:
• Order confirmations are more than 2x faster in our load tests, and the slowest ones are nearly 4x faster.
• Steadier under pressure. When traffic spikes, response times stay tight instead of piling up.
• Restarts recover about 2x faster.
We will continue to beta test over the weekend. I have some new guys testing this morning.
We're always open to suggestions and ideas. Post in the comments or join discord for further discussions.
Discord: https://t.co/Ap2R64VJM7
We're still testing ideas internally and tracking different metrics and improving ideas.
Thank you, everyone, that has been here so far. Let's keep building and pushing the frontier forward.
GPU compute is one of the biggest markets in the world, and it still has no price everyone trusts.
We want to fix that at Trion, and we want to do it with the industry.
At Trion we're building CMPT, an open benchmark for what GPU compute actually costs. We are counting what people actually paid, not what's listed.
That needs data from the people who run the GPUs: clouds, marketplaces, brokers, resellers. We'd rather license it properly than scrape it. So I'm reaching out to the owners directly.
What's in it for providers:
• your real prices count in the benchmark
• attribution and a fair data-licence deal
• free index access for you and your customers
• a say in the methodology before it's the standard
• later, a way for your customers to lock in compute costs
A benchmark is only worth something if people can trust it. So we'll get everything independently audited: the index methodology, the data pipeline and the smart contracts. And we'll publish the results.
Every commodity that grew up got a trusted price: oil, power, freight, etc. Compute is next bet. The benchmark should be built by the people who make the market.
If you run GPUs my DMs are open. I've reached out reached to all the industry well known names to get this done right.
In this video @JohnArnold is right: compute will only trade like a real commodity once there's either a standard product with deep liquidity or an index the industry trusts. Both are hard. That's the problem we're working on at Trion.
What we have today:
• CMPT, an index of what it costs to rent one NVIDIA H100 GPU for one hour. Instead of indexing "compute" in general, it prices one standard unit.
• It's built from a panel of GPU cloud providers and marketplaces, including executed rental prices from the Akash network.
• Our price oracle publishes every CMPT price on-chain on Robinhood Chain, together with a cryptographic hash of the exact inputs behind it.
• CMPT-USD, a perpetual contract on that price, is in beta.
What we're testing in the background:
• A more reliable way to calculate the index: one that holds steady when a provider's data goes down or goes stale, brings providers in and out gradually instead of all at once, and screens out one-off price spikes until they're confirmed.
What's next:
• A separate product: an S&P 500 for GPUs. A broader index that weights each provider by how much capacity it actually rents out, with caps so no single provider can dominate. The hard part is that almost nobody publishes those numbers, so building a weighting the market can trust is what we're working on.
• We know this is hard, and nobody has fully solved it yet. That's exactly why we want to be at the cutting edge of it: building in the open, testing new methods, and helping set the standards this industry will run on. We have ideas, we're testing them, and we're going to figure it out.
• I'm happy to be taking this on. I have more ideas up my sleeve.
Arnold Ventures Co-Chair @JohnArnold on what’s stopping compute from becoming a real commodity market:
“Compute is not a commodity where one data center is providing the same product as another data center.”
“You either have to deliver into a certain product that has a lot of buyers and a lot of sellers… or you need some type of index that the industry trusts.”
“There just aren’t that many short-term deals. Transparency into those is difficult.”
“The distinctions between the chips and the design of the data center and all the specific needs is just different.”
“Trying to either come up with the physical delivery mechanism or the index that everybody trusts to be right is really hard.”
Thank you for testing out the beta @whoy3k . If anyone would like to test it out join discord and just let me know.
https://t.co/Ap2R64VJM7
Excited to keep building this out. This early in the process and goal is to continue refine and make progress everyday.
I have more ideas that I will continue to share with you all.
Just got early access to @TrionTrades !
$TRION’s Compute Perp Beta. Building a real market around GPU-hour pricing is a wild idea and compute is starting to get the attention it deserves. The team even sent me real $USDG test funds to try the platform. Now that's what I call 'building progress' in the open!
My first impression: "The platform is better than expected! I can't believe I'm this early!"
We're literally paying beta testers.
Get $20 in USDG plus ETH for gas to trade the CMPT-USD perps beta on Robinhood Chain main net.
Join the Discord. Let me know you want to test it and dm an address. Then I will add you to the beta testing group.
https://t.co/LPRpvu9Kkx
I was just given early access to $TRION's Perp Beta for Compute - truly a visionary task to create an options market for as asset that is starting to gain massive attention...
With that being said - was even sent funds to test out the platform and all I can say is 'Impressive'
Started sending out friend requests. If you would like to test it, you could join the Discord and just let me know and I can send you the links for testing.
GM everyone,
The Trion Discord is now open.
Signed up for the beta or have any questions? Join the server. Invites go out by DM from our only official account, Discord username: https://t.co/6Ri9T4o6JM
We'll never ask for keys, seed phrases, passwords or funds. Anyone else is a scammer.
https://t.co/bDtgkcUaTo
GM everyone,
The Trion Discord is now open.
Signed up for the beta or have any questions? Join the server. Invites go out by DM from our only official account, Discord username: https://t.co/6Ri9T4o6JM
We'll never ask for keys, seed phrases, passwords or funds. Anyone else is a scammer.
https://t.co/bDtgkcUaTo