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The median on-demand H100 price was $3.42 per GPU-hour across 40 providers in the week of September 28. CME plans to launch GPU rental futures on October 5, pending regulatory review.
Aethir says ACCELERATE gives access to 10 sites totaling up to 20 MW and projects up to $700 million in contracts by end of 2026. These are company projections, not completed contracts.
Salad published the implementation design for milestone 3 of its Render Network integration, which routes every transaction through the burn-mint-equilibrium model. Customer RENDER payments would go to the customer's own on-chain settlement account.
Salad reports its first customer payment in RENDER on May 28, with milestones 1 and 2 of the RNP-023 integration live: customers can pay in RENDER and Salad Chefs can redeem rewards in RENDER.
Akash says it crossed $5 million in all-time compute spend in Q1 2026, and that AkashML reached 1.7 billion tokens per day on OpenRouter.
Akash reports in its Q1 2026 review that BME went live on mainnet on March 23, alongside the Homenode Beta for consumer GPU owners.