AI RESEARCH
AI Token Futures Market: Commoditization of Compute and Derivatives Contract Design
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2603.21690v1 Announce Type: new As large language models (LLMs) and vision-language-action models (VLAs) become widely deployed, the tokens consumed by AI inference are evolving into a new type of commodity. This paper systematically analyzes the commodity attributes of tokens, arguing for their transition from intelligent service outputs to compute infrastructure raw materials, and draws comparisons with established commodities such as electricity, carbon emission allowances, and bandwidth.